This album was recorded mostly outside, always in secluded and secret places, by streams and rivers and in the woods and sometimes in a little bungalow.

Credits

Tunes 1, 5, 7 and 9 were written by Roo
(“Magpies’ rest”, “Watling Street”,”blind horse” and “Emperor”)

Tunes 2,3,4,6,8, and 10 are traditional songs from way back when, by unknown (or half-guessed-at) composers

(More information is available about each song individually)

This album was recorded, produced, arranged, mixed (and what have you) by Roo

Roo played:
Guitar, banjo, singing, flutes, accordion, melodica, percussion, piano.

[NB Mark Knott plays a spot of pibgorn in the instrumental section of Tune 10 (“Wassail song”)
and he also sings backing on Tune 4 “Petition for the Pigs of Kent’}
[also on that same song is my pal Connor F. who just sort spoke some of the words and I managed to record him!]

I would like to thank Aoibheann Devlin for encouraging me to seek out the folk songs from Kent,
And also thanks be to Nick Andrews, who was my music teacher when I was a little lad many years ago, and who surely helped me at such an influential stage.

And thanks be to my parents too, for their many kindnesses.

[album cover was drawn and designed by Roo. its a drawing of Nantosuelta.]

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If you navigate to Bandcamp, hover over the song titles, and click on ‘lyrics’ of each song individually, you will find not only the lyrics but also some more information about the song.

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Released: June 27, 2023

License: All Rights Reserved