Cover THE BIG SESSION - VOLUME 1 (CD) 31 August 2004
TRACKS:

John Barleycorn (Traditional)

3'42"

Whitehaven (Brett Sparks / Rennie Sparks)

2'46"

Lowlands (Traditional)

4'02"

Country Life (Steve Knightley)

5'11"

Fuse (Eliza Carthy)

4'31"

Ten Thousand Miles / Hungarian March (Traditional)

5'33"

The New Jerusalem (Minnie Cooper / Jim Eanes)

2'21"

When That Helicopter Comes (Brett Sparks / Rennie Sparks)

2'55"

The House Carpenter (Brett Sparks / Rennie Sparks)

3'20"

The Cuckoo's Next (Traditional)

5'15"

We Shall Come Home (Ian Telfer)

4'33"

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Peter Hook / Ian Curtis / Bernard Summer / Stephen Morris)

3'22"

Factory Girl (Traditional)

6'19"

Country Life (" I Like To Rise" ) (Traditional / Norma Waterson)

4'35"

The Cornish Farewell Shanty (Traditional)

2'17"

ISSUES:
UK (CD) Westpark Music 87105 (31 August 2004)

GERMANY

(CD) Westpark Music 87105 (20 September 2004)

CANADA

(CD) True North Records TND 356 (22 March 2005)

Recorded Live on:

18, 19 and 20 May 2004 with a small audience at Bush Hall, London by The Blue Mobile

Sound Engineers:

Jim Hurst and Andrew Tulloch

Production Manager:

Phil Nicholas

Produced by:

Rob Keyloch

Mixed by:

Rob Keyloch at Church Walk Studios, London except Track 10 mixed by Jim Moray

Executive Producer:

Rob Challice

Mastered at:

Sound Mastering, London

Photographs & Packaging Design:

David Angel and David Newton

Produced for:

Westpark Music, Cologne

Oysterband Personnel:

Chopper

Bass Guitar, Cello, Vocals

John Jones

Vocals, Melodeon

Lee Partis

Drums, Vocals

Alan Prosser

Guitars, Kantele, Vocals

Ian Telfer

Violin, Viola, Vocals

with

 

Phil Beer (Show Of Hands)

Mandolin, Violin, Vocals

Eliza Carthy

Vocals, Violin

Ben Ivitsky

5-String Viola, Vocals

Steve Knightley (Show Of Hands)

Vocals, Mandocello, Quattro

Jim Moray

Vocals, Piano, Guitar

James O'Grady

Uillean Pipes, Whistles, Violin, Vocals

Brett Sparks (Handsome Family)

Vocals, Guitar

Rennie Sparks (Handsome Family)

Vocals, Banjo

June Tabor

Vocals

and

 

Rose Kemp

Backing vocals on " Fuse" , " Ten Thousand Miles" and " The Cornish Farewell Shanty"

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