Burning Bright
The Life & Music of Ashley Hutchings

Free Reed Music FRQCD-50 (4CD, UK, 2005)

Quando la Free Reed si muove, fa sempre le cose in modo eccellente: questo nuovo cofanetto dedicato ad Ashley comprende 4 cd e un voluminoso libretto curato da Nigel Schofield. I cd contengono molte rarità tratte dagli archivi, mentre il booklet è corredato da interviste, una storia del musicista e molte fotografie.

 

Tracks CD 1 - Ashley's Almanac: A Hutchings History (FRCD 51)

 

Ashley Hutchings & Friends: Working Underground (3:56) Unreleased recording (2004) - Ashley Hutchings: Coming in to Land (0:47) from A Word in Your Ear (1991) - Judy Dunlop & Barry Coope: This Blessed Plot (4:16) from Human Nature (2003) - Albion Country Band: New St George / La Rotta (4:23) live recording (1973) - Albion Band: Albion Heart (4:51) live recording (1995) - Ashley Hutchings Big Beat Combo: Telstar (4:34) from Twangin' n' a-Traddin' (1994) - Ashley Hutchings & Friends: Eternal Circle (3:35) live at Shaftesbury Hall (1989) - Fairport Convention: It Takes a Lot to Laugh (excerpt) (1:50) live, June 1968 (1968) - Fairport Convention: Mr Lacey (2:50) from What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) - Fairport Convention: Come All Ye (5:00) from Liege and Lief (1970) - Steeleye Span: One Night As I Lay on My Bed (3:30) from Hark! The Village Wait (1971) - Albion Band: Albion Sunrise (2:55) from Battle of the Field (1976; rec. 1973) - Albion Band: Poor Old Horse (6:34) live at Loughborough (1978) - Albion Band: Time to Ring Some Changes (3:10) radio session, Stockport (1982) - Albion Band: Along the Pilgrim's Way (4:50) from Demi Paradise (1996) - Albion Band: The Party's Over (6:13) from 1990 (1990) - Ashley Hutchings All Stars: Angelina (5:40) live recording (1988) - Ashley Hutchings & Friends: Abandoned Love (4:29) live at Shaftesbury Hall, Winchester (1989) - Albion Band: Wings (4:26) single version (1998) - Rainbow Chasers: About Dawn (5:35) from Some Colours Fly (2005)

 

Tracks CD 2 - Dance and Drama: Ashley on Stage (FRCD 52)

 

Albion Dance Band: Dancing Till Monday Comes Around (4:10) live recording (1988) - Morris On Band: Gloucester Hornpipe / Mr Trill's Song (6:07) live at Huntingdon Hall (June 18, 2004) - Albion Christmas Band: Cecil Sharp on Morris (excerpt) (1:42) from An Albion Christmas (2003) - Morris On Band: Staines Morris (3:13) from Morris On (1972) - Albion Band: Tunes from Terpsichore (1:20) live recording (1979) - Bernard Hepton: William Prynne, Histriomastix (edit) (0:33) from The Compleat Dancing Master (1974) - Fairport Convention: The Lark in the Morning Medley (4:07) from Liege and Lief (1969) - Steeleye Span: Dowd's Favourite / £10 Float / The Musical Priest (3:24) BBC Radio, John Peel (September 15, 1971) - Albion Country Band: Princess Royal (2:33) live recording (July 4, 1972) - The Morris On Band: Shepherd's Hey / Orange in Bloom / The Quaker (5:14) live at Huntingdon Hall (June 18, 2004) - Michael Hordern: Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz (edit) / The Sawdust Band: High Level Hornpipe (1:46) from The Compleat Dancing Master (1974) - Albion Band: Spirit of the Dance / Shooting (4:11) Italian concert (1981) - Ashley Hutchings: Cup o' Tea vs. Batter Pudding (0:32) from A Batter Pudding for John Keats (1996) - The Ashley Hutchings Dance Band: Rapid Polka (2:30) from A Batter Pudding for John Keats (1996) - Albion Band: Soldier's Joy (3:33) live in Cheltenham (1990) - Ashley Hutchings Big Beat Combo: Twistin' til Monday Comes Around / Twistin' Welsh Girls (4:32) from Twangin' n' a-Traddin' (1994) - Ashley Hutchings All Stars: Ring on Her Finger (4:08) from By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept (live) (rec. 1988) - Ashley Hutchings All Stars: To Ireland I Made My Way (3:31) from By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept (live) (rec. 1988) - The Albion Band: The Elements Lament (2:18) from Key to the North (1988) - Albion Band: We Sing Allelujah (2:33) from The Passion (live archive recording) (1981) - Ashley Hutchings: Rattlebone (edit) (3:30) from Rattlebone & Ploughjack (1976) - Albion Band: Wooden O (5:50) from Happy Accident (1998) - Shirley Collins and the Albion Band: Murder of Maria Marten (7:31) from No Roses (1971)

 

Tracks CD 3 - Authored by Ashley, Produced by Hutchings! (FRCD 53)

 

Ashley Hutchings: On Seeing Grace Slick Unexpectedly in a 1987 Television Rock Spectacular, live recording (1990) - Fairport Convention: If It Feels Good You Know It Can't Be Wrong, BBC session (1969) - The Ashley Hutchings Dance Band: Dancing to the Drummer's Beat, from A Batter Pudding for John Keats (1996) - Albion Band: Crocodile Line, from Albion Heart (1993) - Albion Band: When My Son Is Grown, from Road Movies (2001) - Albion Band: Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump, from The Guv'nor's Big Birthday Bash (1995) - Albion Band: The Rose and the Rock, live at Cambridge (1983) - Albion Band: Press Gang, from 5 (2001) - Albion Band: Nothing Can Turn the Tide, from Christmas Album (1999) - Albion Band: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, from Under the Rose (1984) - Emily Slade: Our Stolen Season, from Human Nature (2003) - Albion Band: We Lie, from The Guv'nor Vol 1 (1993) - Albion Band: Brief Encounters, from The Guv'nor's Big Birthday Bash (1995) - Albion Band: Ivory Tower, from Demi Paradise (1996) - Albion Band: Kitty Come Down the Lane, from Give Me a Saddle, I'll Trade You a Car (1989) - Ridgeriders: Along the Downs, live recording (1993?) - Rainbow Chasers: Brambles on a Hill, from Some Colours Fly (2005) - Nesreen Shah: I'm a Poor Dress-Maker, from Street Cries (2001) - Martin Carthy: Lovely Joan, from Because It's There (1979) - Keith Christmas: Bargees (excerpt), from Love Beyond Deals (1996) - Judy Dunlop: The Crow and the Cradle, from My Arms Are a Cradle (1999)

 

Tracks CD 4 - Trad. arr. Hutchings: The Folk-Rock God (FRCD 54)

 

Steeleye Span: A Calling-On Song, from Hark! The Village Wait (1971) - Albion Band: Appalachian Front-Porch Game, archive recording (1995) - Ashley Hutchings: Pine Mountain (excerpt), from An Evening with Cecil Sharp and Ashley Hutchings, specially recorded for this set (2005) - Cecil Sharp Centenary Collective: Matty Groves, from As I Cycled Out on a May Morning (2003) - Fairport Convention: The Deserter, from Liege and Lief (1969) - John Tams, Coope Boyes & Simpson: Doin' Time to Fit Your Crime, from Street Cries (2001) - Albion Band: Rambleaway, from 1990 (1990) - Albion Band: Didn't He Ramble, archive recording (1993) - Albion Band: Gallant Poacher, from Battle of the Field (1973) - Morris On Band: Jack-in-the-Green on Saturday Night, from Great Grandson of Morris On (2004) - Shirley Collins: Hopping Down in Kent, session recording (1976) - John Tams: Hopping Down in Kent, live recording, London (1977) - Morris On Band: Cuckoo's Nest, from Morris On (1972) - Albion Band: Broomfield Hill, from Stella Maris (1987) - Steeleye Span: Captain Coulston, from Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1971) - Albion Band: Flandyke Shore, from Acousticity On Tour (1993) - Albion Band: Wolf, archive live recording (1990) - Albion Band: Rebecca Johnson, from Albion Heart (2001) - Albion Band: He Ran Out of Road, from Road Movies (2001) - Various Artists: Claudy Banks, from 100 Years of British Folk Music radio broadcast - Albion Band: Somerset Wassail (excerpt), from An Albion Christmas (2003)


Bonus CD 5 - Visions of the Daughters of Albion (FRCD 55)

Fairport Convention with Judy Dyble: One Sure Thing (2:56), from Fairport Convention (1968) - Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny: Reynardine (4:31), from Liege and Lief (1969) - Steeleye Span with Gay Woods & Maddy Prior: The Dark-Eyed Sailor (3:12), from Hark! The Village Wait (1970) - Steeleye Span with Maddy Prior: Prince Charlie Stuart (4:17), from Please to See the King (1971) - Shirley Collins & Albion Dance Band: Fair Maid of Islington (2:52), live recording (1976) - June Tabor: London Waterman (2:00), from Albion River Hymn (live) (1981) - The Albion Band with Cathy Lesurf: Beware of Blue (6:31), live recording (1983) - Polly Bolton: I Dreamed a Dream (3:20), from By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept (live) (rec. 1988) - Elaine Morgan: Singers Are in Short Supply (3:00), demo tape (1989) - Judy Dunlop: Woodlands of England (4:47), from Sway With Me (1991) - The Albion Band with Julie Matthews: Jewel in the Crown (3:43), live recording (1995) - The Albion Band with Chris While: Man in a Bottle (3:05), live recording (1995) - The Albion Band with Kellie While: The Star (4:07), from Christmas Album (1999) - Kathryn Roberts: Seeds of Love (4:09), BBC Radio broadcast: 100 Years of British Folk Music (1999) - Gillie Nicholls: The Potter's Dream (5:02), from Before Us Stands Yesterday (1999) - The Cecil Sharp Centenary Collective with Emily Slade: Appalachian Front-Porch Game (4:20), from As I Cycled Out on a May Morning (2003) - Jo Hamilton: It Is Not for the Want of Will (2:57), unreleased recording from the Some Colours Fly (2005) recording sessions (2004) - Diane Walmisley, Polly Bolton and Chris While: Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (6:11), from The Guv'nor's Big Birthday Bash (1995)