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A-1	The Wensleydale Lad Backing Vocals – Jim Eldon, Lal Waterson, Maria Gilhooley*, Norma Waterson	3:25
A-2	The Brisk Lad	2:04
A-3	The Two Brothers	0:51
A-4	The Man O' War	2:42
A-5	The Charlady's Son	2:03
A-6	The Light Dragoon Backing Vocals – Jim Eldon, Lal Waterson, Maria Gilhooley*, Norma Waterson, Rod Stradling	2:50
A-7	The Cruel Ship's Carpenter	4:34
A-8	Bye Bye, Skipper Backing Vocals – Jim Eldon, Lal Waterson, Maria Gilhooley*, Norma Waterson	0:52
B-1	Tamlyn	10:51
B-2	Lord Rothschild	1:27
B-3	Swansea Town Backing Vocals – Jim Eldon, Lal Waterson, Maria Gilhooley*, Norma Waterson, Rod Stradling	4:18
B-4	Seven Yellow Gypsies	4:09

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Riverside Studios, London
• Printed By – Shorewood Packaging

Credits

• Arranged By – Waterson*
• Liner Notes – A.L. Lloyd*
• Photography By – Davey O'Donnell*
• Producer, Sleeve [Design] – Tony Engle
• Recorded By – John Gill
• Vocals – Mike Waterson
• Written-By – Traditional

Notes

Sleeve notes:

Mike Waterson. He comes from Hull and now lives on a farm on the North Yorkshire moors with his singing sisters and their families. Admirers of the Watersons group (and who, hearing them sing, is not?) know Mike's tone as a most valuable ingredient in their fine and peculiar ensemble sound. But we're not so used to Mike solo, the naked voice, as offered on this record. What we hear is a unique singer with a sly approach to a song, at first disconcerting, then utterly convincing, whether it's a music-hall bit or a big classic ballad. No cheating here, no mock sincerity or false geniality. Just the bloke himself with that dark yellow voice (and what a handsome colour it turns out to be, once you're used to it) and that arrow-straight sense of what make a song really tell. Here's Mike Waterson, then. Enjoy then.

[A.L. Lloyd]

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: mcps
• Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): 532-A
• Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): 532-B

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
TSCD516	Mike Waterson	Mike Waterson ‎(CD, RE)	Topic Records	TSCD516	UK	1999