Ashley Hutchings. A Guide
 
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Three Influencial Recordings

As I Cycled Out on a May Morning

 
As I Cycled Out on a May Morning
The Cecil Sharp Centenary Collective

Talking Elephant TECD057 (CD, UK, 2003)

Album recorded at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northants, in July and August 2003
Engineer: Mark Hutchinson
New photographs: Ron Eamonson
Old photographs: Cecil Sharp
Booklet design: Malcolm Holmes

Compare this to An Hour With Cecil Sharp and Ashley Hutchings.

the ensemble

Simon Care, melodeon, Anglo concertina;
Ashley Hutchings, vocal, acoustic bass guitar;
Emily Slade, vocal, acoustic guitar, banjo;
Roger Wilson, vocal, fiddle, Appalachian dulcimer, acoustic guitar

with
Brendan Power, harmonica;
Guy Fletcher, drums;
Kellie While, harmony vocals;
Mark Hutchinson, harmony vocals

Cecil Sharp and Ashley Hutchings
Cecil Sharp and Ashley Hutchings
 
tracks
 
1. 100 Years Ago

2. William Taylor

3. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy

4. Country Dance Medley (Philibelua All The Way / Newcastle / Galopede)

5. The Trees They Do Grow High

6. Among the New Mown Hay

7. Crabfish

8. Rose Bud in June

9. Morris Dance Medley (Hunting the Squirrell / Constant Billy / Jockey to the Fair - from the Headington, Oxfordshire, tradition)

10.The Carter
 
Off to America
 
11.  Wife of Usher's Well

12. Appalachian Front-Porch Game

13. Matty Groves
 
Back to the British Isles
 
14. Bride of Kildare
15. 100 Years Ago (reprise)
 
All track Trad. arr. Simon Care / Ashley Hutchings/ Emily Slade / Roger Wilson except
Tracks 1, 15 Trad. / Ashley Hutchings
Track 5 Trad. arr. Emily Slade
Track 8 Trad. arr. Emily Slade / Roger Wilson
Track 11 Trad. arr. Roger Wilson
Track 12 comp. Ashley Hutchings