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Email - derek@derekgifford.co.uk

 

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Please take a look at the video links for "Skye Song" and "Valiant Sailor"

The sound quality is lower than on the actual CD

 

 

My Latest CD is now available

 

£11 inc p+p

 

 

 

Songs From The Past...Into The Future

 

Wild Goose Recordings 2015

WGS412CD

Recorded and Produced by Doug Bailey

www.wildgoose.co.uk

 

 

The track list is as follows:

 

1. Nantucket Sleighride

2. Dives and Lazarus

3. Spirit of the Sea

4. Bold Fisherman

5. The Turtle Dove

6. Farewell to the Brine

7. Five Pounds

8. Ellis Island

9. The Cocklers' Song

10. Early One Evening

11. Land and Sea

12. Songs They Used To Sing

13. For The Day

14. Do You Remember

15. Coming In Further

 

Derek Gifford - Guitar, Bowed Psaltery, Vocals

Keith Kendrick - Concertinas, Vocals

Gill Redmond - Cello

Paul Sartin - Oboe, Fiddle

Anna Shannon - Shruti Box, Vocals

Tom & Barbara Brown, Janet Hale, Doug Bailey - Vocals

 

Click HERE for a printable order form

 

 

PREVIOUS RECORDINGS

 

Recording

Track Listing

WINE, BIRDS AND SONG

Fellside  1987

C2048

Cassette - Now Sold Out

Side 1

1. Tailor and the Crow

2. Rigs of Rye

3. Herring Song

4. Dark Island

5. She Moved Through The Fair

6. Ale Of Old England

 

Side 2

1. Wibsey Fair

2. Kent Keer and Lune

3. The Hawk

4. The Minstrel

5. John Kanaka

6. A Mon Like Thee

 

A MIXED CASE

Fellside 1992

FSC6

Cassette - Now Sold Out

 

Side 1

1. Stallion Master

2. Old Miner’s Lament

3. The Falcon

4. Ledbury Parson

5. Owl of Oldham

6. Packhorse Inn

 

Side 2

1. Ripple Away

2. Brisk Young Widow

3. Jan Rebeck

4. Recall

5. Shantyman

6. Farewell Shanty

 

 

MAINLY MARITIME

Cock Robin Music 1996

CRM 9610

CD NOW SOLD OUT

 

1. Benjamin Bowmaneer

2. Sailor

3. Little Boy Billee

4. Unfortunate Tailor

5. South Australia

6. Northwest Passage

7. Haul on the Bowline

8. Brisk Young Widow

9. Solway Shore

10. William Taylor

11. I’m Marching Inland

12. Greenland Whale Fishery

13. Rolling Home

14. Jan Rebek

15. Recall

16. Farewell Shanty

 

 

WHEN ALL MEN SING

Cock Robin Music

CRMCD206

CD - Available from Derek

£11 inc p+p

CD NOW SOLD OUT

 

1. Crabbing

2. The Walling Song

3. When the Nightingale Sings

4. Hedges

5. The Kingfisher

6. The Singers’ Hat

7. Are You Proud Brother?

8. The Watermill

9. The Company Song

10. Ale of Old England

11. Life’s Road

12. Haymaking

13. Affetside Carol

14. Skye Song

15. When All Men Sing

 

Click HERE to view a photo video of "Skye Song" on You Tube

produced by Mike Dodsworth 

 

SAILING BY

Cock Robin Music 

CRMCD050

CD - Available from Derek

£11 inc p+p

 

1. Shanghai Passage

2. Kent, Keer and Lune

3. Old Maui

4. Wild Geese

5. Bosun’s Chair

6. Valiant Sailor

7. Aaron Manby

8. Last Man Leaving

9. Bright Star

10. Old Stan

11. Shantymen Bold

12. Anderson’s Coast   (listen)

13. Leaky Ship

14. Goodbye to the Sea

15. Rockport Farewell

16. Shipping Forecast

17. Sailing By 

Click HERE to view a photo video of "Valiant Sailor" on You Tube

produced by Mike Dodsworth 

 

SUNNY CORNERS

Cock Robin Music 2006

CRM138

CD - Available from Derek

£11 inc p+p

 

1. Sing  With Me Now

2. Colours of Australia

3. Grain & the Grape

4. Isle of May

5. Morley Man/Drovers Song 

6. Old Pendle

7. Bold Librarian

8. Rigs of London

9. Watling Street

10. Bold Grenadier

11. Hard Rock Miner

12. Sunny Corner Mine  (listen)

13. The Land

14. Song For The Road

Birds in Folk Song

Cock Robin Music 2006

CRM148

£6 inc p+p

 

1. The Falcon

2. Dear Sweetheart Come Along *

3. Bold Grenadier

4. Nightingale She Sings

5. Tailor and the Crow

6. The Kingfisher

7. The Blackbird *

8. Wild Geese

9. Isle of May

10. Kent, Keer and Lune

11. Skye Song

12. The Hawk

13. Cold Kestrel *

14. She Moved Through the Fair

15. Owl of Oldham

16. Solway Shore

 

Note: The majority of these tracks have been released on Derek's other recordings apart from those marked *

 

40 Years in Lancashire

Cock Robin Music 2010

CRM213

£11 inc p&p

1. Blow the Man Down

2. Owl of Oldham*

3. Cob-o-Coaling

4. Ellan Vannin

5. Herring Song*

6. Poverty Knock

7. Packhorse Inn*

8. Seth Davy

9. Motorway Song

10. Washday Remembered

11. Greenland Whale Fishery*

12. Tripe Ships of Wigan

13. Pace-egging Song

14. Affetside Carol*

15. A Mon Like Thee*

* These tracks have appeared on previous cassettes which are no longer available or on other CDs. All have been remastered for this recording.

For more information about these CDs please contact Derek on:

01695 625097 (24 hr answer phone)

or by e-mail:   derek@derekgifford.co.uk

Click HERE for a printable order form

 

 

See also 3 Sheets to the Wind page

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