Includes a printed inner sleeve with lyrics & credits.
Nonesuch Records Inc., a Warner Music Group Company, 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
℗ & © 2025 Nonesuch Records Inc., under exclusive license from Es Paranza Recordings Ltd.
Made in the Czech Republic.
[Inner sleeve:]
A1. Memphis Minnie Music Company (ASCAP), UniChappell Music, Inc. (BMI), Donovan (Music) Ltd, PRS: Songs of Peer Ltd (ASCAP)
A2. W O S Music (BMI)
A3. Bob Mosley Music (BMI)
A4. Alpha Music (BMI)
A5. Art Boat Publishing (ASCAP); BMG Monarch (ASCAP)
B1., B5. Sons of Einion Ltd (ASCAP)
B2. Up The Meadow Creek Road Music (ASCAP)
B3. Red Request Music (BMI)
B4. 1238 Music (BMI)
Recorded at Monnow Valley Studios; Es Paranza, Worcestershire;
Rectory Farm Barn, Cotswolds and Stonehill Barn, Worcestershire
Mixed and mastered at Top Cat Studio, Bath
Additional mastering at Sterling Sound, Edgewater, NJ
Lacquer cutting at Sterling Sound, Nashville, TN
* The Roud Folk Song Index - a database compiled by [a2823571] of traditional English language folk songs from around the world. The Roud Inxex includes the Broadside Index (printed sources and early recordings before 1920) and combines references from other databases including the Index of Laws Ballads ([url=/artist/2198664]G. Malcolm Laws[/url]) and The Child Ballads ([a6095691]), collection of 19th century ballads).
i. [Track A1] Originally written and recorded by [a307235] and [url=/artist/307455]Kansas Joe McCoy[/url] as 'Can I Do It For You', released September 1930. [url=/artist/1153168]Ed[/url] and [a1347984] later wrote and recorded a version in 1959, released in 1960 as 'Chevrolet'. The [url=/artist/3421782]Donovan Leitch[/url] adaptation was released as 'Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)' in 1965.
ii. [Track A2] Older titles include 'Seventeen Come Sunday', 'The Trooper and the Maid' (Child 299, believed to be a variation of the theme) and dating further back to 1790 as 'A Waukrife Minnie', collected by [url=/artist/624922]Robert Burns[/url] and published in the Scots Musical Museum.
iii. [Track B1] The earliest official publication was 1905 in Songs Of The West by [url=/artist/931719]S. Baring Gould[/url] under the title 'The Drowned Lover'. It first appeared as 'Captain Digby's Farewell' printed in 1671 and applied to music in 1676 by Robert Smith.
iv. [Track B5] Alternative titles include 'Hold On' and 'Keep Your Hand On The Plough' ('Plow'). The earlies reference of lyrics and
music appear in the 1917 book English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians, collected by Cecil J. Sharp. The first recording was released in October 1930 by the Hall Johnson Negro Choir.
This is just a fraction of the references we found on the origins of these traditional songs.
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