Tracklist

  • 1
    The Hewer
    Tommy Gilfellon with Alastair Anderson, Colin Ross & Johnny Handle
    2:54
  • 2
    Doon the Wagon Way
    Johnny Handle
    1:26
  • 3
    A Miner’s Life
    Tommy Gilfellon
    3:44
  • 4
    I Wish Pay Friday Wad Come
    Tommy Gilfellon with Johnny Handle & Colin Ross
    3:25
  • 5
    The Auchengeich Disaster
    Dick Gaughan with Alastair Anderson
    2:19
  • 6
    The Collier’s Rant
    Johnny Handle with Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
    2:27
  • 7
    Farewell to the Monty
    Johnny Handle with Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
    2:01
  • 8
    The Putter
    Johnny Handle with Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
    2:56
  • 9
    Little Chance
    Tommy Gilfellon with Johnny Handle & Alastair Anderson
    3:05
  • 10
    My Gaffer’s Bait
    Johnny Handle & Colin Ross
    2:25
  • 11
    The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s Wife
    Tommy Gilfellon with Colin Ross, Johnny Handle & Alastair Anderson
    3:31
  • 12
    The Blacking Miners
    Tommy Gilfellon
    1:22
  • 13
    The Miner’s Lockout
    Harry Boardman with Johnny Handle, Colin Ross, Alastair Anderson & Tommy Gilfellon
    3:06
  • 14
    The South Medomsley Strike
    Tommy Gilfellon, Johnny Handle, Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
    3:37
  • 15
    The Durham Lockout
    Tommy Gilfellon with Colin Ross & Alastair Anderson
    6:24
  • 16
    Aa’m Glad the Strike’s Done
    Johnny Handle, Alastair Anderson & Colin Ross
    3:08
  • 17
    The Collier’s Pay Week / Cut and Dry Dolly / Success to the Coal Trade / My Lad is o’er Bonny for the Coal Trade
    Tommy Gilfellon, Colin Ross & Alastair Anderson
    5:47
  • 18
    I’ll Have A Collier
    Harry Boardman
    2:03
  • 19
    The Stoneman’s Song
    Johnny Handle
    1:28
  • 20
    The Hartley Calamity
    Tommy Gilfellon
    4:41
  • 21
    Bonnie Woodha
    Dick Gaughan
    3:28
  • 22
    The Banks of the Dee
    Johnny Handle & Colin Ross
    4:58
  • 23
    The Bonnie Pit Laddie
    Colin Ross & Alastair Anderson
    4:16
  • 24
    The Bonnie Pit Laddie
    Johnny Handle with Colin Ross, Alastair Anderson & Tommy Gilfellon
    1:53

More by The High Level Ranters, Harry Boardman, Dick Gaughan

Release credits

  • background vocals [1, 9, 11], concertina [1, 5-8, 13-17, 23-24]
  • Northumbrian pipes [15, 17, 23], fiddle [1, 13-14, 16-17], mouth harp [6], mouth organ [10, 24], whistle [4, 7-8, 11, 22]
  • vocal [5, 21]
  • concertina [18], vocal [13, 18]
  • liner notes, accordion [13-14, 16], background vocals [1, 9, 11, 13], diatonic button accordion [1, 4], guitar [2, 10, 19, 22], vocal [2, 6-8, 10, 16, 19, 22, 24]
  • liner notes
  • producer
  • liner notes, photography, background vocals [13], guitar [14, 24], vocal [1, 3-4, 9, 11-12, 14-15, 17, 20]
  • producer, recording, recording

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