tracks 1 - 12 produced by joe boyd and tod lloyd for witchseason productions
recorded at sound techniques, london. engineer john wood
tracks 13 & 14 produced by joe boyd for witchseason productions
track 14 was released as the a-side of fairport convention's first single, track records 604020, q.v.
track 13 was likely recorded between judy dyble's departing and sandy denny's joining fairport
tracks 15 & 16 produced by fairport convention
recorded live saturday 27/4/1968 in a french television studio for the ''bouton rouge'' programme.
judy dyble lead vocals, electric & acoustic autoharps, recorder, piano
tyger hutchings bass guitar, jug
martin lamble percussion, violin
ian macdonald lead vocals, jews harp
simon nicol vocals, 12 & 6 string electric & acoustic guitars
richard thompson vocals, lead electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin
thanks to clare lowther 'cello
tristran fry vibraphone on if i had a ribbon bow
distributed with a folded, colour-printed paper flyer advertising all thirteen of the ten fairport convention and three richard and linda thompson ''island remasters'' campaign cd albums (art# faircon3) (- one of which is in fact this ''polydor remaster''), and bearing a peelable black-on-cream label advertising ''classic/ fairport / convention /remastered with/bonus tracks and/sleeve notes by/ashley hutchings''