Tracklist

A1

Among The New Mown Hay (Cylinder Recording)

A2

Sharp Arrives And Observes Starlings

A3

Among The New Mown Hay

A4

Hutchings Introduces Sharp

A5

Bushes And Briars (Cylinder Recording)

A6

Sharp Avoids Being Killed By A Gypsy

A7

Banks Of The Nile

A8

Sharp Illustrates The Evolution Of A Folk Song On A Bicycle Wheel

A9

Sharp Opens His Case And Relates Its Contents

A10

Whistled Jig (Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson And Dave Whetstone Play A Jig, Learnt From The Cylinder Recordings, On Three Guitars)

A11

Hutchings Reveals A Catalogue Of Sharp's Illnesses

A12

The Cylinder Recording Of The Previous Jig, Whistled By "As Good A Whistler As Ever Cocked A Lip''

A13

Sharp Finds His Lunch And Holds Forth On Vegetarianism, Politics, Collecting Folk Songs And The Acceptance Of Popularisation

A14

More Cylinder Whistling

A15

Sharp Extols The Virtues Of Bicycle Travel And Meets A Bird-starver

A16

Hutchings Offers An Opinion On Moulding Music To Suit Its Audience's Taste

A17

Rambling Sailor

A18

Sharp Muses On John Short And The Sea

A19

Rambling Sailor (Cylinder Recording)

B1

Richard Digance And British Telecom Decide That Sharp Has Slept Enough

B2

Sharp Continues Where He Left Off, Then Moves On To Pipe-smoking Idiosyncrasies In The Appalachians

B3

Black Joke

B4

Hutchings On The Disagreement Between Sharp And Mary Neal

B5

Cylinder Recording By Sharp Of Herefordshire Fiddler John Lock Playing A Hornpipe

B6

Sharp Believes That Fiddlers Are A Strange Breed And Illustrates Why

B7

All My Chickens Have Gone

B8

Sharp Relates More Adventures In The Appalachians

B9

The Banks Of Green Willow

B10

Sharp, The Delighted Botanist, Gives Way To Sharp, The Sad Loser Of Three Dead Colleagues

B11

Turtle Dove

B12

Sharp Laments The Passing Of Old-fashioned Songs And Kindly Manners

B13

Turtle Dove (Cylinder Recording)

B14

Turtle Dove

B15

Hutchings Sums Up And Gets Himself Off The Hook

B16

Among The New Mown Hay

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