The Bonny Bunch of Roses is an album by Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

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This album had the highest number of traditional songs that Fairport had recorded since Liege and Lief. For this album, Simon Nicol returned after an absence of five years although he had contributed some guitar to the previous record, Gottle O'Geer

Gottle O'Geer

Gottle O'Geer is the eleventh studio album by English folk rock band Fairport Convention...

and mixed the album. It was recorded between August 1976 and March 1977 at Island Studios, London.

Track listing

All tracks credited to "Trad."

Traditional music

Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...

 unless otherwise noted

Side one

1. "James O'Donnells Jig" (Dave Pegg
   Dave Pegg
   Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...
   
   ) - 2:33
2. "The Eynsham Poacher" - 2:22
3. "Adieu Adieu
   The Newry Highwayman
   "The Newry Highwayman" is a traditional Irish folk song about a criminal's life, deeds, and death. It is also found in England, Scotland, the USA and Canada. The earliest known broadside is from about 1830 . Some versions mention "Mansfield" and this is sometimes taken to be William Murray, first...
   
   " - 2:26
4. "The Bonny Bunch of Roses
   The Bonny Bunch of Roses
   "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" , also called "Bonaparte's Retreat", is an English folk song.The earliest known version of the tune is in William Christie's "Tradition Ballad Airs" , but there is another tune, of Irish origin. There is an obvious difficulty in identifying the narrator's voice...
   
   " - 12:19

Side two

1. "The Poor Ditching Boy" (Richard Thompson) - 3:56
2. "General Taylor" - 3:39
3. "Run Johnny Run" (Ralph McTell
   Ralph McTell
   Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....
   
   ) - 4:34
4. "The Last Waltz" (Dave Swarbrick) - 3:02
5. "Royal Seleccion No 13" (Haste to the Wedding/Morpeth Rant/Toytown March/Dashing White Sargeant) - 4:15

Personnel

• Dave Swarbrick
  Dave Swarbrick
  Dave Swarbrick is an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as 'the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none' and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British, and many World folk violin players that have followed him...
  
   - fiddle, mandolin, mandocello
  Mandocello
  The mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa . It is to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.-Construction:Mandocello construction is similar to the...
  
  , vocals
• Simon Nicol
  Simon Nicol
  Simon John Breckenridge Nicol is a guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founder member of British folk rock, or electric folk group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band...
  
   - electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, dulcimer, piano
• Dave Pegg
  Dave Pegg
  Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...
  
   - bass guitar, guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Bruce Rowland
  Bruce Rowland (drummer)
  Bruce Rowland is an English rock drummer best known for his memberships of The Grease Band and folk rock band Fairport Convention. He is also a prolific session musician.-Early career:...
  
  - drums, percussion, electric piano