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The Wild Side of Town
The Albion Band with Chris Baines
The great strength of Ashley Hutchings and the Albion Band has always been in marrying the voices of our largely
rural past to the innovative sounds of new urban music. They have created a style which has always been a beacon for anyone
with a love of British traditional music - be they performers or audience. Chris Baines felt the Albion Band were the ideal
musicians to write and perform the music for his TV. series, The Wild Side of Town, since he too is trying
to bring the best of traditional British countryside into the spaces of our modern towns and cities.With this album, Ashley,
Chris and the Albion Band have combined their talents to create all these new songs which celebrate the wildlife that
lives in towns, highlighting the pressure it is under in a very inspiring way.
Cathy Lesurf, vocals, bodhrán and tambourine;
Phil Beer, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddle, mandolin, vocals;
Eric
Hine, keyboards;
Ashley Hutchings, bass guitar;
Trevor Foster, drums, percussion;
Chris Baines, vocals, spoons;
with
Bill & Pete Zorn, backing vocals;
Brass on Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer: Paul Nieman, trombone; Andy
Grappa, tuba; Pete Whyman, clarinet;
Steve Waterman, trumpet
Tracks 1, 10 Cathy Lesurf Track 2 Cathy Lesurf arr. Eric Hine Track 3 words Ashley Hutchings, tune Cathy Lesurf
arr. Eric Hine Tracks 4, 7 Phil Beer Tracks 5, 13 Chris Baines Track 6 words Ashley Hutchings, tune Cathy Lesurf Track
8 words Ashley Hutchings, tune Dave Whetstone Track 9 words Ashley Hutchings, tune Phil Beer Track 11 new lyric adaption
Cathy Lesurf; original tune Jimmy McHugh, original words Harold AdamsonTrack 12 words Chris Baines, tune Cathy Lesurf arr. Eric Hine
Chris Baines' book The Wild Side of Town, published by BBC/Elmtree.
The Wild Side of Town is a BBC Programme Title and is used with the BBC's consent.
Recorded at Magritte Studios, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, September 1987
Engineered and produced by Eric Hine
Photo
David W. Macdonald
Design: Sean Clark and Dave Bulmer
Industrial scene: Wendy de Russet
Chris Baines
Chris Baines is a tireless champion of urban wildlife, who has done a great deal to bring city people closer to the nature
on their doorstep. With his books and T.V. programmes he has converted millions to the idea of wildlife gardening, and The
Wild Side of Town has taken that campaign over the fence and into the parks and open spaces beyond.
Chris built the first wildlife garden ever allowed at Chelsea Flower Show in 1985. In the same year his TV programme
Bluetits and Bumblebees, and his book,
How to Make a Wildlife Garden, inspired millions of people to begin gardening with wildlife. His other books include four story books for young children
- The Old Boot, The Picnic, The Flower and The Nest. The Wild Side of Town, which accompanied a five-part
TV series of the same name, won the UK Conservation Book Prize in 1987. In the same year Chris recorded this album with
the Albion Band and then toured the UK, raising money for the British Wildlife Appeal.
Through most of the late '80s and early '90s Chris focused on TV broadcasting, and presented The Big E, Countryfile, Saturday Starship, Pebblemill at One and several other networked series. His investigative environmental series for
children, The Ark, won the International Wildscreen Award in 1987. In 2000, he presented Charlie's Wildlife Gardens
with Charlie Dimmock. Chris is one of the UK's leading environmental campaigners, and has particularly championed the cause
of trees. He lead the fight to prevent Cable TV and other utility companies chopping through the roots of urban street trees,
has promoted the concept of urban forestry in the UK, and been principal adviser to Trees of Time and Place. This millenium
campaign encouraged as many people as possible to gather seeds from a favourite tree, grow a seedling and plant it for the
future. Trees of Time and Place is supported by over 100 national organisations, and has inspired many tens of thousands of
individuals and over 2,000 schools to grow their own trees from local seeds. Chris is committed to urban wildlife and wildlife
gardening. He works from home in Wolverhampton, is president of the Urban Wildlife Partnership and vice-president of The Wildlife Trusts. In 1998 he was appointed by the Prime Minister as a trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Harvest Anthem
Butterfly Galliard /
Falling Star
I Was The Child
Another World In
The Night
Fox On The Rails /
Dance Of The Starlings
My Beautiful Bomb Pit
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CD Bonus Track
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Why Have You Stolen Our Earth? (3:52)
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related internet links
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an independent group
from the UK that promotes
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the largest international wetland
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Founded in 1946 by the
artist and naturalist
WWT has 9 visitor centres
around the UK,
where people can get closer to
wetland birds and enjoy spectacular
wetland landscapes.
Britain's Wildlife
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