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Released
  
1986 (vinyl)2011 (CD)

Yuletracks(1986)
  
Show of Hands(1987)

Producer
  
Martyn Wyndham-Read

Label
  
Greenwich Village

Release date
  
1986

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Recorded
  
September 1985 – March 1986

Artists
  
Martin Carthy, Phil Beer, John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris, Martyn Wyndham-Read

Genres
  
Folk music, Christmas music

Similar
  
Phil Beer albums, Folk music albums

Yuletracks is a studio album released in 1986. A folk music/Christmas music project by Greenwich Village Records, various artists appear on the album, led by Martyn Wyndham-Read (who also was co-producer of the album) and Martin Carthy. Though not all of the albums' artists appear on every track, every artist appears on more than one track. It was recorded in September 1985 to March 1986. It got a re-release on CD in 2011 (its 1986 release was vinyl only). Brian Snelling engineered the album, with George Peckham cutting the album at Portland Studios. Chris Groom was responsible for the albums' artwork and cover.

Almost everyone on the album was in, or has worked with, the Albion Band.

Track listing

  1. "O'Little Town of Bethlehem" - 3:16
  2. Martyn: Vocals
  3. John: Accordion and vocals
  4. Martin: Guitar, vocals
  5. Sue: Dulcimer, Vocals
  6. "Rose of Sharon" - 2:54
  7. Martyn: Vocals
  8. Maggie: Vocals
  9. Martin: Guitars
  10. John: Melodeon
  11. "On Christmas Night" - 1:36
  12. Martyn: Vocals
  13. Maggie: Vocals
  14. Martin: Guitars, Vocals
  15. John: Concertina, Vocals
  16. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" - 4:08
  17. Martyn: Vocals
  18. Maggie: Vocals
  19. Martin: Guitars
  20. Sue: Dulcimer
  21. "Away in a Manager" - 2:49
  22. John: Concertina
  23. Maggie: Vocals
  24. Martin: Guitars
  25. Sue: Vocals
  26. "We Three Kings" - 3:12
  27. Martyn, John and Martin: Vocals
  28. John: Accordion
  29. Martyn: Guitar
  30. "Good King of Wenceslas" - 3:34
  31. Martyn: Vocals
  32. John: Accordion
  33. Martin: Guitars
  34. Phil: Fiddle
  35. "I Saw Three Ships" - 1:54
  36. Maggie: Vocals
  37. Martin: Guitars
  38. Sue: Vocals, Dulcimer
  39. "In the Bleak Midwinter" - 3:10
  40. John: Vocal, Concertina
  41. Martin: Guitar
  42. "Once In Royal David's City" - 4:29
  43. Martyn: Vocals
  44. Martin: Guitar
  45. John: Concertina
  46. Phil: Fiddle
  47. "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" - 2:42
  48. Martyn: Vocals
  49. Martin: Guitar, Vocals
  50. John: Melodeon, Concertina, Vocals
  51. Maggie: Vocals
  52. Phil: Fiddle

With 6 songs on side one and the remaining 5 on side two on the vinyl, the back cover of the CD version maintains the "side one" and "side two" column titles on the back cover, despite the CD being a single side disc containing the material from both sides.

References

Yuletracks Wikipedia
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