John Kirkpatrick (b 1947)
English player of the melodeon, concertina and accordion. Also a singer. Plays mainly traditional English dance
tunes.
(John Kirkpatrick has also recorded with The Albion
Band, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, Umps and Dumps,
Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Shirley Collins,
Frankie Armstrong, Roy Bailey, Leon Rosselson, Dan Ar Bras,
Pere Ubu, Viv Stanshall, R Tessi, The Kipper Family, Jon Raven
and Loudon Wainwright III)
Albums.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Jump At The Sun | 1972 |
Trailer | LER 2033
|
| Going Spare | 1978 |
Free Reed | FRR 030 |
|
[Reissued with bonus tracks] | 2008 |
Free Reed | |
|
Concertina Album | 1982 |
April | APR 1003 |
| Three In A Row | 1983 |
Squeezer | SQZ 123
|
| [Reissue] (CD) | 1998 |
Fledg'ling | FLED 3018 |
| Blue Baloon | 1987 |
Squeezer | SQZ 124 |
| Sheepskins |
1988 | Squeezer | SQZ 125 |
|
[Reissue] (CD) | 1993 |
Words and Music | MW 4002 |
| Earthling | 1994 |
Words and Music | MW 4006
|
| Force of Habit (*) | 1996 |
Fledg'ling | FLED 3007 |
| Welcome To Hell
(*) | 1997 |
Fledg'ling | FLED 3010
|
| Blue Balloon | 1998 |
Music and Words | MWCD 4022
|
| One Man and His Box | 1998 |
Music and Words | MWCD 4024 |
| Mazurka Berzerker | 2001 |
Fledg'ling | FLED 3030
|
| The Duck Race: Morris Dance Tunes From Shropshire | 2004 |
Fledg'ling | FLED 3043 |
| Sultans of Squeeze (**) | 2005 | |
|
| Carolling and Crumpets | 2006 | Fledg'ling |
FLED 3060
|
| Make No Bones | 2007 | Fledg'ling |
FLED 3065 |
|
Dance of the Demon Daffodils | 2009 | Fledg'ling |
FLED 3075 |
(* The John Kirkpatrick Band)
(** with Chris Parkinson)
Compilations.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| A Short History Of John Kirkpatrick | 1994 |
Topic | TSCD473
|
Collaboration - Jon Raven, John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris, Gary and Vera Aspey,
Brian Peters and Ian Woods.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The Bold Navigators | 1975 |
Saydisc/Tradition Sound Recordings | TSR 019
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Fellside | FTSR4 |
Collaborations - John Kirkpatrick, Maddy Prior and Sydney Carter.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Lovely In The Dance | 1981 | |
|
Collaborations - Ashley Hutchings and John Kirkpatrick
| Title. | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The Complete Dancing Master (*) | 1974 |
Island | Help 17
|
| [Reissue] | 1976 | Antilles |
AN 7003 |
| [Reissue] |
1984 | Hannibal |
HNBL 4416 |
| [Reissue] |
1984 | Carthage |
CGLP4416 |
| [Reissue] |
2002 | Fledg'ling |
FLED 3038 |
(* Recorded in 1973, released 1974)
Collaboration - Roy Bailey, Martin Simpson and John Kirkpatrick.
| Title. | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Sit Down and Sing | 2005 | |
CFCD406
|
Collaboration - John Kirkpatrick, Rosie Cross, Georgina Le Faux, Michael Gregory,
Jane Threlfall and Carl Hogsden.
| Title. | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Wassail | 1997 | Fellside |
|
Collaboration - Bára Grímsdóttir with Chris Foster & John Kirkpatrick.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| Funi | 2004 |
Green Man |
|
Collaboration - Mike Bosworth with John Kirkpatrick.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| By Chance It Was (*) | ? |
? |
|
(* live at the Eden Project)
Best albums(*).
| Title. | year. |
|---|
| Plain Capers |
1976 |
| Going Spare | 1978 |
(*)Based on critical opinion.
Anthology - Frankie Armstrong, Maddy Prior, Cyril Tawney, The Watersons,
Peta Webb, A.L. Lloyd, Roy Bailey, Linda Adams, Peter Bellamy, Patti Reid, John
Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, Swan Arcade, June Tabor et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
| Voices - English Traditional Songs
| 1992
| Fellside
| FECD 87 |
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Musica Pangaea | MP10004 |
Anthology - Maddy Prior, John Kirkpatrick, Frankie Armstrong, Nic Jones,
Gordeanna McCulloch, John Wright et al.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Ballads | 1997 | Fellside |
|
Anthology, Various artists - The Morris On Band, Chris Parkinson, John
Kirkpatrick, Chris Leslie, Ric Sanders Group, Jim Moray, Ric Sanders Group, Ken
Nicol, Eliza Carthy and Saul Rose, Jim Causley, Show Of Hands, Fairport Convention, et al.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| Mother of All Morris | 2007 |
? |
|
Anthology, Various artists - John Kirkpatrick, Scan Tester, Roger Digby,
Noel Hill et al.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| Anglo International (3 CDs) | 2008 |
Folksound |
|
Various artists - Ralph McTell, The John Kirkpatrick Band, Show of Hands,
the Albion Band, Fairport Convention, Vin Garbutt, Kathryn Tickell, Ron Kavana et al.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| Huntingdon Folk: Folk From Huntingdon Hall |
2002 | Speaking Volumes |
HPR 2003.2 |
Anthology, various artists including John Kirkpatrick.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| Megin - Welsh Accordion Music | 2000 |
Fflach Tradd |
|
Anthology - Various artists including Sara Grey, The Copper Family, John
Kirkpatrick, Norma Waterson, Louis Killen. Martin Carthy, Nancy Kerr, Martin
Wyndham-Read et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
|---|
| Song Links (2 CDs) | 2001 |
Fellside | FECD176D |
Anthology - Various artists including Sara Grey, The Copper Family, John
Kirkpatrick, Benji Kirkpatrick, The Devil's Interval, Emily Portman, Jim
Causley, Martin Wyndham-Read et al .
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
|---|
| Song Links 2 (2 CDs) | 2005 |
Fellside | FECD190D |
Anthology - John Kirkpatrick, Scan Tester, Phil Tanner, Grace Notes, Lal Waterson et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
| Midwinter |
2006 | Free Reed | FRQCD 30 |
Session recordings.
| Performer. | Title | year. | Label. | number |
|---|
| Tony Rose | Young Hunting | 1970
| | |
| Tony Rose | Under The Greenwood Tree | 1971 | | |
| BBC Radio | Squeezing Around the World | 1991 | | |
| Richard Thompson | Daring
Adventures | 1986 | | |
| Richard Thompson | Mirror Blue | 1994 | | |
|
Bara Grimmsdorrit | Funi |
2005 | Green Man |
GMCD002 |
Book of tunes - "English Choice" has two related 2 CDs.
| Title. | year. | Label.
|
|---|
| Orlando's Return | 2003 |
|
| Garrick's Delight | 2003 |
|
Singles.
| Title. | year. | Label.
| number |
|---|
| Jogging Along With My Reindeer/ King Neptunes Lament | 1979 |
Dingles
| SID 226 |
DVDs.
| Title
| year.
| Label.
|
| How To Play the English Melodeon |
2008?
|
|
Popular downloads.
| Title. |
|---|
| Fits and Starts |
|
Old King Coal |
|
Brighton Camp/ The March Past |
|
Annan Side |
|
Cheshire Hornpipe |
|
A Lord of Steam and Iron |
|
Blue Eyed Stranger/ Willow Tree |
Album tracks.
Sheepskins Running time: 69 minutes 19 seconds. Recorded 1988,
released on CD in 1993. John Kirkpatrick plays
solo on every track, varying between one-row melodeon, two-row melodeon, treble
anglo concertina, baritone anglo concertina and bass anglo concertina.
Title. | Author.
|
| 1. Last Night with Archie(Aboyne Water) | Trad
|
| 2. Three Jolly Black Sheepskins | Trad
|
| 3. Mad Moll (Mad Moll of the Cheshire Hunts)/ The Lively Jig | Trad/
Trad
|
| 4. Over The Moon (Applecore)/ Bonnets So Blue | Sue Harris/ Trad
|
| 5. There's No Doubt About It (Grafting In The Drencher)/ Beating The Oak | Sally Turner/ John Kirkpatrick
|
| 6. Dick The Welshman | Trad
|
| 7. Medley (a) Todley Tom (The Staffordshire Hornpipe) (b) The Blue Eyed Stranger (c) Waterddy Lane (d) The Tun Dish (e) The Maiden's
Prayer (Rickett's Hornpipe) | (a) Trad (b) Trad
(c) John Kirkpatrick (d) JK (e) Trad
|
| 8. Turn Again Martha/ Churning Butter | Sue Harris/ Sue Harris
|
| 9. The Abram Circle Dance | Trad
|
| 10. The Raddled Tup/ Hunting The Squirrel | John Kirkpatrick/ Trad
|
| 11. Not For Joe | Trad
|
| 12. Medley (a) Four Lane End (b) Cocking The Chafer (c) Threepenny Ha'penny Treacle | John Kirkpatrick/ JK/
JK
|
| 13. Martha's Cornet or The Evening Star | Sue Harris
|
| 14. Three Hand Reel (Cock of The North)/ The Green & Yellow Handkerchief (Greensleeves)/ | Trad/ Trad
|
| 15. The Prince Of Wales (The Prince of Wales At Brighton)/ The Morning Star | Trad/ Trad
|
| 16. Half a Farthing Candle (The Girl I Left Behind Me)/ The Hindley Circle Dance (Albert Farmer's Polka) | Trad/
Trad
|
Last updated on 07/12/2010