''Yuletracks'' is a
studio album
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released in 1986. A
folk music
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Christmas music
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project by Greenwich Village Records, various artists appear on the album, led by
Martyn Wyndham-Read
Arnold Martyn Wyndham-Read (born 23 August 1942, Crawley, Sussex, England) is an English folk singer, who was a collector and singer of Australian folk music. He lived and worked in Australia from 1958 to 1967 and was subsequently a regular vis ...
(who also was co-producer of the album) and
Martin Carthy
Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later ar ...
. 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
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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
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.
Track listing
# "O'Little Town of Bethlehem" - 3:16
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* John: Accordion and vocals
#* Martin: Guitar, vocals
#* Sue: Dulcimer, Vocals
# "Rose of Sharon" - 2:54
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* Maggie: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitars
#* John: Melodeon
# "On Christmas Night" - 1:36
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* Maggie: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitars, Vocals
#* John: Concertina, Vocals
# "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" - 4:08
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* Maggie: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitars
#* Sue: Dulcimer
# "Away in a Manager" - 2:49
#* John: Concertina
#* Maggie: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitars
#* Sue: Vocals
# "We Three Kings" - 3:12
#* Martyn, John and Martin: Vocals
#* John: Accordion
#* Martyn: Guitar
# "Good King of Wenceslas" - 3:34
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* John: Accordion
#* Martin: Guitars
#* Phil: Fiddle
# "I Saw Three Ships" - 1:54
#* Maggie: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitars
#* Sue: Vocals, Dulcimer
# "In the Bleak Midwinter" - 3:10
#* John: Vocal, Concertina
#* Martin: Guitar
# "Once In Royal David's City" - 4:29
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitar
#* John: Concertina
#* Phil: Fiddle
# "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" - 2:42
#* Martyn: Vocals
#* Martin: Guitar, Vocals
#* John: Melodeon, Concertina, Vocals
#* Maggie: Vocals
#* 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,
[''Yuletracks'' CD back cover] despite the CD being a single side disc containing the material from both sides.
References
Phil Beer albums
1986 albums
Martin Carthy albums
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