Fellside Recordings


Fellside Recordings is a British independent record label, formed by Paul Adams and Linda Adams in 1976 in Workington, Cumbria, and still run by them.
Paul Adams toured semi-professionally with the Barry Skinner Folk Group in his teens. He and Linda married in 1974. Fellside started as a folk music label. They issued jazz under the name LAKE, and children's records as "small folk". Most of the Fellside catalogue was recorded and produced by Paul Adams. In 2007, BBC Radio celebrated the company with a programme called "30 Years of Fellside". Three of their acts, John Spiers & Jon Boden, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, and Kirsty McGee were nominated for BBC Folk Awards, and two of the acts were winners on the night. The label has won many awards including 12 from the Music Retailers Association. LAKE has won a BT British Jazz Award and Paul Adams was nominated for a BBC Jazz Award.
The Amazon website lists over 130 titles still in print, including albums by Spiers and Boden, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Dr Faustus, 422, Fribo, Hughie Jones, A. L. Lloyd, Peter Bellamy, James Keelaghan, Clive Gregson, The Queensberry Rules, Jez Lowe, Last Orders, Bram Taylor, and Grace Notes. Their anthologies have included songs by Maddy Prior, Richard Thompson, Frankie Armstrong, John Kirkpatrick and Martin Carthy. Fellside, along with Topic Records, are the two most significant and longest serving record labels for traditional music in the UK.
On the jazz side, LAKE Records's roster includes George Melly, Digby Fairweather, Ottilie Patterson, Phil Mason, John Hallam, The Fryer-Barnhart International All Star Jazz Band, The Savannah Jazz Band, Spats Langham, Debbie Arthurs and Keith Nichols.
In 2004, they started reissuing recordings from the defunct jazz label Record Supervision. This included the reissue of albums by Humphrey Lyttelton, Acker Bilk, Alex Welsh, Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Terry Lightfoot, Sandy Brown, and Archie Semple. Singsong described this set of reissues as "A milestone in British jazz". They have a "Vintage" Series as well as a series recorded at the Dancing Slipper Jazz Club in Nottingham in the 1960s.

Discography

LPs

  • FE001 Terry Docherty – Teller of Tales. 1976
  • FE002 The Best of BBC Radio Carlisle's Folk Workshop. 1976
  • FE003 Geoff Purvis – The Border Fiddler. 1976
  • FE004 Dave Walters – Comes Sailing in. 1977
  • FE005 Farmstead – The Sheep & The Hay. 1977
  • FE006 Paul & Linda Adams – Among the Old Familiar Mountains, 1978
  • FE007 The Border Country Dance Band. 1977
  • FE008 Robbie Ellis – Under Beacon's Brow. 1977
  • FE009 Brian Dewhurst – Follow That With Your Sealions. 1977
  • FE010 The Packmen's Blue Album. 1977
  • FE011 Barry Skinner with Geoff Lakeman – Bushes & Briars. 1978
  • FE012 The Wassailers. 1978
  • FE013 Various Artists – Canny Cumberland. 1979
  • FE014 Greg Stephens & Crookfinger Jack – The Beggar Boy of the North. 1979
  • FE015 The Rockytops – Life Can Be Beautiful. 1978
  • FE016 The Gateway Jazzband with George Chisholm. 1979
  • FE017 Roy Harris – The Rambling Soldier. 1979
  • FE018 Steve Turner – Outstack. 1979
  • FE019 Woodbine Lizzie By Numbers. 1979
  • FE020 The Border Dance Band at Gretna Hall. 1980
  • FE021 Colin Thompson – Three Knights. 1980
  • FE022 An Evening With Hoghton Band. 1980
  • FE023 Jez Lowe. 1980
  • FE024 Pat Knowles – Standard Settings. 1980
  • FE025 A Night Out with Woodbine Lizzie. 1981
  • FE026 Gerry Hallom – Travellin' Down the Castlereagh. 1981
  • FE027 Martyn Wyndham–Read – Emu Plains. 1981
  • FE028 Hoghton Band – Dance & Enjoy the Pride of Lancashire. 1981
  • FE029 Rob Gordon's Fourth Caledonian Ball. 1982
  • FE030 Steve Turner – Jigging One Now. 1982
  • FE031 Sara Grey & Ellie Ellis – A Breath of Fresh Air. 1982
  • FE032 Peter Bellamy – Keep On Kipling. 1982
  • FE033 Bobby Eaglesham – Weather the Storm. 1982
  • FE034 Jez Lowe – The Old Durham Road. 1983
  • FE035 Jolly Jack – Rolling Down to Old Maui. 1983
  • FE036 Gerry Hallom – A Run a Minute. 1983
  • FE037 Swan Arcade – Together Forever. 1983
  • FE038 Richard Grainger – Herbs On the Heart. 1984
  • FE039 Sara Grey & Ellie Ellis – Making the Air Resound. 1984
  • FE040 Hoghton Band Play Your Requests. 1984
  • FE041 Bram Taylor – Bide A While. 1984
  • FE042 Steve Turner – Eclogue. 1984
  • FE043 Life & Times – Strawplait & Bonelace. 1984
  • FE044 Roy Harris – Utter Simplicity. 1985
  • FE045 Lancashire Fayre – Not Easily Forgotten. 1985
  • FE046 Rhiannon – Birds of Rhiannon. 1985
  • FE047 Linda Adams, John Bowden, Martin Carthy, Roy Harris, Jez Lowe – A Selection
from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 1985
  • FE048 Threeway Street – Drunkards & Lovers. 1985
  • FE049 Jez Lowe – Galloways. 1985
  • FE050 Various Artists – Flash Company. 1986
  • FE051 Brian Peters – Persistence of Memory. 1985
  • FE052 Mark T & The Brickbats – Johnny There. 1986
  • FE053 Ian McGillivray – Rolling Home. 1986
  • FE054 Swan Arcade – Diving for Pearls. 1986
  • FE055 Jez Lowe & Jake Walton – Two a Roue. 1986
  • FE056 Jill & Bernard Blackwell – Adventures of Notion. 1986
  • FE057 Bram Taylor – Dreams & Songs to Sing. 1986
  • FE058 Steve Turner – Braiding. 1987
  • FE059 Anonyma – Burnt Feathers. 1987
  • FE060 Ian Walker – Flying High. 1987
  • FE061 Patti Reid. 1987
  • FE062 Zydeco Ceilidh Band. 1987
  • FE063 Ken Campbell – Going Solo. 1988
  • FE064 Marilyn Middleton Pollock – Nobody Knows You. 1988
  • FE065 Dave Goulder – The Man Who Put the Engine in the Chip Shop. 1988
  • FE066 Alasdair Robertson – Friends & Companions. 1988
  • FE067 Jolly Jack – A Long Time Travelling. 1988
  • FE068 Bisiker & Romanov. 1988
  • FE069 Strangefolk – Unhand Me You Bearded Loon. 1988
  • FE070 Jez Lowe – Bad Penny. 1988
  • FE071 Life & Times – Shropshire Iron. 1989
  • FE072 Cockersdale – Doin' the Manch. 1989
  • FE073 Ian Walker – Shadows in Time. 1989
  • FE074 Gerry Hallom – Old Australian Ways. 1989
  • FE075 Bram Taylor – Taylor Made. 1989
  • FE077 Phil Hare – Living On Credit. 1990
  • FE079 Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies – Briefly On the Street. 1990

    CDs (up to FECD100)

  • FECD3 Geoff Purvis – The Border Fiddler
  • FECD27 Martyn Wyndham-Read – Emu Plains 25th Anniversary Reissue Series
  • FECD34 Jez Lowe – The Old Durham Road
  • FECD47 Linda Adams, John Bowden, Martin Carthy, Roy Harris, Jez Lowe – A Selection From The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 1985
  • FECD61 Patti Reid. 1987
  • FECD70 Jez Lowe – Bad Penny
  • FECD72 Cockersdale – Doin' the Manch 25th Anniversary Reissue Series
  • FECD76 Ian Bruce – Blodwen's Dream. 1990
  • FECD78 Classic Anne Briggs. 1990
  • FECD79 Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies – Briefly On the Street. 1990
  • FECD80 Gill Bowman – City Love. 1990
  • FECD81 Hughie Jones – Hughie's Ditty Bag. 1991
  • FECD82 Hamish Bayne & Martin Cole – Making Music. 1991
  • FECD83 Mick Bisiker – Home Again. 1991
  • FECD84 Martyn Wyndham-Read – Mussels On a Tree. 1991
  • FECD85 Ian Bruce – Out of Office. 1992
  • FECD86 Marilyn Middleton Pollock – A Doll's House. 1992
  • FECD87 Various Artists – Voices, English Traditional Songs. 1992
  • FECD88 Ian Walker & Setanta – Crossing the Borderlines. 1993
  • FECD89 Jez Lowe – Backshift. 1992
  • FECD90 The Paul Brennan Band – Fire in the Soul. 1993
  • FECD91 Wizz & Simeon Jones – Late Nights & Long Days. 1993
  • FECD92 Bram Taylor – Further Horizons. 1993
  • FECD93 Christine Kydd – Heading Home. 1993
  • FECD94 Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies – Bede Weeps. 1993
  • FECD95 The Ragtime Millionaires – Making A Million. 1993
  • FECD96 Edgerton Layhe – Rough & Tumble. 1993
  • FECD97 John Wright – Ride the Rolling Skies. 1993
  • FECD98 Classic A. L. Lloyd. 1994
  • FECD99 Heather Innes – Coanineadh, Songs from the Heart. 1994
  • FECD100 Various Artists – Banklands. 1994

    CDs (FECD101 to FECD200)

  • FECD101 Cockersdale – Been Around for Years. 1994
  • FECD102 Martyn Wyndham–Read – Sunlit Plains. 1994
  • FECD103 Pete Oakley – Ghost in the City. 1995
  • FECD104 Sisters Unlimited – No Bed of Roses. 1995
  • FECD105 Classic Peggy Seeger ft Tom Paley. 1996
  • FECD106 The John Wright Band – The Things We've Handed Down. 1996
  • FECD107 Sandra & Nancy Kerr – Neat and Complete. 1996
  • FECD108 Dick Wardell – Street Life Blues. 1996
  • FECD109 The Ragtime Millionaires – Life Is Good Sometimes. 1996
  • FECD110 Various Artists – Ballads. 1997
  • FECD111 Bob Fox & Benny Graham – How Are You Off for Coals? 1996
  • FECD112 Lucky Bags – Food for Thought. 1996
  • FECD113 The Rufus Crisp Experience – Chickens Are A–Crowing. 1997
  • FECD114 Rick Kemp – Escape. 1997
  • FECD115 Martyn Wyndham–Read – Beneath a Southern Sky. 1997
  • FECD116 Frankie Armstrong with John Kirkpatrick & Maddy Prior – Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn. 1997
  • FECD117 Gordeanna McCulloch – Sheath & Knife. 1997
  • FECD118 Keith Kendrick – Home Ground. 1997
  • FECD119 Voice Union. 1997
  • FECD120 Bram Taylor – Pick of the Grinner. 1997
  • FECD121 The John Wright Band – Other Roads. 1997
  • FECD122 Bob Davenport & The Rakes – The Red Haired Lad. 1997
  • FECD123 Cockersdale – Wide Open Skies. 1997
  • FECD124 Bob Fox & Stu Luckley – Box of Gold. 1997
  • FECD125 John Kirkpatrick & Others – Wassail! 1997
  • FECD126 Grace Notes – Red Wine & Promises. 1998
  • FECD127 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Starry Gazy Pie. 1997
  • FECD128 Keith Hills – Recovery. 1997
  • FECD129 Gordon Tyrrall – A Distance from the Town. 1998
  • FECD130 Peggy Seeger with Irene Scott – Almost Commercially Viable. 1998
  • FECD131 Various Artists – Fyre & Sworde, Songs of the Border Reivers. 1998
  • FECD132 Ushna – Twice Brewed. 1998
  • FECD133 Rick Kemp – Spies. 1998
  • FECD134 Steve Tilston – Solorubato. 1998
  • FECD135 John Conolly & Pete Sumner – Trawlertown. 1998
  • FECD136 Simon Haworth – Coast to Coast. 1998
  • FECD137 Sandra Kerr, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Scalene. 1999
  • FECD138 Lucky Bags – Delight in Disorder. 1999
  • FECD139 Buz Collins – Water and Rain. 1999
  • FECD140 Jolly Jack & Others – Rolling Down to Old Maui. 1999
  • FECD141 Clive Gregson – Happy Hour. 1999
  • FECD142 Kathy Stewart – Celestial Shoes. 1999
  • FECD143 Johnny Silvo & Diz Disley – Blues in the Back Yard. 1999
  • FECD144 Frankie Armstrong – Garden of Love. 1999
  • FECD145 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Steely Water. 1999
  • FECD146 Martyn Wyndham–Read and No Man's Band – Beyond the Red Horizon. 1999
  • FECD147 Hughie Jones – Seascape. 1999
  • FECD148 The Bram Taylor Collection – Singing! 1999
  • FECD149 Mad Pudding – Grand Hotel. 1999
  • FECD150 Tryckster – When the Stone Is Exposed. 1999
  • FECD151 Frankie Armstrong – Lovely On the Water. 2000
  • FECD152 Sandra Kerr – Yellow, Red and Gold. 2000
  • FECD153 422 – One. 2000
  • FECD154 Alistair McCulloch – Highly Strung. 2000
  • FECD155 Peta Webb & Ken Hall – As Close As Can Be. 2000
  • FECD156 Various – Flash Company Celebration 25 years Fellside 1976–2001, 25th Anniversary Reissue Series.
  • FECD157 Martyn Wyndham–Read and No Man's Band – Where Ravens Feed. 2001
  • FECD158 Various Artists – Voices in Harmony, English Traditional Songs. 2001
  • FECD159 Bram Taylor – Fragile Peace. 2001
  • FECD160 Swan Arcade – Round Again 25th Anniversary Reissue Series. 2001
  • FECD161 John Spiers & Jon Boden – Through and Through. 2001
  • FECD162 Peter Bellamy – Mr Bellamy, Mr Kipling and the Tradition 25th Anniversary Reissue Series. 2001
  • FECD163 Grace Notes – Anchored to the Time. 2001
  • FECD164 Clive Gregson – Comfort & Joy. 2001
  • FECD165 Little Johnny England. 2001
  • FECD166 Little Johnny England – Merc & Cherokees. 2001
  • FECD167 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Between the Dark and Light. 2002
  • FECD168 Altar Native – Cumbria Odyssey. 2002
  • FECD169 Clive Gregson – Carousel of Noise. 2002
  • FECD170 Kirsty McGee – Honeysuckle. 2002
  • FECD171 422 – New Numbers. 2003
  • FECD172 Simon Haworth – Taking Routes. 2003
  • FECD173 A.L. Lloyd – England & Her Traditional Songs. 2003
  • FECD174 Andy May – The Yellow Haired Laddie. 2003
  • FECD175 John Spiers & Jon Boden – Bellow. 2003
  • FECD176D Various Artists – Song Links, A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and their Australian variants
  • FECD177 Dr Faustus – The First Cut. 2003
  • FECD178 FolkESTRA North. 2003
  • FECD179 Alistair McCulloch – Wired Up. 2003
  • FECD180 The Witches of Elswick – Out of Bed. 2003
  • FECD181 Benji Kirkpatck – Half a Fruit Pie. 2004
  • FECD182 Various Artists – Fanfare for the South West. 2003
  • FECD183 Bram Taylor – The Night Is Young. 2004
  • FECD184 Clive Gregson – Long Story Short. 2004
  • FECD185 Ed Rennie – Narrative. 2004
  • FECD186 Jon Loomes – Fearful Symmetry. 2005
  • FECD187 Peter Bellamy – Fair Annie. 2004
  • FECD188 The Hoghton Band Collection – A Selection of English Country Dances. 2005
  • FECD189 Dr Faustus – Wager. 2005
  • FECD190D Various Artists – Song Links 2, A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and their American variants. 2005
  • FECD191 422 – Major Third. 2005
  • FECD192 Spiers & Boden – Tunes. 2005
  • FECD193 Maddie Southorn – The Pilgrim Soul. 2005
  • FECD194 Spiers & Boden – Songs. 2005
  • FECD195 Kieron Means – Far As My Eyes Can See. 2005
  • FECD196 Sara Grey – A Long Way From Home. 2005
  • FECD197 Martyn Wyndham–Read and No Man's Band – Oceans in the Sky. 2005
  • FECD198 Hughie Jones & Friends – Liverpool Connexions. 2005
  • FECD199 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Strands of Gold. 2006
  • FECD200 James Keelaghan – Then Again. 2006