WildGoose Records

06/04/2026

Some samples from an old album 1996 which I have made available again as a digital download from my website with notes and artwork. Lovely performances and arrangements.

07/03/2026

John Waltham album Farewell to the Green Fields recorded in 2003. I am trying to get hold of a playable copy of this album. Both the CDs I have tried have degraded and are covered in noise. Does anyone have a digital copy taken from CD or a playable CD?

21/02/2026

21/02/2026

Sound clips from the album All in Due Course - songs of Roger Watson sung by various artists. Available from WildGoose.co.uk as CD or Download.

16/02/2026

Samples from the Rosie Upton album Threads and Yarns. Due to be release on 27th February

13/02/2026

Time to share some clips from the Roger Watson song album. The album will be available early next week from my website as a CD and a download. Here is the link to Youtube

Songs by Roger Watson by various artists

11/02/2026

I have just finished the new album for Rosie Upton which has gone to the pressers. It will be released at the Tradsing weekend on the 27th February. It will be available from Rosie and also on my website as a CD. It will also be avaialble as a high quality download with all the paperwork and notes from the WildGoose website.

31/01/2026

I am in the last stages of finishing an album, All in Due Course, of Roger Watson songs sung by various singers. As many of you know Roger has been at the heart of folk music for 50 years now and has written some fantastic new songs and has also made some traditional songs reflect todays environment. For starters here is the list of songs and the singers :-
1)Tides: Patakas
2)The Manchester Angel: Sarah Matthews and Doug Eunson
3)Black Cloud: Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham
4)Back to the Kitchen: Lynn Heraud and Pat Archer
5) Nottingham Miners: Brian Peters
6)John Kanaka: Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham.
7)Catherine Shaw: Sarah Matthews.
8)The Navvy’s Tombstone: Roger Watson (recorded live, 1983)
9)When This Old Hat Was New: Jim Causley
10)New Oysters/ Watercress-O: Sound Tradition.
11)Spencer: Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham
12)Thomas Handley: Moose Rosser.
13)Barleycorn: Patakas.
14)The Girl With the Blue Dress On: Lynn Heraud and Pat Archer.
15)Night Visiting Song: Sound Tradition.
16)Lovers’ Leap.
17)Lay the Bent: Sarah Matthews and Doug Eunson.
18)The Lights of Home: Sound Tradition.
19)Dawn Chorus: Roger Watson and Mike Draper (recorded live, 1984)

More soon

19/09/2024

WildGoose will be bringing the show
Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk – Songs & Stories of Sabine Baring Gould
to Wherwell on 23rd of October at The Home guard Club in the village. The club is on The Old Hill, Wherwell, Andover SP11 7JB.
Tickets are available at £16 via Jim’s site at:-
https://www.jimcausley.co.uk/product/wherwell-23-october/

More details of the show:-
Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk – Songs & Stories of Sabine Baring Gould
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes are joined by narrator John Palmer in a show to celebrate the centenary of Sabine Baring-Gould, through extracts from his writing and the folk songs he collected and that meant so much to him.
Sabine was an astonishing and often overlooked celebrity of the Victorian era. A pioneer of folk song collecting – inspiring Cecil Sharp to follow in his footsteps ten years after him, he was also one of the Victorian’s best-selling-novelists and composer of the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers, with a tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Of all of his achievements, Sabine wrote, ‘To this day I consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been the principle achievement of my life’. He interleaved folk songs he’d collected and wove real people and events into his fiction, to give it life. And that’s what Jim and Miranda do in the show, with the help of narrator John Palmer.
Six time BBC Folk Award nominee Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes from the Award winning Show of Hands and Daphne’s Flight will be singing some songs Sabine collected, and maybe new ones, in this show for Halloween. Narrator John Palmer will interweave these with highlights of Sabine’s own astonishing life and anecdotes and stories from his impressive array of best-selling-books.
The Rev. Baring-Gould was one of the top ten best-selling Victorian novelists; the writer of a bloodthirsty book on werewolves; author of a nerve-tingling book of ghost stories and the compiler of the finest Dartmoor history book. A man of contrasts and contradictions, he died in 1924 and our tribute aims to make the audience smile, gasp and sing along to an entertaining and engaging show. Songs he collected run through all his books and you’ll hear how:
A penny whistle saved a mother lost in a life-threatening snowstorm (Three Drunken Maidens)
A ragamuffin fiddler’s favourite tune lived on in his instrument after he died (Bold General Woolf)
A cottage was built in a day on the moor for a newly married couple ( Cottage Well Thatched with Straw)
The eerie mysteries of Wil O’ The Wisp (The Blue Flame)
And ….. how Sabine became Sherlock Holmes’s God Father.

Watch short Trailer
https://studio.youtube.com/video/Ao_9dbajxuw/edit

or for longer background to the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1dAZnEQYBg

29/02/2024

New album 'An Outbreak of Cats' I wanted to let you know about a new album of Folk Dance/Social Dance tunes written by Derek Shaw and played by some wonderful musicians, namely Becky Price (piano accordion and piano), Richard Heacock (violin and viola), Matt Coatsworth (violin) and Richard Cox-smith (slide guitar). Derek writes tunes in many different styles and this album has both English and European style, waltzes, jigs, mazurkas, marches, hornpipes and even one lament. The tunes were chosen and arranged by Becky Price from Derek’s published tune book, ‘The Lockkeeper’ which contains 90 of his new folk tunes.

I put together this short set of samples from the album and the pictures are from cartoons in Derek's book 'The Lockkeeper'. Hope you enjoy the samples and go on to buy the album but I would be grateful anyway if you 'like' my website so I can let you know about new releases.