Don't Call Her After Midnight

Date: 2004

Don’t Call Her After Midnight is a collection of 13 eclectic songs and tunes played by The Michèle Welborn Band. The album reflects their current live performance and repertoire. The pieces reflect both the contemporary and traditional musical backgrounds of the players, and move easily through vibrant rhythm, flowing lyricism and haunting melody.

The title track which opens the album clearly defines the quality and individuality of the contemporary material you are about to hear. Later tracks such as 'Stand Up Song', 'On Saturday' and 'A Fine Madness' verify the musical integrity of the band’s performance.

Traditional material such as 'Johnny’s Gone For A Soldier' and 'Rolling Of The Stone', alongside 'Mad Head' and 'When My Morning Comes Around' illustrate the band’s ability to move comfortably between musical styles.

Track List...

1. Don’t Call Her After Midnight
2. Johnny’s Gone For A Soldier
3. Stand Up Song
4. Rolling Of The Stone/Goat’s Head Brawl
5. Fly
6. Breakfast Time
7. Mad Head
8. Forest Song
9. On Saturday
10. When My Morning Comes Around/Canal En Octobre
11. A Fine Madness
12. Silver Bourrée/The Jeweller’s Song
13. Cotton Mill Girls

Samples...

1. Rolling Of The Stone
2. Fly
3. Stand Up Song

Tongue And Groove

Tongue And Groove MWCD01

Date: 1998

Tongue And Groove is Michèle’s first solo album, produced by Andy Glass. This is a collection of traditional and contemporary songs including some of Michèle’s own pieces: ‘If These Walls Had Ears’, ‘Song For A Dead Lover’ (preceding Charlie’s Jig by Sarah Malleson), and ‘My Man’. The musicians on the album are Stéafán Hannigan, Chris Walshaw, Phil Harnett, Chris Jewell and Andy Glass.

Track List...

1. Cold And Raw
2. If These Walls Had Ears
3. Bad Wine
4. Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
5. My Man
6. Blacksmith
7. Mathew Hooper
8. Song For A Dead Lover/Charlie’s Jig
9. Blue Cockade
10. No Courage In Him
11. Sligo Fair
12. River Rising

Samples...

1. Cold And Raw
2. River Rising
3. Song For A Dead Lover

Jigby History

Jigby 79-99

Date: 1999

A reunion album in memoriam to the late band member Jim Brough who was also a founder member of the Holmfirth Folk Festival. Michèle sings ‘Benjamin Bowmaneer’, ‘Geordie’, ‘Cotton Mill Girls’ and ‘Jock Stewart’. The other musicians are Huw Evans, Pete Jones, Peter Pozman and Lindsay Wilson, who live, and play music, in and around the Holmfirth and Huddersfield area.

Track List...

1. A Dalesman’s Litany
2. Benjamin Bowmaneer
3. The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
4. Trombone Song
5. Flash Company
6. Geordie
7. Innocent Hare
8. The Man From Uncle (Kuriakin/Lumps Of Plum Pudding)
9. Little Piecener
10. The Hermit’s Prophecy/Thro ‘t’ Shuttle Ee
11. Cotton Mill Girls
12. Jock Stewart

Samples...

1. Benjamin Bowmaneer