Ashley Hutchings

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Cuckoo's Nest 04:33 Tools
Upton-Upon-Severn Stick Dance 03:12 Tools
Tom Long's Post 02:43 Tools
Le Halle Place 02:36 Tools
Little Johnny England 02:19 Tools
Princess Royal 03:27 Tools
Horatio 01:40 Tools
Four Up 04:45 Tools
Sweet Jenny Jones 03:50 Tools
He's Young but He's Growing 04:56 Tools
Jupiter's Return / Bold Eric / Tailor's Buttons 04:51 Tools
High Level Hornpipe/Uncle George's 04:56 Tools
Black Joke 02:36 Tools
Staines Morris 03:13 Tools
I'll Go And 'List For A Sailor 02:20 Tools
The Life Of A Fool 02:06 Tools
Doing Time to Fit Your Crime 04:06 Tools
Shepherds' Hey/Orange In Bloom/The Quaker 05:20 Tools
Morris Call 02:10 Tools
Greensleeves 01:46 Tools
Shepherd's Hey / Orange In Bloom / the Quaker 05:03 Tools
The Nutting Girl 02:35 Tools
The Blue-Eyed Stranger / Curly-Headed Ploughboy 04:33 Tools
Haste To The Wedding/The Triumph/Off She Goes - Medley 06:31 Tools
The Gallant Hussar 03:19 Tools
Vandals Of Hammerwich 01:05 Tools
I'll Go 'List For A Sailor 02:25 Tools
Morris Off 01:01 Tools
Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket 04:33 Tools
A Drummer Won My Love 02:41 Tools
The Snake 02:39 Tools
Endless Pages 03:00 Tools
Damn the Day 03:22 Tools
Willow Tree/Bean Setting/Shooting 03:46 Tools
Young Henry Martin 04:16 Tools
Garland Gay 02:26 Tools
He Ran Out of Road 04:20 Tools
Glorishears 02:52 Tools
Salford Girls 04:17 Tools
This Is The Morris My Friend 02:05 Tools
Nutting Girl (Song And Tune) 04:41 Tools
May Song 04:18 Tools
Gloucester Hornpipe / Mr Trill's Song 06:32 Tools
These Cold Lips 03:24 Tools
Three Jolly Burglars 04:26 Tools
Four Up Reprise 01:23 Tools
The Oak 03:33 Tools
Highland Mary 03:25 Tools
The Shape of a Girl 04:52 Tools
Saturday Night / Bobbing Joe / Beaux Badby 03:01 Tools
Brambles On A Hill 04:56 Tools
He Sits There 00:41 Tools
Monck's March 02:53 Tools
Winster Processional 00:56 Tools
Lads A Bunchum/Young Collins 03:06 Tools
Willow tree/Bean Setting 03:52 Tools
Saturday Night/Bobbing Joan/Beaux Badby 03:04 Tools
Old Hog Or None 01:15 Tools
Gloucestershire Hornpipe/Mr. Trill's Song 06:09 Tools
As I Was Going To Banbury 01:23 Tools
Saturday Night 02:20 Tools
8Th Of July/Glory Of The West 04:59 Tools
The Lollipop Man 03:41 Tools
The Old Cotswold Legbar 03:36 Tools
Ring on Her Finger 04:08 Tools
Pint Pots Dance 02:22 Tools
Bring Your Fiddle 02:17 Tools
Stand Quite Still 03:55 Tools
The Beginning of the World 01:45 Tools
Keep You Warm 04:33 Tools
The Postman's Knock 01:53 Tools
Leapfrog 03:03 Tools
Old Tom Of Oxford/Webley Twizzle 04:07 Tools
The Happy Man 03:02 Tools
Ladies of Pleasure 01:39 Tools
Haste To The Wedding/The Triumph/Off She Goes 06:31 Tools
Prologue - I Dreamed a Dream (Died for Love) 03:02 Tools
The Field And The Farm 02:57 Tools
Tom O Vickers/The Knife Edge 03:53 Tools
The Gallant Hussar/Valentine 05:17 Tools
I'm A Poor Dress Maker 03:36 Tools
Barham Down/The Yellow Joak/Thego !Of London City 05:29 Tools
Sailor's Horse Tune 03:13 Tools
Roasted Woman/Under The Old Myrtle Tree/Morning Star/Billy Boy/Banks Of The Dee 05:39 Tools
Bonnets So Blue 01:51 Tools
Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance Tune 02:56 Tools
Lads A'Bunchum, Young Collins 03:07 Tools
Just Human Nature 04:00 Tools
Brief Encounters 06:32 Tools
Who Knows Where The Time Goes 04:30 Tools
Dancing Under the Rose - Again 00:00 Tools
Willow Tree, Bean Setting, Shooting 03:52 Tools
Y'Acre Of Land 03:34 Tools
Constant Bobby 02:42 Tools
Tam Lin 07:49 Tools
Ten Reasons Why They Should Be Together 00:40 Tools
Cotswold Tune 02:58 Tools
Don't Look Back 00:00 Tools
Don't Clear That Corner Away 03:10 Tools
Mock Morris 03:24 Tools
If There's No Other Way 05:22 Tools
Sulgrave Air/Shepherds Hey 05:04 Tools
Swaggering Gathering 03:45 Tools
Sir Roger de Coverley 00:00 Tools
The Morris Reel/London Pride 05:58 Tools
We Walked in God's Country 03:45 Tools
Art Nouveau 00:00 Tools
Blue eyed stranger/Curly-headed ploughboy 04:35 Tools
Bonny Breastknot/Double Lead Through - Medley 02:38 Tools
He's Young But He's Growing (feat. Cara Dillon, Sam Lakeman & Seth Lakeman) 04:56 Tools
Banbury Bill/Shepherds hey 04:17 Tools
Lies 04:35 Tools
Our Stolen Season 03:54 Tools
Roasted Woman/Rigs Of Marlow/Getting Upstairs 00:00 Tools
Turn the Lathe Gently 03:21 Tools
The Hare's Maggot 02:43 Tools
Fieldtown Processional/Glorishears 02:50 Tools
In the Cafe 03:46 Tools
You Never Know Where We Have Been 03:46 Tools
Jockey To The Fair/Room For The Cuckolds 02:36 Tools
What! Must I Know Make an Enemy/Under the Rose 05:22 Tools
At the Women's Institute Dance/Flower Arranging 05:22 Tools
A Letter/Small Town Romance 05:22 Tools
Ring O'Bells 02:41 Tools
No Surrender (Live) 03:46 Tools
Good King Henry 03:00 Tools
This Blessed Plot 04:19 Tools
Rockery Rock 03:12 Tools
Ye Wild Morris/The Wild Morris 01:39 Tools
Gloucester hornpipe/Mr. Trill's song 04:35 Tools
Gloucester wassail 03:18 Tools
God bless the master 02:59 Tools
The King 02:29 Tools
My father played the melodeon 02:03 Tools
At The May Day Celebrations 00:00 Tools
A Patch of Earth 04:02 Tools
I Don't Go Dancing Anymore 02:50 Tools
Harvest Will Come 04:32 Tools
Swaggering Boney 01:22 Tools
Rosebud In June 02:26 Tools
Stanley's wake 05:27 Tools
Love, Stuff and Nonsense 02:26 Tools
The Woodlands of England 04:46 Tools
Westonbirt Sonnet/ T Stands For Thomas 02:48 Tools
Bonny Breastknot/Double Lead Through 02:38 Tools
Washing Day 02:33 Tools
Welcome to the dance kitchen 00:30 Tools
Epilogue - Died For Love 02:59 Tools
My Dear Friend/ Dives and Lazarus - The Blacksmith 02:48 Tools
My Dearest/To Ireland I Made My Way 02:48 Tools
The Godley Hill Set 00:00 Tools
First Day At T'mill 02:44 Tools
Rattlebone 18:47 Tools
The Rose 00:00 Tools
Bonny Green Garters 00:00 Tools
Sway With Me 05:48 Tools
London Pride 03:30 Tools
Kitty Come Down The Lane 03:30 Tools
You Are What You Eat 03:59 Tools
Fieldtown Processional / Glorishears 02:48 Tools
Angelina 05:57 Tools
Jack-In-The-Green On Saturday Night 04:08 Tools
Happy The Age 00:00 Tools
To Ireland I Made My Way 03:30 Tools
L.I.B./Hayeswood Reel 03:19 Tools
Shepherds' Hey / Orange In Bloom / The Quaker 17:04 Tools
Ploughjack 17:04 Tools
Jockey to the Fair / Room for the Cuckolds 02:38 Tools
Doing Time to Fit Your Crime (feat. Barry Coope, Jim Boyes & John Tams) 03:06 Tools
No Surrender 04:03 Tools
Under The Old Myrtle Tree/Morning Star/Billy Boy/Banks Of The Dee 00:00 Tools
Albion Sunrise 02:54 Tools
Every Year When The Wakes Come Along 05:22 Tools
The Fireman's Song 04:19 Tools
Thomas' Morris/Postman's Polka 02:44 Tools
Ring O' Bells 02:29 Tools
Since love was charmed away 04:21 Tools
Ken's Hornpipe 03:55 Tools
Albion Heart 04:58 Tools
Fretful Porcupine 03:06 Tools
Haste to the Wedding / The Triumph / Off She Goes 02:44 Tools
Speed the Plough 01:22 Tools
Merry Sherwood Rangers 04:08 Tools
Lay Down Your Weary Tune 02:44 Tools
Roasted Woman / Rigs of Marlow / Getting Upstairs 03:06 Tools
Ye Wild Morris / The Wild Morris 01:40 Tools
Winster Morris Reel 00:00 Tools
Pierce the Screen 05:57 Tools
Fisherman's Priest 02:20 Tools
Dumfries & Galloway / Regatta 03:16 Tools
Bonny Breastknot / Double Lead Through 03:16 Tools
The Romaunt Rose (excerpt) 04:02 Tools
The Rock and Roll Waltz 03:04 Tools
Saturday Night/Bobbing Joe / Beaux Badby 03:06 Tools
No Juliet Dreaming 05:50 Tools
Banbury Bill /Shepherds' Hey 04:16 Tools
Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump/Head-Smashed-in Reel 05:22 Tools
The Electric Guitar Is King 00:00 Tools
The Dashing White Sergeant/The Devil Among The Tailors - Medley 03:57 Tools
Spyder Walk 05:15 Tools
Hanging Tree 02:56 Tools
The Dashing White Sergeant - The Devil Amongst The Tailors 00:00 Tools
All the ills of Mankind 00:39 Tools
Statipipes - Percusion Bridge - Trotto 04:21 Tools
Avona and the Giant 04:21 Tools
Barley Break - Cushion Dance 03:04 Tools
Working Underground 03:55 Tools
I Dreamed A Dream 03:55 Tools
The Gardener's Bonny Daughter 04:45 Tools
Nellie's Hornpipe /Greenhouse Jig 04:04 Tools
Go North 05:51 Tools
I Don't Go Dancing Any More 03:04 Tools
Dancing To The Drummer's Beat 03:18 Tools
Cup o' Tea versus Batter Pudding 00:42 Tools
The Devil's Details / The Low Down 00:00 Tools
Step Dance 02:29 Tools
Welcome to the World 02:29 Tools
Histriomastix (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
The Call of Yesterday 01:41 Tools
F.B.I. 02:43 Tools
Jumping Joan 03:11 Tools
Devil-May-Care In Our Dancing Shoes 03:11 Tools
Rapid Polka 02:29 Tools
The Devil's Details/The Low Down 02:34 Tools
Above the Angels 02:34 Tools
Bonny Breastknot - Double Lead Through 02:56 Tools
Winter Processional 05:22 Tools
Fretful Porcupine (LIve) 05:22 Tools
The Romaunt Of The Rose - Reading from The Romaunt Of The Rose by Geoffrey Chauncer 01:19 Tools
The Cardhouse 03:16 Tools
Washington At Valley Forge 05:15 Tools
Some Sweet Day 01:41 Tools
On Seeing Grace Slick 01:41 Tools
Cul-De-Sac 01:41 Tools
Thirty-Two Years and a Lifetime 01:41 Tools
Tree 01:05 Tools
Spike and the Fieldmouse / Jake's Jig 03:58 Tools
Twist Drive 03:08 Tools
It Was My Heart 03:08 Tools
Trip to Bath 03:08 Tools
Sketches by Boz 01:41 Tools
Barley Break / Cushion Dance 03:17 Tools
Long Odds / Mr. Cosgill's Delight 03:17 Tools
Prologue - I Dreamed a Dream 02:47 Tools
La Russe (Medley) 04:27 Tools
Willow Tree / Bean Setting / Shooting 00:42 Tools
The Old Masters 03:53 Tools
Analysis Of Beauty - Reading from Analysis of Beauty 01:39 Tools
The Dashing White Sergeant / The Devil Among the Tailors 01:19 Tools
Histriomastix - Reading from Histriomastix 01:19 Tools
Saturday Night/Bobbing Joe/Beaux Badby 03:01 Tools
Barley Break/Cushion Dance - Medley 02:08 Tools
Harvest Will 04:32 Tools
Dear Landlord 04:11 Tools
Double Quadrille 06:15 Tools
Tavern In The Town 02:47 Tools
Histriomastix 02:58 Tools
Buttered Peas 03:49 Tools
Dorset Four-Hand Reel 02:33 Tools
Westonbirt Sonnet 00:59 Tools
Coming in to Land 00:47 Tools
What! Must I Now Make An Enemy 01:27 Tools
Analysis of Beauty 00:47 Tools
I Just Got Off The Plane 02:43 Tools
Eugene Onegin 02:43 Tools
Lost in the Haze 02:43 Tools
Sketches By Boz (excerpt) 03:55 Tools
Dancing Under The Rose Again 04:15 Tools
Jockey to the Fair/Room for the Cukolds 04:15 Tools
Oochesographic (excerpt) 04:15 Tools
Battle of the Somme 01:19 Tools
Analysis Of Beauty (excerpt) 03:57 Tools
Stantipes/Percussion Bridge/Trotto - Medley 04:31 Tools
Old Hog or None [Reprise] 03:01 Tools
Long Odds/Mr Cosgill's Delight - Medley 02:16 Tools
Ghosts In The Rain 02:16 Tools
It Is Not For The Want Of Will 01:56 Tools
Telstar 03:11 Tools
Matty Groves 03:16 Tools
Hullichan Jig 02:25 Tools
Four Up - Reprise 02:58 Tools
Long Odds/Mr. Cosgill's Delight 02:33 Tools
The Song of Two Bridges 04:46 Tools
A Letter 00:47 Tools
The Willow 06:36 Tools
Long Odds - Mr. Cosgills Delight 00:47 Tools
The romaunt of the rose 00:47 Tools
The Drover's Song 02:58 Tools
Turnpike Reel 01:37 Tools
Albion Sunrise (LIve) 03:17 Tools
Along the Downs 04:11 Tools
Epilogue (All's Well That Ends Well) 03:58 Tools
Sketches By Boz - Reading of Sketches by Boz 02:36 Tools
The Hanging Tree 02:58 Tools
Aire and Angells 02:58 Tools
Jupiter's Return/Bold Eric/Tailor's Buttons 00:00 Tools
The Swift 00:00 Tools
The Sherwood Hand-Jive 02:43 Tools
Wings 04:33 Tools
Gallant Hussar 03:16 Tools
Endless Pages (feat. Pete Zorn & Steve Knightley) 03:16 Tools
Has This Hotel so Many Secrets 03:16 Tools
Low Southern Slopes 03:16 Tools
Rattlebone (Edit) 02:19 Tools
Ninety Miles An Hour 02:34 Tools
Ballad In Plain D 02:34 Tools
St. Valentine's Day Sonnet 02:34 Tools
Nonesuch 01:19 Tools
Polly on the Shore 01:19 Tools
My Dear Friend 03:17 Tools
Epilogue/French Catholic Wedding Tune 03:17 Tools
Sykaleshe 03:17 Tools
Such a Crazy Marriage 03:17 Tools
Jack In The Green On Saturday Night 02:41 Tools
If I Had A Ribbon Bow 02:43 Tools
Shine On Love 02:43 Tools
Orchesographie - Reading from Orchesographie - Abreau And Capriol 01:48 Tools
Riff Raff 04:35 Tools
Nonsuch - Cuckold's AllAwry 01:37 Tools
Dragonfly 02:31 Tools
Morning of High Silence 03:45 Tools
Mannikins 01:02 Tools
The Lion of Highbury 05:51 Tools
Achren's Riddle 05:51 Tools
This Is Morris My Friend 01:02 Tools
I'm a Poor Dress-Maker 01:02 Tools
Come Join Together 03:33 Tools
Family Ties 02:34 Tools
These Cold Lips (feat. June Tabor & Mark Emerson) 02:34 Tools
Ten Miles Going There And Ten Miles Coming Back 05:21 Tools
Cecil Sharp Show (Excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Two Thousand Years Is a Very Long Time 02:34 Tools
Young Henry Martin (feat. Dick Gaughan) 02:34 Tools
House in the Country 03:46 Tools
A Drummer Won My Love (feat. Equation) 00:00 Tools
Cumberland Square Eight (Medley) 02:34 Tools
Waves Of Joy (Medley) 03:46 Tools
Rumour Hill 01:50 Tools
John Barleycorn 05:51 Tools
The Blue-Eyed Stranger/The Curly-Headed Ploughboy 02:34 Tools
I'm A Poor Dressmaker 01:02 Tools
The Riot of Spring 05:51 Tools
Come And Buy 04:35 Tools
I Was Thinking of Clarissa 04:35 Tools
Reading from "Histriomastrix" 05:21 Tools
The Party's Over 05:27 Tools
Ivory Tower 05:27 Tools
Michael Moreley's Hump 04:35 Tools
My Dearest- To Ireland I Made My Way 00:00 Tools
Reading from "Sketches by Boz" 00:00 Tools
Lads a bunkum/Young collins 02:43 Tools
The Cuckoo's Nest 02:43 Tools
Haste To The Wedding/The Triumph/Off She Goes [Medley] 02:43 Tools
Haste To The Wedding/The Triumph/Off She Goes (Medley) 02:43 Tools
Life on the River 02:29 Tools
Green City 04:16 Tools
The Bee and the Butterfly 04:16 Tools
Cuckolds All Awry 02:34 Tools
Three Jolly Burglars (feat. Joe Broughton, Ken Nicol & Vin Garbutt) 02:34 Tools
He Ran Out Of Road (feat. Barry Coope, John Tams, Judy Dunlop, Ken Nicol & Phil Beer) 02:34 Tools
St Valentine's Day Sonnet 02:34 Tools
Hornpipes (Medley) 02:34 Tools
Damn The Day (feat. Joe Broughton & Pete Morton) 02:34 Tools
The Day Came When the Doctor Called in the Relieving Officer 02:34 Tools
Seven Strong Spires 02:34 Tools
Heel-And-Toe Polka (The Belfast Polka) 02:34 Tools
Twistin' Till Monday Comes Around/ Twistin' Welsh Girls 02:34 Tools
Reading from "Analysis of Beauty" 02:34 Tools
Reynardine 02:34 Tools
Haste to the Wedding 02:34 Tools
Fotheringay 02:34 Tools
Ill Omens 02:34 Tools
Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man Part Two 02:34 Tools
Romeo and Juliet excerpt/song from Cymbaline 02:34 Tools
Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man Part One 02:34 Tools
Walk Don't Run 02:34 Tools
Horsin' Around 02:34 Tools
Nonesuch / Cuckold's All Awry 02:34 Tools
Gloucester Hornpipe/Mr Trill's Song 00:00 Tools
Cecil Sharp Show - Excerpt 00:00 Tools
Who Knows Where The Time Goes? 00:00 Tools
Mossing We'll Go 02:42 Tools
Stantipes / Trotto 00:00 Tools
Lads A'Bunchum / Young Collins 00:00 Tools
The Blue-Eyed Stranger 04:34 Tools
11 Angelina Colchester 20-5-1988 04:34 Tools
Both Sides Now 03:11 Tools
Here We Come A'wassailing 03:11 Tools
The Bluebell 03:11 Tools
Sweet Bird of Paradise 03:11 Tools
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Ashley "Tyger" Hutchings, MBE (born Ashley Stephen Hutchings on 26 January 1945) is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer. He was a founding member of three of the most noteworthy English folk-rock bands in the history of the genre: Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. Hutchings first achieved recognition as a co-founder of Fairport Convention in 1967, but his work and his musical influences predate Fairport Convention by several years, and he subsequently went on to found and lead numerous other notable groups, including Steeleye Span and the various Albion Bands. In many respects, he is to English folk-rock the rough equivalent of what John Mayall is to British blues music Hutchings started his musical life as a fan of skiffle, a highly rhythmic British answer to American folk and R&B, played at its most basic level on acoustic guitars, washtub bass, and washboard percussion. Skiffle became popular in England in the middle and late 1950s. Hutchings also had an appreciation for "trad," a British form of Dixieland jazz that had become popular in Britain at the beginning of the 1950s. He listened to a lot of early English and American rock & roll, but by the early 1960s he had developed a deep and abiding love for folk music as well. He began singing and playing bass in a skiffle band, then later graduated from the washtub version of the instrument to a proper upright bass. In 1966, Hutchings formed the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra with Simon Nicol (guitar), Steve Airey (guitar), and Bryan King (washboard), which played a mixture of English skiffle, American R&B, and folk music from the British Isles. Their work together led Hutchings — who was known then as "Tyger," a nickname he'd picked up because of his aggressiveness on the football field — and Nicol, and new colleague Richard Thompson to form Fairport Convention in 1967, with Martin Lamble (succeeded, after his death in a car crash, by [artist/]Dave Mattacks) and Judy Dyble (later replaced by Sandy Denny) added to the lineup. Fairport Convention performed a similar mix of traditional English folk, original songs, and American singer/songwriter material. After three albums structured along those lines, the band recorded Liege and Lief, a record drawn largely from traditional folk material. When it became clear to Hutchings, however, that future albums would include far more original than traditional songs, he exited the lineup and began organizing a new band, Steeleye Span. Formed by Hutchings, Tim Hart, Maddy Prior, and Peter Knight, with Martin Carthy coming in as the fifth member, Steeleye Span in its original form (and for several lineup changes after) was devoted to purely traditional music, adapted to the forces of a five-piece band with a growing arsenal of electric instruments. Ultimately, Steeleye shared the limelight with Fairport Convention, vying for the greater loyalty of folk-music fans, and even reaching out for a time to rock audiences — the decision to go almost fully electric and the addition of a full-time drummer toughened their sound considerably, and an association with Jethro Tull, opening for the chart-topping band on an American tour, and getting the services of Ian Anderson as producer for one album. Before that point, Hutchings was gone, having exited after the recording of the group's third album Below the Salt. In late 1971, he found himself a member of the Albion Country Band, formed to back his then-wife, Shirley Collins, on one of her albums, and decided to keep the studio ensemble together under that name. The initial lineup included his ex-Fairport bandmates Simon Nicol (guitar) and Richard Thompson (guitar), as well as vocalist/concertina players John Kirkpatrick and the late Royston Wood, and the group subsequently included upwards of 26 musicians at various times. This Albion lasted in various lineups (Kirkpatrick exited the original lineup very quickly, to return later on, while Wood was gone after October of 1972 — Steve Ashley joined on harmonica, along with ex-Fairport drummer Dave Mattacks, Linda Thompson came in on vocals, fiddle and banjo player Sue Draheim came into the fold for a time). In January of 1974, the Albion Country Band evolved into the Etchingham Steam Band, with Hutchings on acoustic bass guitar, Shirley Collins on vocals, Ian Holder on accordion, and Terry Potter on mouth-organ. Nicol, Mattacks, and Hutchings' Steeleye Span bandmate Martin Carthy all passed through this lineup, which lasted into 1975. The group's next incarnation, lasting from 1975 until 1977, was the Albion Dance Band, with Hutchings (back on electric bass) and Nicol still at the core. Finally, in 1978, Hutchings formed the Albion Band, with a lineup that included future Fairport Convention member Ric Sanders on violin. This group, with some lineup changes (including Nicol and Mattacks passing through) lasted into the 1990s, recording numerous albums, and also became the subject of a BBC documentary. Hutchings also recorded several quasi-solo projects during the 1970s and '80s, including Kickin' Up the Sawdust, A Word in Your Ear, The View from Pa's Piano Stool, and By the Gloucester Docks, The Compleat Dancing Master with John Kirkpatrick, Rattlebone and Ploughjack (credited to Ashley Hutchings & Chums) and Morris On, Son of Morris On, and Sway with Me (as Judy Dunlop & Ashley Hutchings with Judy Dunlop). He appeared on numerous albums by other artists throughout the 1970s and '80s, working with Ian Matthews, The Bunch (a rock showcase album by a group of English folkies), Shirley Collins, Royston and Heather Wood, Ray Fisher, Richard Thompson (Henry the Human Fly), Mike and Lal Waterson, Martin Carthy, the Kipper Family, and Polly Bolton. With so many associations in his past, Hutchings inevitably turned up on numerous compilation albums and boxed sets devoted to such artists as Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny, among others. During the 1980s, Hutchings wrote a one-man show about folksong collector Cecil Sharp, a show he performed throughout England beginning in 1984, events that resulted in the album An Hour with Cecil Sharp and Ashley Hutchings. In the 1990s, Hutchings assembled Ashley Hutchings' Big Beat Combo, a revival group specializing in skiffle, trad, and early English rock & roll. By now one of the grand old men of English folk-rock, Hutchings has been a major force for close to 30 years, fostering the foundation of more than his share of legendary and important bands. His skills as a bassist placed him in demand beyond the boundaries of typical folk bands, but the most important aspect of his contribution to music, apart from the bands he organized, is his ability to take traditional music long predating this century, and transmute it into something accessible to young, modern listeners, without violating its spirit wholesale. Hutchings has a sparkling sense of humor that radiates as brightly as his musical ability on most every project he has ever participated in. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.