Ashley Hutchings
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Ashley Hutchings (born January 26 1945) is a folk musician.
Ashley Hutchings was born in Southgate but moved to Muswell Hill, London while still a child. He formed several groups, including "Dr K's Blues Band" in 1964. When he met guitarist Simon Nicol he started rehearsing a new band on the floor above Simon's father's medical practice. The house was called "Fairport". He has probably founded more groups than any other bass-player. The most famous are Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and the ever-changing Albion. He made several thematic albums with session musicians gathered from across the traditional and folk-rock spectrum, with himself credited as the producer. He left Fairport Convention in 1970 to form Steeleye Span. He left them in 1971 to form Albion. The series of albums called The Guv'nor is a retrospective of rare recordings from several groups. In 2004 Ashley announced that the Albion band would not be used again. In 2005 he returned as part of a quartet, called "Rainbow Chasers". "Burning Bright" (2005) is a boxed set of 4 CDs, with many rare and previously unreleased recordings.
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Discography
Fairport Convention
Steeleye Span
- See Steeleye Span
Albion Band
- Battle of the Field (1976)
- The Prospect Before Us (1977)
- Rise Up Like the Sun (1978)
- The BBC Sessions (1978)
- Lark Rise to Candleford (1980)
- Light Shining (1982)
- Shuffle Off (1983)
- Under the Rose (1984)
- Stella Maris (1987)
- Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival (1987)
- Give Me A Saddle I'll Trade You A Car (1989)
- The Best of 1989/90 (1990)
- In Concert (1993)
- Acousticity (1993)
- Captured (1994)
- Albion Heart (1995)
- Demi Paradise (1996)
- The Acoustic Years 1993 - 1997 (1997)
- Happy Accident (1998)
- Before Us Stands Yesterday (1999)
- Christmas Album (2000)
- The HDT Years (2000)
- An Evening With (2002)
- An Albion Christmas (2003)
Albion Morris
Ashley Hutchings and Albion Band
- No Surrender (2003)
Ashley Hutchings as producer and bass-player
- Morris On (1971)
- The Complete Dancing Master (1974)
- Son of Morris On (1976)
- Rattlebone and Ploughjack (1976)
- Kicking Up the Sawdust (1977)
- An Hour With Cecil Sharp (1986)
- By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept (1987)
- The Guv'nor vol 1 (1993)
- A Batter Pudding for John Keats (1996)
- The Guv'nor vol 2 (1997)
- The Guv'nor vol 3 (1999)
- The Guv'nor vol 4 (1999)
- Folk Aerobics (2001)
- Over the Downs (2001)
- The Ridgeriders (2001)
- Street Cries (2001)
- The Guv'nor vol 5 (2002)
- Grandson of Morris On (2002)
- Human Nature? (2003)
- As I Cycled Out One May Morning (2003)
- Great Grandson of Morris On (2004)
- Burning Bright (2005) (box set)
Ashley Hutchings with John Kirkpatrick
- The Compleat Dancing Master (1974)