Using key recordings as route markers, we cycle out through 35 years of Ashley's career.

The story begins in London's Fortis Green as The Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra evolve into Fairport Convention - and comes up-to-date, thirty-six years later, when Ashley's in Derbyshire, still hatching plans and bands, recently including The Cecil Sharp Centenary Collective , The Albion Christmas Band , The 'Great-Grandson of Morris On' Band and Rainbow Chasers.

Along the way, we encounter the three most influential (and most variously-populated) folk rock bands in the world!!

Guests on this CD - which largely features previously-unreleased live, session and broadcast performances - include 'the usual suspects ' ? Fairports down the years, various Steeleyes , and a wealth of Albions - plus choice tracks from the All-Stars , Judy Dunlop & Barry Coope , new music from Rainbow Chasers ? and Prof Lacey and Friends .

Mr Hutchings intercedes at various junctures with words and songs to progress the tale.

1. Ashley Hutchings & Friends: Working Underground (3:56)
   Unreleased recording (2004)
2. Ashley Hutchings: Coming in to Land (0:47)
   from A Word in Your Ear (1991)
3. Judy Dunlop & Barry Coope: This Blessed Plot (4:16)
   from Human Nature (2003)
4. Albion Country Band: New St George / La Rotta (4:23)
   live recording (1973)
5. Albion Band: Albion Heart (4:51)
   live recording (1995)
6. Ashley Hutchings Big Beat Combo: Telstar (4:34)
   from Twangin' n' a-Traddin' (1994)
7. Ashley Hutchings & Friends: Eternal Circle (3:35)
   live at Shaftesbury Hall (1989)
8. Fairport Convention: It Takes a Lot to Laugh (excerpt) (1:50)
   live, June 1968 (1968)
9. Fairport Convention: Mr Lacey (2:50)
   from What We Did on Our Holidays (1969)
10. Fairport Convention: Come All Ye (5:00)
    from Liege and Lief (1970)
11. Steeleye Span: One Night As I Lay on My Bed (3:30)
    from Hark! The Village Wait (1971)
12. Albion Band: Albion Sunrise (2:55)
    from Battle of the Field (1976; rec. 1973)
13. Albion Band: Poor Old Horse (6:34)
    live at Loughborough (1978)
14. Albion Band: Time to Ring Some Changes (3:10)
    radio session, Stockport (1982)
15. Albion Band: Along the Pilgrim's Way (4:50)
    from Demi Paradise (1996)
16. Albion Band: The Party's Over (6:13)
    from 1990 (1990)
17. Ashley Hutchings All Stars: Angelina (5:40)
    live recording (1988)
18. Ashley Hutchings & Friends: Abandoned Love (4:29)
    live at Shaftesbury Hall, Winchester (1989)
19. Albion Band: Wings (4:26)
    single version (1998)
20. Rainbow Chasers: About Dawn (5:35)
    from Some Colours Fly (2005)