''No One Stands Alone'' is an album by the folk group Blue Murder, recorded and issued 2002. All of the songs on the album are sung in ensemble, but the sound mix varies on each track. For example, the female voices are much quieter on the "male" song, "Bully in the Alley".

Mike Waterson Michael Waterson (17 January 1941 – 22 June 2011) was an English writer, songwriter and folk singer. Biography Waterson was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. After being orphaned at an early age, he was brought up there, wit ...

's voice is to the fore in his own song "Rubber Band".

Martin Carthy Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as ...

plays guitar on "Rubber Band", "Blue Mountain", "Mole in a Hole" and "The Goodnight Song".

Lester Simpson Lester Simpson is an English folk singer and radio presenter on BBC Local Radio in BBC Radio Derby, Derbyshire, BBC Radio Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and BBC Radio Leicester, Leicestershire. He features in the three-piece folk group Coope, Boyes a ...

plays accordion on "Three Day Millionaire". "The Land Where You Never Grow Old" is probably influenced by Johnny Cash's version of the song. In 2009 "No One stands Alone" was included in

Topic Records Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.M. Brocken, ...

70 year anniversary boxed set ''

Three Score and Ten ''Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People'' is a multi-CD box set album issued by Topic Records in 2009 to celebrate 70 years as an independent British record label. The album consists of a hardback book containing the seven CDs and a paper ...

'' as track twenty two on the seventh CD.

Track listing

Personnel

Vocals on all tracks: * Barry Coope, Jim Boyes, Lester Simpson *

Norma Waterson Norma Christine Waterson (15 August 1939 – 30 January 2022) was an English singer and songwriter, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a celebrated English traditional folk group. Other members of the group included h ...

Eliza Carthy Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson. Life and care ...

External links

* Allmusic Guide album entry {{Authority control Blue Murder (folk group) albums 2002 albums Topic Records albums