 This album was Anne Briggs's first recorded work.This was also Matt McGinn's first recorded work after he won a songwriting competition with "The Foreman O'Rourke".In the booklet for the vinyl album, A. L. Lloyd writes that "The Poor Cotton Wayver" has a version to a different tune on Ewan MacColl's album "Shuttle And Cage" (1954), which had been published under the title of "The Four Loom Weaver" in MacColl's book "The Shuttle And Cage".