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Albums & Eps

If you’d like to buy by Jon Wilks albums and support what I do, head to my Bandcamp page.

Occasionally, I play in a duo called The Grizzly Folk. We have a Bandcamp page here. The Grizzly Folk albums and EPs tend to be original material, rather than the traditional folk music I record on my solo albums.

If you’d prefer, you can listen on Spotify or Apple Music via the links below.

Jon Wilks on Spotify

You can listen to my top tracks below, or head to my Spotify page to see my full back catalogue.

The Grizzly Folk on Spotify

You can listen to our top tracks below, or head to our Spotify page to see our full back catalogue.

Jon Wilks & The Grizzly Folk albums and EPs elsewhere

My albums and EPs are listed below, along with links to where you’ll find them, including Apple Music, Deezer, and other streaming sites.

Jon Wilks albums, singles & EPs

Cover of Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost, by Jon Wilks

Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost (2023, album)

  1. Tape Machine
  2. Johnny Sands [Roud 184]
  3. Greek Street
  4. Gallons of Brandy/ Fox Tell
  5. Haymaking Song [Roud 153]
  6. Lofty Tall Ship [Roud 104]
  7. Will Watch [Roud 1617]
  8. The Old Miner [Roud 1136]
  9. The Boatswain [Roud 570]
  10. Erin, Sad Erin [Roud 1629]
  11. The Fowler [Roud 166]
  12. Banjo Therapy

Read the sleeve notes to Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Up The Cut (2021, album)

  1. Pretty Girls of Brummagem [Roud V1691]
  2. The Stowaway [Roud 6341]
  3. Edward [Child 13, Roud 200]
  4. John Riley [Roud 270]
  5. The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove [Child 18, Roud 29]
  6. The Tramp’s Philosophy [Roud 10672]
  7. How Five and Twenty Shillings Were Expended in a Week [Roud V1598]
  8. The Lover’s Ghost [Child 248, Roud 179]
  9. Little Grey Oss [Roud 393]
  10. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [Roud 394]

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Tell Old Bill (2020, single)

  1. Tell Old Bill [Roud 7876]

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

From a Lullaby Kiss (2020, single)

Song overview for From a Lullaby Kiss here.

  1. From a Lullaby Kiss

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Deezer

Toryanse (2019, single)

Song overview for Toryanse here.

  1. Toryanse

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

The Trial Of Bill Burn Under Martin’s Act (2019, EP)

  1. The Trial Of Bill Burn Under Martin’s Act
  2. Holly Ho (feat. Nick Hart and Mikey Kenney)
  3. Who Hung the Monkey?
  4. Leave Her, Johnny

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Poverty Knock (2019, single)

Song overview for Poverty Knock here.

  1. Poverty Knock [Roud 3491]

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Deezer

Midlife (2018, album)

Album overview for Midlife here.

  1. The Brave Dudley Boys (Roud 1131)
  2. I Can’t Find Brummagem (Roud V34542)
  3. Navvy Boots (Roud 516)
  4. John Hobbs (Roud 21966)
  5. Bandy-Legged Lett
  6. Buffoon
  7. Birmingham Sally (Roud V254)
  8. Colin’s Ghost (Roud 1600)
  9. Aye For Saturday Night (My Bloke’s a Peaky) (Roud 5701 and 24185)
  10. There Was An Old Man Came Over the Sea (Roud 362)
  11. Oh, It Was My Cruel Parents Who Did Me First Trepan (Roud 2897)
  12. Adieu, Adieu (Roud 490)

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Songs From The Attic (2017, album)

Album overview for Songs From The Attic here.

  1. The Sandgate Dandling (Roud B24532)
  2. The Bedmaking (Roud 1631)
  3. Girl on a Kemble Train 
  4. When First I Came to Caledonia 
  5. Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206) 
  6. Ye Mariners All (A Jug of This) (Roud 1191) 
  7. My Old Hat That I Got On (Roud 475) 
  8. Durham Fair 
  9. Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) 

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Albums, singles & EPs by The Grizzly Folk

Leftovers & Extras (2019, album)

  1. Gotta Keep an Eye On My Lover
  2. Let’s Have You
  3. Faith in the Family
  4. Kathy’s Song [Paul Simon cover]
  5. Before I’m Dead and Gone
  6. Night Town Service: Dance Scene
  7. Night Town Service: One Eye Watching
  8. Night Town Service: The Chimney’s On Fire
  9. Night Town Service: Fight Night at Pyramid Cafe
  10. Stick Dance at Grizzly Central
  11. Willow
  12. Drawn
  13. Nobody Writes Protest Songs Anymore
  14. You’ll Do Right By Me
  15. Summer Thigh
  16. Kaiyan

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Templecombe (2019, single)

  1. Templecombe

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

October Song (2018, single)

  1. October Song [Incredible String Band cover]

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Deezer

Baibaba Bimba (2016, EP)

  1. Baibaba Bimba [Tenniscoats cover]
  2. The Liminal Hours
  3. Meet Me at Nine
  4. Baibaba Bimba (acoustic) [Tenniscoats cover]

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Lairy Through the Town (2015, album)

Only available now on Bandcamp.

  1. The Ghost of Johnny Hallyday
  2. Lairy Through the Town (Often They Would Go)
  3. Gotta Keep an Eye on My Lover
  4. The Franco-Belgian Border
  5. Cold Weather
  6. Do You Lie?
  7. The Shirker
  8. All This Rigor Mortis
  9. Katie Cruel [Roud 1645]
  10. I’ve Been Low

Listen on: Bandcamp

Gurning at the Moon (2013, album)

Album overview here.

  1. The Wassailing Song [Roud 209]
  2. If I Told You
  3. Milo’s Tune
  4. Friday Night
  5. Hana’s Song
  6. Don’t Blame Me
  7. Mixtapes
  8. The I Don’t Know Song
  9. Supernatural Gumboots
  10. I Can’t Breathe
  11. These Are the End Days
  12. The Colonel’s Pantry
  13. Time To Go Home
  14. Hana’s Song [Demo]

Listen on: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Deezer

Other albums and EPs featuring Jon Wilks

Nursery Rhymes (Jackie Oates, 2020)

This was a recording of (mostly) traditional children’s songs, recorded with Jackie Oates for the Yoto website (link here). Jon played guitar on:

  • The Grand Old Duke Of York
  • Pop! Goes The Weasel
  • Oranges and Lemons
  • Baby Mine
  • Old MacDonald

Slow Jane

Project overview here.

Cut Flowers

  • You Come Around (2007, EP)
  • Early Recordings (2005, album)

Nanbanjin

  • On Your Way (2006, album – Jon was the producer, and played keyboards). Spotify link here.