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| Labels | |
| Pickled Egg Records | UK-label who have put out almost all of the Big Eyes releases |
| Early Winter Recordings | Big Eyes micro-label run by their captain James Green |
| Jonathon Whiskey Records | UK label who released the split single with Empress |
| Volkoren / The Pet Series | Dutch label who put out a Big Eyes song on Pet Series #3 compilation |
| Popnews | French label who put out a Big Eyes song on Popnews Vol#2 compilation |
| Singing Knives | Sheffield, UK label/gig-promoters very much in a DIY/new folk direction |
| Rusted Rail | Irish label who put out 'Donkeysongs' |
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| Collaborators | |
| A Hawk and A Hacksaw | klezmer/eastern folk charmers, of whom Jeremy Barnes contributed to 'Do the Musiking' |
| James William Hindle | folk singer, and all round good-egg and 'Goat' member - contributed to 'Do the Musiking' |
| James Yorkston | folk singer and Domino-dude, contributed to 'Do the Musiking' |
| Rachel Grimes (Rachel's) | Classical pianist, and member of Louisville's finest export, contributed to 'Do the Musiking' |
| Suzy Mangion (George) | fellow Pickled Egg acolyte, and purveyors of dream-pop melodious-ness - contributed to 'Do the Musiking' |
| Lindsay Aitkenhead | champion of the viola, doctor of eastern music - contributed to 'Do the Musiking' |
| Shaun Alcock | Real Losers axe-grinder/smasher - contributed drums to 'Do the Musiking' and 'Clumsy Music' |
| Terry Edwards | multi-instrumentalist, sometime Tinderstick and flugelhorn-blower on 'We have No Need...' |
| Bela Emerson | cellist, and loop-juggler - played on 'Clumsy Music' |
| Nancy Elizabeth | Wigan torch-singer songwriter - collaborator on 'Folk Songs' |
| Mary Hampton | Very special classical/folk singer - featured on JY+TBEFP 'Barbara Allen' and 'Folk songs' tour Player |
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| Other people we admire (a random selection) | |
| Josephine Foster | true folk genius from Chicago |
| The Dirty Three | Australian rock re-invented with a violin and buckets of tears |
| Alasdair Roberts | Scottish pioneer of the oldest folk sound and singer of the best murder-ballads |
| Will Oldham | need we say more? |
| The Broken Blackbird Ensemble | free-music group featuring James of Big Eyes, the flipside |
| Clogs | US/Australian experimental classical dudes |
| Vetiver | the loveliest American folk songs floating on the breeze from San Francisco |
| John Fahey | the 'rock' on which us turtles sit |
| A Silver Mt Zion | passing of a dog has to be good.. |
| Steady Cam Records | Australian DIY label putting out beautiful music in beautiful sleeves |
| Misplaced Music | Leeds/Duluth label who give us the splendid Charlie Parr and Adrian Crowley |
| Hinah | French/German DIY label responsible for releases by Devendra Banhart and The Goat |
| Harmonic Rooms | Leeds DIY promoters, kind-of sisters to Singing Knives |
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