The album is listed in the accompanying book to the Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten as one of their classic records[2]: 30  with The Blackleg Miners as the sixth track and The Weavers March as the twentieth track on the sixth CD in the set.

[3] The featured singers and musicians are Anne Briggs, Bob Davenport, Ray Fisher, Louis Killen, A. L. Lloyd, Matt McGinn and The Celebrated Working Man's Band.

[2]: 31  The album was recorded at Champion's in Hampstead, London[2]: 30  by Bill Leader and Paul Carter in an ad hoc studio set up in a large room.

[2]: 31  The album had a sleeve note commentary and a 4-page accompanying booklet with tune and song details, including lyrics, both written by A. L. Lloyd.

[6] 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),[7] which had been published under the title of "The Four Loom Weaver" in MacColl's book The Shuttle And Cage.