Singer/songwriter Bill Malkin and keyboard player John Sylvester recorded 'Hunting with the Hounds' in 2008/9 at Shamwari Studios in Chester, UK. Numerous musical friends contributed to these recording sessions including Chris Lee, Dave Russell, Graham Bellinger, Mark Wooley, Alistair Coakley, John Nielsen, Ian Jones, Helen De Lemos and Jamie Matthews. In the folk tradition many of the 13 album tracks relate events historical, tragic, social and political ... in a variety of musical styles which, while predominantly acoustic, reflect a wide range of subtle influences including English-folk, Americana-roots, African-Kwela, country, folk-rock, jazz and blues. Florida Sky is a tribute to the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger; Cropredy Musical Fair 'paints' a musical picture of Fairport Convention's Cropredy Festival; The Ballad of Robert Cadman tells the true story of an eccentric Shrewsbury-based tight rope walker; Chocolate Charlie remembers Charlie Atkins, a well-known narrowboat skipper who plied the waters of the Shropshire Union Canal.