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The songs.
Here's a couple of fairly recent, full songs in something like CD quality as wma (Windows Media Audio - not MP3 - so don't try it on dial-up!):
Lovely Joan (trad. - 1.45mb) For me, a song that's always been around. This is about the fifth major rearrangment I've come up with. (2007 note: I'm now on something like the seventh major rearrangement, using my Loop Station which allows real-time overdubbing of phrases.)
Recorded live in one take early in 2004. DADGAD tuning, capo III (or it might have been IV).
Fragile Heart (Currie - 1.6mb). Written in the aftermath of the World Trade Centre tragedy, it was going to be about life, the universe and everything. It turned into a sort of love song.
Recorded live in one take early in 2004. Standard tuning, capo I.
Ship Carpenter’s Wife (trad. - 4.6mb) Learnt from all over the place. Tune from Pentangle’s "House Carpenter" on their "Basket of Light" album, the words are from the Child Ballads (no. 243, The Daemon Lover). The arrangement was inspired by Martin Simpson’s banjo version. But it’s nothing like it, after all!
Recorded live in one take, June, 2006. DADGAD tuning, no capo.
Boston Harbour (trad. - 2.3mb) Nicked shamelessly from Boden and Spiers, who feature it on their debut album, "Through and Through". They’d nicked it from The Watersons.
Recorded live in one take, July, 2006. Open D tuning, capo IV.
An Clunnie Mi Mo Nighean Donn/The Jute Mill Song (trad./Mary Brooksbank - 4mb). I stole the tune from the very wonderful Anna Massie, who features it on her album "Glad Company". I seem to have mangled it to such an extent that she’d barely recognise it. The Jute Mill Song is a song I remember from my childhood in Dundee. It was only relatively recently that I found that it was written from the heart by someone who really did have to "feed and cled [her] bairnie affen ten and nine".
Recorded live in one take, July, 2006. DADGAD tuning, capo III.
Drops of Water (Currie, 2004 - 4.2mb). On 4th November 2004 Sgt Stuart Gray, 31, Pte Paul Lowe, 19, and Pte Scott McArdle, 22, died while manning a vehicle checkpoint, east of the River Euphrates, near Falluja. They were members of the Black Watch. The 850-strong force had been attacked repeatedly since it arrived at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles from Baghdad, just a week earlier, after a request from the US. The attack brought to 73 the number of UK military personnel killed in Iraq. The regiment traditionally recruits from Perthshire, Angus and Fife. I was in Dundee around the time, and the stark statistics were thrown into perspective by the local newspaper coverage: these young lads were real people – somebody’s friends and sons.
Recorded live in one take, May 2006. DADGAD tuning, capo III.
More clips on MySpace
There are a few more clips on my MySpace page - and gig dates and a few blogs.
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Lombardy Folk Music stuff
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This page last changed 28th December 2007
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