Battlefield Band, On the Rise

 

LP Temple Records 1986 - TP021

 

Robin Morton produce per la Temple questo nuovo album, arricchito da un inserto con una spiegazione dettagliata degli strumenti usati e delle composizioni. I bellissimi disegni di copertina sono del mitico "Jimboy" Hutcheson. Sul retro le foto B/N del gruppo sono opera di Wolfgang Gonaus..

 

Tracks Side A: 

John MacKenzie's Fancy (J Barrie)/The Train Journey North (T Anderson); Carnlough Bay; The Pilgrim's March/Scarlet and Black (Brian McNeill)/The Struggle (D Pincock)/Struy Lodge (William Ross); Montrose (Brian McNeill); She's Late But She's Timely (Alan Reid); Bad Moon Rising (J Fogerty)/The Rising Moon Reel (D Pincock)

 

Tracks Side B: 

The Clumsy Lover (Neil Dickie)/The Unmade Bed (D Pincock); The Dear Green Place (Alan Reid); The Gale Warning (R Seton)/The Anchor's Steam Reel (Brian McNeill)/The Farmer's Daughter; Island Earth No More (J Corrie/Battlefield Band)/Flight of the Eaglets (Wm Ross); After Hours (C McGettigan)Green Gates/The Ship in Full Sail

 

Musicians:

Brian McNeill (fiddle, mandocello, mandolin, guitar, vocals, cittern); 

Alan Reid (keyboards, vocals); 

Dougie Pincock (whistles, Highland pipes, small pipes, flute, tom-tom, mandolin, bodhran); 

Alistair Russell (guitar, vocals)