Ashley Hutchings, Paradise and Thorns, LP UK Talking Elephant 2018 - TELP410

The full title of this album is ‘Paradise and Thorns: Gloucster Docks Revisited and Other Tales of Love’, as this is both a sequel and a reworking of his 1987 album ‘By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept’, an album which has been hailed by many as one of the most important releases from throughout his long and incredible musical journey.

Il titolo completo di questo album è "Paradise and Thorns: Gloucester Docks Revisited and Other Tales of Love", in quanto è sia un sequel che una rielaborazione del suo album del 1987 "By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept", un album che è stato salutato da molti come una delle uscite più importanti del suo lungo e incredibile viaggio musicale.

Tracks Disc 1: 1. Elegie XII 2. Kitty Come Down The Lane 3. The Meadow 4. Art Nouveau 5. St Valentine’s Day Sonnet 6. Trip To Bath 7. Sultana Cake 8. Cul-de-sac 9. Our Stolen Season 10. Has This Hotel So Many Secrets ? 11. Evil-may-care In Our Dancing Shoes 12. Eugene Onegin 13. It Was My Heart 14. I Dreamed A Dream 15. Thirty-two Years And A Lifetime 16. Epilogue / French Catholic Wedding Tune – Tracks Disc 2: 1. Avona And The Giant 2. Above The Angels 3. Aire And Angells 4. If There’s No Other Way 5. If Love Has Wings 6. The Swift 7. Such A Crazy Marriage 8. Polly On The Shore 9. I Remember Every Detail 10. I Was Thinking Of Clarissa 11. Welcome To The World 12. Notes From The Journal Os A Quick-tempered Man – Part One 13. Sykaleshe 14. Notes From The Journal Os A Quick-tempered Man – Part Two 15. Lost In The Haze 16. Romeo And Juliet Excerpt / Song From Cymbeline