John Kirkpatrick, Coat - Tails - Flying

 

Fledg'ling Records FLED 3104 (CD, UK, 2017)

Nuovo album prodotto e arrangiato da John Kirkpatrick e registrato nonché mixato da Graeme Taylor nell'aprile 2017 negli studi Morden Shoals. L'immagine di copertina, ideata e disegnata da Louise Dawson, mostra due ballerini anticipando lo spirito della danza che caratterizza il cd e che lo anima di una energia straordinaria. Tra le composizioni, una particolare segnalazione va a " The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea",  una elegiaca ed evocativa canzone tradizionale.

Tracks

Come All You Jolly Ploughboys (Roud 202) (3.33) - On the Quarterdeck (3.38) - The Hi Ho Hare (Roud 5173) (3.52) - The Middle of the World (4.47) - The Captain with the Whiskers (Roud 2735; G/D 1:87; Henry H660) (3.39) - Bum She Addity (Roud 1212) (3.36) - My Soul Is Drowned in Sorrow (4.33) - Harry Tuffin's Musical Ride / Golden Greenery (4.34) - The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea (Roud 987; Laws O15) (5.25) - The House That Jack Built (Roud 12921) (5.23) - Sing a Full Song (4.59) - Ranging the Woods (3.34) - See Me Dance the Polka (Roud 7932) (5.42) - Blue Moon (3.57)

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 9-10 trad. arr. John Kirkpatrick;
Track 2 Kenneth J. Alford;
Tracks 4, 8, 11-12 John Kirkpatrick;
Track 5 words W.J. Florence, music Shirley Collins;
Track 7 words John Kirkpatrick, music trad. Icelandic arr. John Kirkpatrick;
Track 13 George Grossmith;
Track 14 words Lorenz Hart, music Richard Rogers

Musicians:

John Kirkpatrick, lead and backing vocals, button accordion, treble and bass Anglo concertinas, two-row melodeon, spoons, triangle, cabassa, accordion buttons, guiro, tambourine, vibraslap, bells