Ashley Hutchings, Big Beat Combo

(HTD Records HTD CD 25, 1994)

Hutchings ci sorprende sempre: inaugura in questo caso un nuovo "beat" non privo di sorprese, alternando brani e sonorità anni 50 e 60, a composizioni originali quali la bellissima e psichedelica "Spyder Walk". Volutamente kitch è il libretto disegnato per l'occasione da Malcolm Holmes, divertenti invece le fotografie di Clive Taylor.

Tracks:

F.B.I. (Gormley) / The Sherwood Hand-Jive (traditional) / Riff Raff (Ashley Hutchings) / Twistin' Til Monday Comes Around - Twistin' Welsh Girls (Ashley Hutchings) / Telstar (Meek) / Walk Don't Run (Smith) / Duane Eddy Medley: Movin' n' Groovin' (Hazelwood / Eddy) / Rebel Rouser (Hazelwood / Eddy) / Detour (Westmoreland) / Clackety Melodeon (Ashley Hutchings) / Horsin' Around (traditional) / Spyder Walk (Ashley Hutchings) / Spinnin' Jenny - Soldier's Spree (traditional) / Twang Me Down My Old Mohair Space-Suit (Ashley Hutchings)

Musicians:

Ashley Hutchings: bass - Simon Care: melodeon - Phil Beer: fiddle, mandolin, mandocello, guitar - Geoff Driscoll: saxophone  - Colin Green: guitar - Colin Price-Jones: guitar - Martin Allcock: keyboards, quattro - Simon Nicol: guitar - Clem Cattini: drums - Trevor Foster: drums - Guest: Richard Thompson: guitar, penny whistle