Ashley Hutchings, A Word in Your Ear "Plus"

CD Talking Elephant  TECD 047 (UK 2002)

E' un cd dedicato alle fonti ispiratrici dell'opera di questo bassista che ha attraversato la storia del folk revival: vi trovano posto poeti, narratori e autori diversi. Ma vi trovano posto anche dei brani dedicati al musical, in cui Ashley è accompagnato al piano dal fratello Len Hutchings in una registrazione del 1992. Se a queste cose (il tutto difetta un po' di coerenza in verità) aggiungiamo le fotografie di Greg Hutchings, abbiamo davvero l'impressione di un lavoro fatto in famiglia.

Tracks:
A Word in Your Ear
1. Coming in to Land (Ashley Hutchings)
Sonnet Number 113 (William Shakespeare) 
2. On Seeing Grace Slick Unexpectedly in a 1987 Television Rock Spectacular (Ashley Hutchings) 
3. The Language of Flowers (including words from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and from Love Potions, by Josephine Addison)
Time Does Not Bring Relief (Edna St Vincent Millay) Kitty Comes Down the Lane (Ashley Hutchings)
Yellow Dress (Phil Beer, Ashley Hutchings) 
4. Excerpts from The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy) The Woodlands of England (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone) 
5. Excerpts from Lark Rise (Flora Thompson) Till the Time We Meet Again (Trad. arr. Ashley Hutchings)
Laura's Song (Ashley Hutchings, Cathy Lesurf) 
6. George Collins (Trad. collected by Peter Kennedy from Enos White and transmitted by Shirley Collins) Geoff Collins (Ashley Hutchings) 
7. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe)
Come Live With Me and Be My Love (Ashley Hutchings) 
8. Horoscope of Thomas Chatterton (Sibly)
An Ancient poem called The Battle of Hastings (Thomas Chatterton)
Dear Chatterton (Ashley Hutchings) 
9. The Garden (from The Task, by William Cowper)
Excerpt from Hope (William Cowper) Sunday in the Rain (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone) 
10. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray) Wolfe (Ashley Hutchings) 
11. The Broken Heart (John Donne)
The Triple Foole (John Donne)
Loving in Truth (Sir Philip Sidney) Heart (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone) 
12. Excerpt from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Elizabeth Smart)
St Valentine's Day Sonnet (Ashley Hutchings) To Ireland I Made My Way (Ashley Hutchings, John Shepherd) 
13. Excerpt from As You Like It (William Shakespeare) 'T' Stands for Thomas (Trad.) 
14. Excerpt from Brief Encounter (Noel Coward)
Meeting Point (Louis Macniece) Brief Encounters (Ashley Hutchings) 
15. My Cat, Jeoffrey (Christopher Smart) 
16. As One Who Knows Love's Hidden Truth (Ashley Hutchings) 
17. Excerpt from Little Gidding (T.S. Eliot) Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve (Ashley Hutchings) 
18. Excerpt from V (Thomas Pynchon) The Rose and the Rock (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone) 
19. Excerpt from The Iceman Cometh (Eugene O'Neill) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone) 
20. Excerpt from Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman) Words (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone) 
21. Excerpt from a Poem on Vladimir Nabokow (John Whitworth) Words (Ashley Hutchings, Dave Whetstone)