Ashley Hutchings, By Gloucester Docks I sat down and wept

 

Talking Elephant TECD440 (CD, UK, 2020)


Pubblicato originariamente nel 1987 per l'etichetta Paradise and Thorns e non disponibile per molti anni, questo magnifico album è oggi pubblicato in questa versione riconfezionata e rimasterizzata. L’ascolto è ancora piacevolissimo e l’opera resiste davvero al passare del tempo. La confezione disegnata da Mike Toole possiede un packaging sincronizzato per completare le sue altre due uscite Paradise & Thorns e Gone Missing.

Tracks:
1 Prologue - I Dreamed a Dream (Died for Love) - 2 Ring on Her Finger - 3 Dancing Under the Rose - Again - 4 What! Must I Now Make An Enemy/Under the Rose - 5 Keep You Warm - 6 Ten Reasons Why They Should Be Together - 7 At the Women's Institute Dance/Flower Arranging - 8 We Walked in God's Country - 9 A Letter/Small Town Romance - 10 Don't Look Back - 11 In the Café - 12 Brief Encounters - 13 Westonbirt Sonnett/ T Stands for Thomas - 14 My Dearest - 15 To Ireland I Made My Way#Lies - 16 My Dear Friend/Dives and Lazarus - the Blacksmith - 17 I Don't Go Dancing Any More - 18 Love, Stuff and Nonsense - 19 Epilogue - Died for Love.

Musicians:
His voice: Michael Pennington (speech), Ashley Hutchings (singing) - Her voice: Marilyn Cutts (speech), Polly Bolton (singing) - Christine Collister, vocals, lead vocals on [1]; Clive Gregson, vocals; Pete Zorn, bass guitar, alto and soprano saxes, flute, and doctor, acupuncturist and priest on [15]; Graeme Taylor, electric and acoustic guitars; Phil Beer, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddle; Dave Mattacks, drums, percussion; Dave Whetstone, acoustic guitar, melodeon, concertina; John Shepherd, electric piano, synthesisers; Steve Ashley, harmonica [8]; Mick Doonan, Irish pipes, whistles.