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Black Country Woman
This is an attempt to write an 'English' country song. The Black Country Woman is the elemental woman; wife, mother, lover. She represents our land and our cultural inheritance. Thanks To Gillian Welch and Led Zeppelin for inspiring and firing this one up.
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Thunder
Ever woken up with that special person in your arms and there's a massive thunder storm going on ouside?
Secrets
There are no secrets in a long lived, loving relationship between equals.
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The Hardest Thing
A friend's wife died suddenly and most unexpectedly at a young age to a brain tumour. He wrote how 'The hardest thing is waking up without her beside me'. This song arrived pretty much fully formed in a very short space of time.
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Nothin' Yet
This song deals with just gone along with the flow and doing things you like doing. Long may it continue! We love 'The Travelling Wilburys' and I hope some of their joy of life is in this song.
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Small Town
The idea behind this song is that despite us living in England, apparently safe and sound in our cosy towns on our temperate island, political apathy in a democracy is a destructive force. Perhaps as a nation, we should get a little more interested in world events and not be a nation of ostriches because who knows who might be thinking about taking over .......
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Lighthouse
This song is about finding and keeping a loving relationship going through the twisting paths and the storms of life. A lovely song.
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He's in the jailhouse Now
We cover this country classic, because we love it!
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Perverted Artist
This song was written by the late John Osborn, aka Billy Karloff. In John's memory, we play it with London pride.
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Grey's the New Blonde
Henry Priestman's song describes perfectly getting older but still being in love. Not that hot youngster love, but the mature, joint love of middle age. We wish we'd written it!
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Bara/Oidche Bha
I’m still not certain who wrote this song. The tune is ‘The Banks of Sicily’ a well-known Scottish piping air. But who wrote the words? I learned it from a cassette of Gaelic music given to me by John ’Tonkain’ McDonald’s niece, Mari McDonald, a Lewis woman, in the mid 1990’s. I went to the Western Isles to search for the origin of this song in the summer of 2016. I played the song during a packed pub ceilidh at HebCelt Festival in Stornaway and asked if anyone had ever heard it. Someone had. Alex from Skye gave me the connection. He knew it as Oidche Bha (Goodnight) from The Vatersay Boys. Indeed, they cover it on their 2007 album 'An Rathad a Bhatersaigh' (The Road to Vatersay). Did one of the Vatersay Boys write the words?
Botany Bay
This song is usually played really fast. We play it much slower so we can concentrate on the lyrics which are intense and beautiful. Our version was written as a musical piece for ‘Little Jack Sheppard’ a musical burlesque in 1885. It seems to derived from the traditional Irish ’Mush mush’ (sung rather well in ‘The Quiet Man’ film), but is English for all that. Our version was composed by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. The lyrics we sing are mainly from Kate Rusby’s heavenly version of the song on her 1999 album ’Sleepless’.
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Ride On
We cover Christy Moore's beautiful song and we do a few other Irish folk tunes besides. You can't beat a good Irish song to sing.
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