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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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