Cat No:
TICD005
Release Date: 22 June 2018
Label: Topic
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 714822000055
Genres: Folk English Folk
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Description
A personally selected and sequenced compilation by Martin Simpson. This new addition to Topic's series of introductory overviews of the label's most renowned artists includes an exclusively recorded track by Martin, a wonderful solo acoustic version of Leon Rosselson's 'Palaces of Gold' from his classic 1968 album A Laugh, A Song and a Hand Grenade. It's remarkable to think that Martin Simpson is now celebrating some 45 years as a professional musician since, unlike so many of the Topic greats, Simpson was not part of the 50s folk revival or the more expansive contemporary folk scene of the 60s. Effectively, Martin Simpson has spearheaded the generation of folk musicians who only began recording in the mid-70s and is now readily acknowledged as one of the most original and skillful folk guitarists currently playing on the British and American folk scene. It was as a defining instrumentalist and interpreter of predominantly traditional British and American folk material that Simpson first established himself. Yet, as this new selection amply testifies, he has become a highly gifted songwriter. He first made a significant mark as a songwriter on 2003's Righteousness & Humidity with a handful of songs that included the evocative truck stop epic 'Love Never Dies'. Since then he has continued to deliver powerful compositions, none more poignant than the remarkable 'Banjo Bill' (from 2011's Purpose & Grace), based upon the words of Banjo Bill Cornett of Hindman, Kentucky, which testifies to the breadth and scope of Simpson's writing. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Bones And Feathers
- 2. Never Any Good
- 3. Banjo Bill
- 4. Dives and Lazarus
- 5. Love Never Dies
- 6. Brothers Under The Bridge
- 7. Clerk Sanders
- 8. Love Henry
- 9. She Slips Away
- 10. Will Atkinson
- 11. Sir Patrick Spens
- 12. Dark Swift and Bright Swallow
- 13. John Hardy
- 14. Thomas Drew
- 15. First Cut Is The Deepest
- 16. Delta Dreams
- 17. Palaces Of Gold (2018)
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