5013929691728

It Suits Me Well - The Transatlantic Recordings: 1976-1983

Dave Swarbrick

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CRTREE017D

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Release Date:  18 November 2016

Label:  Cherry Tree / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5013929691728

Genres:  Folk  World Music  

  • Description

    Having played with The Ian Campbell Folk Group across the early 1960s, and collaborated with Martin Carthy on several duo albums, Swarb - to use his nickname - joined Fairport Convention and became an integral part of their classic albums such as Liege & Lief, at the vanguard of the late 60's electric folk rock scene.

    In 1976, Dave struck out on his own with the first of a string of six solo albums indulging his love of traditional music - a style of music his day-job band Fairport Convention had been moving away from at that point - helped by many respected guest musicians.

    Four of these largely instrumental albums are assembled on this new 2-CD, representing the totality of his solo work for the legendary folk imprint Transatlantic. His first two albums were simply entitled Swarbrick and Swarbrick 2: four tracks appear here for the first time ever on CD.

    After two further LPs for a Scandinavian label, Swarb returned to the Transatlantic fold for Smiddyburn, issued in 1981 on the company's more contemporary Logo imprint. The fourth album to be included here is Flittin', funded by Transatlantic but licensed out to a third party label, Spindrift, in 1983. Both albums are notable for featuring between them a clutch of performances by a one-off reunion of the legendary 1970 Full House Fairport line-up: Swarbrick, Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Heilanman/Drowsey Maggie
      • 2. Carthy's March
      • 3. The White Cockade/Doc Boyds Jig/ Durham Rangers
      • 4. My Singing Bird
      • 5. The Nightingale
      • 6. Once I Loved a Maiden Fair
      • 7. The Killarney Boys of Pleasure
      • 8. Lady in the Boat/Rosin the Bow/ Timor the Tartar
      • 9. Byker Hill
      • 10. The Ace and Deuce of Pipering
      • 11. Hole in the Wall
      • 12. Ben Dorian
      • 13. Hullichans/Chorus Jig
      • 14. The 79th's Farewell to Gibralter
      • 15. Arthur Mcbride/Snug in the Blanket
      • 16. The Athole Highlanders
      • 17. Shannon Bells/Fairy Dance/ Miss Mcleod's Reel
      • 18. The King of the Fairies
      • 19. Chief O'neill's Favourite/ Newcastle Hornpipe
      • 20. Sheebeg and Sheemore
      • 21. The Rocky Road to Dublin/ Sir Phillip Mchugh
      • 22. Planxty Morgan Mawgan
      • 23. The Swallows Tail/Rakes of Kildare/Blackthorn Stick
      • 24. Sheagh of Rye/the Friar's Breeches
      • 25. Derwentwater's Farewell/ the Noble Squire Dacre
      • 26. Teribus/Farewell to Aberdeen

      Disc 2

      • 1. Bonaparte's Retreat
      • 2. Shepherd's Hey
      • 3. Lord Inchiquin
      • 4. The Coulin
      • 5. Wat Ye Wha I Met the Streen/the Ribbons of the Redhead Girl/ Ril Gan Ainm
      • 6. Sir Charles Coote/Smiths
      • 7. I Have a Wife of My Own/Lady Mary Haye's Scotch Measure
      • 8. Wishing/the Victors Return/ the Gravel Walk
      • 9. When the Battle Is Over
      • 10. Sword Dance/the Young Black Cow
      • 11. Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen/the Hag With the Money/Sleepy Maggie
      • 12. It Suits Me Well
      • 13. The Brides March/the Keelmans Pertition/Shew Me the Way to Wallingford/Sword Dance
      • 14. Parthenia/Pittengardeners' Rant
      • 15. Grey Daylight/the Hawk/ the Ten Pound Fiddle
      • 16. Jamaica/With All My Heart
      • 17. Nathaniel Gow's Lament on the Occasion of the Death of His Brother/Rory of the Hills
      • 18. The Rakes of Sollohad
      • 19. Dr. Issacs Maggot/Cupids Garden
      • 20. Boadicea