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Coope Boyes & Simpson: In Flanders Fields

Coope Boyes & Simpson: In Flanders Fields (No Masters NMCD42)

In Flanders Fields
Coope Boyes & Simpson

No Masters NMCD42 (2 CD, UK, 4 August 2014)

Produced by Neil Ferguson, Piet Chielens, Barry Coope, Lester Simpson and Jim Boyes;
Track notes by Jim Boyes, Georgina Boyes, Piet Chielens, Barry Coope, Lester Simpson, John Tams;
Artwork by Manu Veracx for B.AD;
Cover photography by Thomas Sweetvaegher

Musicians

Barry Coope, Jim Boyes & Lester Simpson: vocals

with
Jude Abbott, Georgina Boyes, Neil Ferguson, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya, Ray Hearne, Belinda O’Hooley, Heidi Tidow, Lou Watts, Boff Whalley: vocals [1:3, 2:27];
Belinda O’Hooley: piano [1:7, 1:12];
Howard Mitchell: double bass [1:15];
Pete Bullock: piano [1:15, 2:20];
Fabien Degryse: guitar [1:16];
June Tabor: vocals [2:2];
Nigel Corbett: violin [1:17, 2:21]

Tracks

CD 1

  1. The Almanac (instrumental) (1.00)
  2. Fault Lines (2.53)
  3. England to Her Sons (1.49)
  4. The Sergeant Major’s Having a Time (1.13)
  5. The Burning Mill at Messines / The Bloody Fields of Flanders (1.56)
  6. Ao Tea Roa (2.30)
  7. Along the Menin Road (5.02)
  8. Lloyd George’s Beer (2.57)
  9. Goodbye Dolly Gray (1.15)
  10. Down Upon the Dugout Floor (4.13)
  11. Marching, Marching, Marching (1.44)
  12. Chorus Line / When the Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin (5.27)
  13. Soldier, Soldier (3.37)
  14. Little Man You’ve Had a Busy Day / Standing in Line (6.02)
  15. Roses of Picardy (3.52)
  16. Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire (Roud 9618) (3.27)
  17. When This Blasted War Is Over (3.57)
  18. The Rhyme of No Man’s Land (2.35)
  19. Tickler’s Jam (0.41)
  20. Onward Christian Soldiers (4.09)
  21. Living It Up (4.31)
  22. Peace on Earth (3.19)
  23. Tyne Cot At Night / I Want to Go Home (3.52)

Track 1 trad., Richard Brown † 1664;
Tracks 2, 6, 14b, 18, 21 Lester Simpson;
Track 3 poem William Noel Hodgson, tune Lauda Anima;
Track 4 trad., Parlez-vous;
Track 5a Pipe Major John Spoore;
Track 5b Pipe Major John McLellan;
Tracks 7, 23 Jim Boyes, trad.;
Track 8 Robert Patrick Weston, Bert Lee;
Track 9 Will D. Cobb, Paul Barnes;
Tracks 10, 12a, 20, 22 Jim Boyes;
Track 11 trad., tune Nicaea;
Track 12b trad., Red Wing, Kerry Mills;
Track 13 poem Rudyard Kipling, music Peter Bellamy;
Track 14a Mairice Sigler, Al Hofmann, Mable Wayne;
Track 15 Frederick Weatherly, Haydn Woods, 1916;
Tracks 16, 19 trad.;
Track 17 trad., tune Erie;

CD 2

  1. We’re Here Because We’re Here (1.54)
  2. Shule Agra (3.30)
  3. Rogues’ March (1.39)
  4. Flanders (3.23)
  5. Good Old General Haig (0.45)
  6. Can You Spare a Polly (2.48)
  7. 1815-1915 (0.24)
  8. Mendinghem / Bandaghem (2.19)
  9. There’s a Long, Long Trail (Roud 23525) (1.28)
  10. Do You Want Us to Lose the War (2.50)
  11. Carol for Carmen (3.44)
  12. Keep Your Head Down (0.38)
  13. The Sergeant and the Serving Girl (4.35)
  14. Fred Karno’s Army (0.43)
  15. Robin’s Song (2.01)
  16. Still in the Night (4.55)
  17. The Sailor’s Wife (2.22)
  18. Hill 60 (4.51)
  19. Shuffling Jack (2.25)
  20. Rose of No Man’s Land (2.07)
  21. The VADs (4.03)
  22. Perhaps (2.07)
  23. Lay Me Low (2.39)
  24. Marchlands (3.44)
  25. Spring 1919 (4.39)
  26. The Almanac (vocal) (1.42)
  27. Only Remembered (Roud 7557) (3.08)

Tracks 1-3, 17 trad.;
Tracks 4, 16, 18, 25 Jim Boyes;
Track 5 Lester Simpson, trad.;
Tracks 6, 11 John Tams;
Track 7 trad., Lester Simpson;
Tracks 8, 13, 19, 21, 24 Lester Simpson;
Track 9 Stoddard King, Alonzo Eliott, 1913;
Track 10 Robert Patrick Weston, Bert Lee, 1917;
Track 12 trad., tune Warton David, C.W. Murphy;
Track 14 trad., tune Aurelia, Samuel S. Wesley;
Track 15 anon., Jim Boyes, Lester Simpson;
Track 20 Jack Caddigan, James Alexander Brennan;
Track 22 trad., Piet Chielens, Lester Simpson, Barry Coope;
Track 23 trad., John Tams;
Track 26 trad., Richard Brown † 1664;
Track 27 Horatius Bonar, Ira D. Sankey, John Tams