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The Rough Guide to Coope Boyes & Simpson

The Rough Guide to Coope Boyes & Simpson (World Music RGNET 1261 CD)

The Rough Guide to Coope Boyes & Simpson
Coope Boyes & Simpson

World Music Network RGNET 1261 CD (2 CD, UK, 2011)

This is a bonus CD added to the anthology The Rough Guide to English Folk.

Musicians

Barry Coope, Jim Boyes, Lester Simpson, vocals

Tracks

  1. The Forward March (2.33)
  2. Horkstow Grange (Roud 1760) (3.46)
  3. Fairground Attraction (4.06)
  4. Uttoxeter Souling Song (Roud 304) (1.14)
  5. Heaven’s Waiting Room (4.01)
  6. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (4.10)
  7. Living It Up (4.31)
  8. The Sea Must Have an Ending (3.59)
  9. The River Flows (5.14)
  10. Twenty-Four Seven (3.36)
  11. Cold Coasts of Iceland / Three Ships (6.46)
  12. Shuffling Jack (2.25)
  13. Since the Exodus Began (3.23)
  14. Shallow Brown (Roud 2621) (3.17)

Track 1 Ernest Jones, Jim Boyes;
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 14 trad. arr. Barry Coope, Jim Boyes, Lester Simpson;
Tracks 3, 7-8, 10, 12 Lester Simpson;
Tracks 5, 9, 13 Jim Boyes;
Track 11 Mike Waterson

Tracks 1, 12-13 are from Falling Slowly (NMCD9, 1996);
Tracks 6, 14 are from Hindsight (NMCD11, 1998);
Track 7 is from Christmas Truce Kerstbestand (NMCD14, 1999);
Tracks 3, 9 are from Where You Belong: A Song Cycle for Belper (NMCD15, 1999);
Tracks 4-5, 8, 10-11 are from Twenty-Four Seven (NMCD20, 2002);
Track 2 is from Triple Echo: Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth and Percy Grainger (NMCD22, 2005)