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Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton: Burning Bright

Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton: Burning Bright (WildGoose WGS445CD)

Burning Bright
Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton

WildGoose Studios WGS445CD (CD, UK, 1 March 2024)

Recorded by Doug Bailey at WildGoose Studios;
Notes by Pete Cooper;
Photos by Sue Lee and Rafe Culpin;
Cover painting by Abel Kesteven

Folking.com review by Graham Brown

Musicians

Pete Cooper: fiddle, vocals;
Richard Bolton: guitar, 7-string guitar, cello, harmony vocals

with
Raph Mizraki: percussion [4, 12-13], double bass [12]

Tracks

  1. Shepton Mallet / Radstock Jig (4.03)
  2. Dene & Pearl: Farewell to the Dene / The Pearl Wedding (3.58)
  3. Coilsfield House / Cropie’s Strathspey (3.32)
  4. Bavno Pomashko / Rucenitsas (5.46)
  5. London (3.43)
  6. Wm. Pitt / Willie Is a Bonny Lad (2.32)
  7. Acton Township (3.46)
  8. Mountain Brigands’ Dances (3.32)
  9. Wille the Weeper (4.16)
  10. Harper’s Frolic / Bonnie Kate (4.01)
  11. Fiocco’s Allegro (3.46)
  12. Cuffey (3.45)
  13. Tico-Tico no Fubá (2.57)

Tracks 1ab, 6ab, 10ab trad.;
Tracks 2ab Wilie Taylor (1916-2000);
Track 3a Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831);
Track 3b Alexander Givan (1824-1908);
Track 4a Macedonian trad.;
Track 4b Bulgarian trad.;
Track 5 Text William Blake (1757-1827), music Dave Arthur;
Track 7 Richard Bolton;
Track 8 Polish trad.;
Track 9 Ernest Rogers (1897-1967);
Track 11 Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703-1741);
Track 12 American trad.;
Track 13 Zequinha de Abreu (1880-1935);
Tracks 1-3, 5-11 arr. Pete Cooper and Richard Bolton;
Tracks 4, 12-13 arr. Pete Cooper, Richard Bolton, Raph Mizraki