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Patti O’Doors: The World Turned Upside Down

Patti O’Doors: The World Turned Upside Down (MEK MEK 002)

The World Turned Upside Down
Patti O’Doors

MEK Records MEK 002 (LP, UK, January 1986)

Engineered by Kev Jackson, assisted by Steve Hall;
Produced by John Tams & Kev Jackson;
Recorded at MEK Studios, Nottingham, November 1985

Musicians

Tom Donohoe: accordion, claves;
Karl Moore: guitar, fiddle, vocals [3, 11];
Billy Patton: tenor banjo, 5 string banjo, mandolin, fiddle [6-7, 11], rhythm bouzouki, vocals [8];
Garry Robson: bodhrán, congas, cabasa, vocals [4, 6, 11];
Kelvin Steele: bouzouki, whistle, mandolin [1, 4, 10], guitar [9]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Midnight on the Water Texas waltz (1.02)
  2. Paddy Now Won’t You Be Easy / A Fig for a Kiss / An Phis Pluich slip jigs (4.00)
  3. Ballad of the Working Man (3.56)
  4. Factory (3.02)
  5. Miss Thompson’s / Pretty Maggie Morissey / The Long Note hornpipes (4.43)
  6. Biko (6.23)

Side 2

  1. Farewell to Gibraltar: The 79th Highlanders’ Farewell to Gibraltar Scottish march / Langstrom’s Pony jig / The Boys of Malin reel (5.50)
  2. Victor Jara (6.12)
  3. The Tipsy Sailor slow reel (3.59)
  4. Midnight on the Water (reprise) Texas waltz (3.00)
  5. The World Turned Upside Down (3.40)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 1, 10 Benny Thompson;
Track 2 word Ian Campbell, music John Dunkerley;
Track 4 Bruce Springsteen;
Track 6 Peter Gabriel;
Track 8 words Adrian Mitchell, music Arlo Guthrie;
Track 11 Leon Rosselson