Rough shod folk and songwriting from the Upper Calder Valley.
Six years is a long time to record an Album. There was even some times that I thought this might be a posthumous release... but here it is. 'Enjoy' might not be the right word to commend it to you with - but THANKS! Thanks for taking a copy off my hands...
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An invocation to a friend to go and love someone. He did and he does...
lyrics
Spring brings a Gladstone bag for your sorrows
An apothacary for your heart
A tincture of love for you all to swallow
To give you knowledge and the strength in arms
For all joy, for all joy, Oh joy for all.
So when you slumbered in your hibernation
Winter it captured a map of your scars
But in she runs with her preparations
For to soothe, and suffuse any champion collection of bruises
And for the first time in a centuary of days
Your feet they stamp and your hips they sway
In the cold herald that morning has raised up
In abyssful bliss to a tune that goes like this..
Come along and look in
And you'll see that love is the wonderful measure of all things
Come along and look in
And you will se that love is the wonderful measure of everything.
Of all things....
With one cold echo still winter did holler
Only hard truth is the equal to your sorrows
And if loss is a measure of love
Then without loss known we will be starving our souls
So for the first time in a centuary days
Your feet they stamp your hips they sway
In the cold herald that morning has raised up
All in Abyssful bliss.....
credits
from The Basin Stone,
released August 1, 2020
Simon Chantler plays Fiddles. Steve Smith plays Harmonium. Gareth sings.
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