| 1. Crazy Aunt Cottage |
| A lullaby for my brother’s unborn child. |
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| 2. The Bluebell Herd |
| Inspired by a herd in the Farmer’s Weekly and necessary catharsis for me during the FMD catastrophe. But it all ends happily… |
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| 3. Pretty Nancy |
| On 6th January 1905, folk song collector Cecil Sharp collected this song from my daughter’s great great grandmother, Frances Haskings in Rackenford, Devon. This is my piano arrangement of the tune. |
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| 4. The Sea and the Soil |
| Where does your food actually come from? And what is the true cost? ‘Think, think when you buy, think what you’re throwing away.’ |
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| 5. Sedgemoor 1685 |
| The last battle on English soil in the sodden peat-lands of Somerset, ‘the pitchfork poor are called to war’. |
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| 6. Patio Song |
| A friend beaten by her husband and fresh out of casualty inspired this vengeful and a little bit naughty ditty. She now hums it around the house and when he asks ‘what are you singing?’, she replies ‘oh nothing’. The power of song. |
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| 7. The Greyman |
| One of my first song collaborations with Abbie Lathe. What a pleasure to record it with her after all these years. |
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| 8. Who Understands the Land? |
| Inspired by a gorgeous melody written by Cathy Ryan. Only farmers truly understand the land. Let’s not lose them. |
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| 9. Road to Araby |
| It’s pouring with rain, the calves need feeding, the mixer wagon has broken down (again), the cow man has called in sick and we’re out of bread, where to escape to….? |
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