MK041
MK041
JOHNNY COPPIN
THE WINDING STAIR
This
new collection is from England, Ireland,
Scotland,
and the USA- and is a mix of new songs
plus
some favourite tracks from my Folk Roots
Show
on BBC Radio Gloucestershire every Sunday.
As
well as the title track, the songs include two
recently
co-written with Mike Silver, Reunion Hill
(by
Richard Shindell), The Sun's
Coming Over
The
Hill (by Karine Polwart), traditional songs
Lakes
of Coolfin and Donegal Rain (trad arr Andy
M
Stewart), Peace Descends (by Paul Metsers),
From
Severn by the Somme (by Martin Graebe).
In
addition there are my settings of two poems -
The
Fire Kindled by Ivor Gurney ( as seen on
HTV's
Between Two Rivers series) and The Lost
Orchard
by Shropshire writer Mary Webb.
The album was co-produced with and engineered by Mick Dolan and playing on the album are Mike Silver acoustic guitar and vocals, Paul Burgess violin and recorders, Phil Beer (from Show of Hands) - violin , Mick Dolan acoustic guitar , John Neilson accordion and bouzouki and Geoff March cello.