21 July 2008
Kerr Fagan Harbron
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On their new CD, Station House, real life and musical duo English fiddler/singer Nancy Kerr and Australian singer/guitarist James Fagan are joined by concertina-ist/guitarist Robert Harbron for a set of English, Australian and American instrumentals and songs.
Now going by the name Kerr Fagan Harbron, they’re also joined by double bassist Colin Fletcher on 3 tracks of this CD recorded in Robin’s Hood Bay, North Yorkshire, where the band found musical magic as they rehearsed in the kitchen of the former station master’s house where they stayed while recording the album.
Playlist
Playlist
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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)
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CD Cut 8 - 'Kissing Tree Lane/I Wish'
Robert Harbron/Trad, new words and music by Nancy Kerr, arr Kerr Fagan Harbron
PRS/MCPS
Fellside FECD 211 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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Kerr Fagan Harbron - 'Station House'
5:54
(Part Austral perf: Robert Harbron enters solo, joined by James Fagan's guitar/bouzouki and Nancy Kerr's fiddle into instrumental that leads into song sung by Nancy that she learned from her mum Sandra)
Segue
1429
CD Cut 2 - 'Two Tears'
Eliza Carthy and Ben Ivitsky
Topic Records Ltd
Topic Records TSCD 571 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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Eliza Carthy - 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater'
4:14
(Distant concertina opens dramatic song about untrue love sung by Eliza with edgy string backing)
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CD Cut 13 - 'Lowlands'
Traditional, Arrangement: Mary McPartlan
Pub Not Spec
Mac P Productions MCPRCD 002 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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Mary McPartlan - 'Petticoat Loose'
3:45
(Mary sings with ornamented Irish voice with the Orbsen Choir on the old sea shanty about dreaming of a drowned lover's death)
Segue
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CD Cut 10 - 'Four Seasons'
Trad, arr Ilchi/Robin Haller/Matteo Scumaci
Riverboat UK Music (MCPS)
Intro 111 CD ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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Hanggai - 'Introducing Hanggai'
5:05
(Slow tolling beat on lutes and fiddles and the deep, harmonic-rich voices of the ensemble in a song that describes, in four verses, the four seasons)
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Segue
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CD Cut 5 - 'Farmhands and Masters'
Ron Puddlefoot
arr Kerr Fagan Harbron
PRS/MCPS
Fellside FECD 211 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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Kerr Fagan Harbron - 'Station House'
4:32
(Part Austral perf and arr: Droning viola and concertina back James' vocal on 1980s song about the effects of the First World War on the village of Aldbury Morris, dedicated to James' grandfather, Ken Fagan, a skilled farm labourer and former British artillery soldier who emigrated in 1957 to Australia)
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CD Cut 1 - 'Bright Lights, Big City'
Jimmy Reed
The Soul of Reed Music BMI
Blue Note Records 509999 5 04454 2 4 (Through EMI)
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - 'Two Men With the Blues'
5:20
(Mickey Raphael's unamplified harmonica and Wynton Marsalis' post-bop trumpet, Walter Blanding's post-Trane extravagant sax, Dan Nimmer's block chord piano and Willie's rough-as-guts acoustic guitar solo and combine with Willie's instantly-recognisable voice to make tension in this popular 12 bar blues)
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CD Cut 10 - 'Dust My Broom'
Robert Johnson/Elmore James
Arc Music Corp/Lehsem II LLC admin by Music and Media Int'l Inc. BMI
Blue Note Records 50999 5 07699 2 6 (Through EMI)
Cassandra Wilson - 'Loverly'
Four and a half minute excerpt
(Cassandra's quiet, deep, commanding voice and Marvin Sewell's go-for-it slide guitar feature in this laid-back refiguring of a famous 12 bar blues into an African-influenced 6/8 groove with Lekan Babalola' percussion)
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
