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Between Suffolk Pink and Essex Blue

by Chris Pitts

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Bill Badger (free) 03:26
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Dancing in the Dark (free) 04:23
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Rainbow Trout in Fen Street Water (free) 02:36
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Shony's Golden Pipe (free) 02:50
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Between Suffolk Pink and Essex Blue (free) 03:26
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Tea at Tangleweeds (free) 03:19
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The Socialite of Mull Street (free) 03:26
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Tom Bowler's Days (free) 02:44
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Virginia the Carnival Queen (free) 04:30
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Webb's Meadow (free) 04:01
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Billy Pitts and the Wrong Ford Cortina! (free) 02:47
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"Following on from his first album "Nayland - A Cuckoo Crying", this latest collection of songs by Chris Pitts sneaks up on you. He weaves a tapestry of music that evokes the spirit of places from rural England. Not a romantic past, but an urgent present with its moods and characters filling the spaces in his art."
"His collaboration with a close and dear friend on the song "Virginia the Carnival Queen" is itself a part of this landscape, and is as much part of the picture as the moods and emotions it stirs in the conscious mind."
"This album is not to be taken lightly. The places and characters are real - not the fantastic inventions of imagination. I know this to be true because I have seen these places and met the people. Now you can too!"
Mark Surridge (Castle Folk)
"Chris Pitts' musical language. although rooted in the traditions of the 1960' s and 70's, and with more than a nodding acquaintance to Bob Dylan, is often unique and surprising."
"Gathering inspiration from not only the people and places of his native Suffolk, he looks widely not only to Dylan but also to music of the great masters such as Mozart and Vaughan-Williams. Long associations with several fine instrumentalist such as Chris Gibson (violin) who unashamedly blows his own trumpet in this little critique, and Rory Duncan (keyboard), both of whom can be heard on this album, have enabled Chris to experiment widely with musical textures that fit the uniqueness of his songs, from the sad and serious to the just plain daft!"
Chris Gibson (Cavendish Consort)

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released December 24, 2015

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Milborn House Colchester, UK

Chris Pitts writes in the tradition of English landscape poets. He uses the medium of ‘Symphonic folk’ to give a sense of Pathos to his work.
Although a lot of his work is melancholy it is by no means all like that, the thumping fervour of Arnold Plum tells us that he can be tongue in cheek even when the lyric is serious.

Mark Surrudge

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