Nayland a Cuckoo Crying, by Chris Pitts

Nayland a Cuckoo Crying

by Chris Pitts

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1.	Arnold Plum 03:24	info	buy track
2.	Horksley Hill 02:50		buy track
3.	Gertrude Sod-em-all 02:29		buy track
4.	Sixteen and in Nayland 03:12		buy track
5.	Drinking Tea and Whispering 02:14		buy track
6.	Last Swallow Flying Over Shadelow's Farm 02:51		buy track
7.	Old Bertha 01:50		buy track
8.	Josie and Billy Arguing at Withermarsh Green 03:28		buy track
9.	A Lonley Man and a Lonely Bird at Wiston Mill 04:11		buy track
10.	All Things Fade With the Reverend John Wade 03:39		buy track
11.	The Fire Bicycle (Live) 04:40		buy track
12.	Harvest Home 21:33		buy track

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"This album is full of well crafted songs that take a lifetime of experience about specific places, people and events and transmute those experiences into something universal. They trigger feelings, and sometimes memories, that belong to each of us as individuals and this album lets us know that we are not alone in our experiences. These songs are about an English way of life which, if you believe the modern communications media, has long disappeared."
"Chris Pitts proves through the use of song, one of humankind's oldest means of communication, that these lives do not belong in the dusty attic of the past. The life of Gertrude Sod 'Em All is still relevant today and there are people in the rural environment of England still living lives that revolve around God, the seasons and Nature, listen to The Fire bicycle if you doubt it. This is not an album about the past, it is about the present and makes us take thought for the future."
Mark Surridge (Castle Folk)
Footnote - Chris Writes:
This was recorded on an old four-track recorder. I think it is the most individual set of songs I have done. It tells the tale of village life long passed. I hope it shines a light on that old world gone for the listeners.

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released January 1, 2006

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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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