 Many
of the UK’s big folk names rubbed shoulders
with local Norfolk acts in a major compact disc
project to raise substantial funds for
the Cromer Lifeboat.
A unique two disc set
entitled
‘Someone Was Calling’
features music and song from artists who have
appeared at Cromer’s ‘Folk on the Pier’ festival
over the last five years and includes
contributions from the likes of Fairport Convention, Oysterband, Sid Kipper, and Show of Hands, as well
as Norfolk acts such as Dan Platton, XiM, the
Sheringham Shantymen and last but not least the
Cromer Smugglers.
The double CD
set
retails for around the same price as a single full
price pop album and is be packed with no less than
thirty-four tracks with a playing time of over two
and a half hours. All of the tracks, some previously
unreleased, no longer commercially available or
recorded specially for the project, as for example
Sid Kipper’s ‘Whaleman’s Lament’, have a
mixture of nautical themes demonstrating a diversity
of styles ranging from songs about sailors on leave
to the fears of rounding Cape Horn, the loneliness
of lighthouse keepers to the leaving of loved ones,
and even racism on Titanic’s maiden voyage!
An album of contrasts that pulls no punches,
‘Someone Was Calling’ features folk rock
band Meet on the Ledge’s seven minute magnum opus ‘The Mary Stanford of Rye’, which has a chilling chorus line
of ‘Johnny come home, they all sing from
the pier’,
while recounting the sombre tale of a famous Sussex
lifeboat tragedy, whilst Ashley Hutching’s
‘The Crabfish’ demonstrates a
humorous and somewhat risqué slant on a world-famous
Cromer delicacy!
By way of a musical journey
the album starts albeit appropriately with Show of
Hands’ ballad ‘The Shout’ and concludes with ‘Calm
Waters’, an instrumental by festival favourite and
eminent fiddle player Tom Leary. Outside of artists
already mentioned, disc one of the set will feature
mainly acoustic style music from Harvey Andrews, Jez
Lowe and Last Night’s Fun, while the second disc
majors on the more electric and ‘rockier’ acts such
as Little Johnny England, Tickled Pink and the now
sadly disbanded reggae folk fusionists Edward II,
who played the festival in its inaugural year.
Track Details:
|
Disc One - ‘Mainly
Acoustic'
Show of Hands - The
Shout
Steve Tilston - Salty
Dog
Harvey Andrews - The
Navy’s in Dock
Jez Lowe & the
Bad Pennies - The Bergen
Hoover the Dog -
Albania Quick March/Out on the Ocean
Real Time - The
Leaving
Cromer Smugglers - A
New Dawn
Sid Kipper - The
Whaleman’s Lament
Kevin Dempsey &
Joe Broughton - Leaving on a High Tide (Marea Alta)
Old Rope String Band
- Mutiny
'Ansome Cabin Buoys -
Sailor’s Hornpipe/Trumpet Hornpipe
Sheringham Shantymen
- Home From the Sea
Fraser Nimmo - The
Titanic
Emma Williamson - The
Golden Vanity
Last Night’s Fun -
Garret Barry’s/Fraher’s Jig/The Tempest
Bernard Hoskin -
Beneath the Waves
Dan Platton - Out
Through the Town
XiM - Deux Airs au
Bateau de Sauvetage |
Disc Two - ‘Mainly
Electric'
Oysterband - Sail on
By
Strawhead - Ten
Thousand Miles Away
Fairport Convention -
Close to You
The Tabs - Conga Reel
Togmor - The
Fisherman
Chris While &
Julie Matthews - Blind Faith
Bob Fox - Water of
Tyne/Big River
Phil Beer Band -
Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
Ashley Hutchings -
The Crabfish
John Tams - All
Clouds the Sky
Shave the Monkey -
The Wrecking of Annie
Edward II - 'list for
a Sailor
Little Johnny England
- Solway Dawn/Race to the Summit
Tickled Pink - Cape
Horn
Meet on the Ledge -
Mary Stanford of Rye
Tom Leary - Calm
Waters |
