Name: Home Recordings
Brand: Martin Simpson

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TSCD609

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-13

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0714822046091

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Martin Simpson

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Folk

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Topic

Martin Simpson is one of the world's premiere acoustic guitarists and a powerful songwriter with a rich, charactered voice. His playing, which in part defined the English steel string acoustic guitar sound, is idiosyncratic, instantly recognisable, and revered among guitar fans. His body of work is very diverse encompassing all types of traditional and acoustic music, and he has toured with everyone from June Tabor to Steve Miller.

In 1976 he recorded his first solo album "Golden Vanity".

In 1985 Martin married Jessica Ratcliffe, an American singer-songwriter and poet with whom he recorded few albums.

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New album of home recordings recorded during the 2020 lockdown. Includes sublime takes on songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Lyle Lovett and Robin Williamson.

Martin Simpson’s next album was going to be a live one. But the lockdown put paid to all that. Even so, this cloud does have a silver lining. And what a silver lining it is. Unable to play to audiences (Martin can average over 100 gigs a year) or go into a recording studio, the only solution was to record a new album at home and were it not for the gaggle of geese flying overhead (you can hear them on Lonesome Valley Geese) and the birds happily tweeting on the closing track, you perhaps wouldn’t know this wasn’t a studio album. Recorded by his regular producer, now neighbour, Andy Bell, the aptly-named, Home Recordings finds Martin singing and playing, literally amongst his beloved guitar and banjo collection and out on his Peak District-facing porch.

Home Recordings includes outstanding takes on Lyle Lovett’s Family Reserve (from his 1992 album, Joshua Judges Ruth), John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery (from his 1971 debut album), Robin Williamson’s October Song (from Incredible String Band's eponymous debut album, 1966) and of course, Bob Dylan’s These Times, They Are A-Changin,’ which sounds particularly apt in the current climate.

Home Recordings

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