Martin Simpson - Live (1996)

Tracklist

01. Dreamtime
02. Forgotten the Blues
03. Donal Og-My Generous Lover-The Coo Coo Bird-Santa Cruz
04. Betsy the Serving Maid
05. Hard Love
06. Broke Down Engine
07. Bogie's Bonnie Belle-Rosie Anderson-The Shearing's Not for You
08. The Company You Keep
09. Lord Gregory
10. Lilith
11. Pretty Saro-Long Steel Rail
12. The First Cut is the Deepest-Will This House Be Blessed

Fans of Simpson's meld of traditional Celtic and the blues and spirituals of African-Americans can get a taste of a Simpson performance in this one-man acoustic show, performed at the Holywell Music Room at Oxford in October 1994. The artist is in excellent form throughout. His acoustic guitar is the perfect backdrop for his smoky voice. The songs are uniformly superb, whether from traditional sources or Simpson's own pen. Especially effective is "Lilith," which he dedicates to victims of bigotry and violence, and the opening "Dreanitime," written for and about Nipper Kapirigi, tribal elder of the Australian Kakadu tribe.

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