Johnny Coppin - The Gloucestershire Collection

The Gloucestershire Collection (1994)
Red Sky RSKCD015/107

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“A most beautiful and moving record” - English Dance and Song
“Warmly recommended” Folk Roots

Songs of Gloucestershire and beyond - a follow-up to the Forest & Vale album and the BBC TV programme. Released in May 1987 to excellent reviews. A further collection of poems set to music that include Eva Dobell's "Tom Long's Post", Frank Mansell's "The Holy Brook", John Masefield's "Everlasting Mercy", Ivor Gurney's "East Wind" and "The High Hills", Leonard Clark's "English Morning" and "The Hill" and Edward Berryman's "Cotswold Tiles".

Musicians include Phil Beer, Trevor Foster, Matt Clifford, Paul Metsers, Bill Zorn, Geoff March and Steve Dolan.

Engineered by Mick Dolan. Produced by Johnny Coppin.

1. In Flanders (4.16)
2. A Song of Gloucestershire (3.19)
3. Piper's Wood (2.51)
4. Fishermen of Newnham (3.32)
5. Cotswold Love (2.38)
6. Briar Roses (3.10)
7. Legacy (2.26)
8. Warning (2.29)
9. The High-Road (3.55)
10. Field of Autumn (3.19)
11. Cotswold Lad (2.33)
12. Song of Minsterworth Perry (0.34)
13. Have Wandered (3.10)
14. The Cotswold Farmers (4.03)
15. This Night The Stars (3.05)
16. English Morning (3.46)
17. Everlasting Mercy (2.46)
18. Dover's Hill (2.29)
19. The Hill (3.43)
20. Tom Long's Post (2.51)
21. The High Hills (2.57)
22. The Holy Brook (3.09)
23. East Wind (3.24)
24. Winter (2.50)
25. Cotswold Tiles (1.19)
26. The Roads Go Down (3.20)

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