June Tabor & Martin Simpson - A Cut Above
I was looking at the mess in my studio the other day: heaps of CDs lay waiting to be filed, more on the floor lay waiting to be listened to.
In a separate work area away from the mixing desk and the microphone was a mountain of feathers, fur, thread and hooks waiting to be turned into fishing flies for a book I'm writing.
Just inside the door was a jumble of fishing rods all waiting to be put away - they'd been there since the end of the season.
So, I went to the pile of CDs, put one on the player, turned up the volume, rolled up my sleeves and set to.
By chance the CD I'd picked was one I'd bought only the other day - A Cut Above by and .
I still have it on vinyl from the year it was recorded, 1980, but I've been replacing all my old classics on plastic with CDs recently and this was one.
Lord above I'd forgotten how brilliant that album was.
When you get two wonderful musicians together the end result is not always the sum of the parts.
In this case they obviously pushed each other on to greater things because the end result is magnificent; just listen to Heather Down the Moor, Davy Lowston, Flash Company - they are magnificent; and you'll never hear a better version of Bill Caddick's Unicorns.
It almost made cleaning up the Augean Studios worthwhile.
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