New Album... ...Old Music

well, that's confusing... Phil's recorded a collection of tunes he's had swishing about for ages. It's a short album, 30 minutes, and embodies Phil's idiosyncratic notion of folk music, with a Yorkshire/American bent. 1: Redder’s Rag - P Snell A ditty noodled together 30+ years ago. 2: Cold and Frosty Morning - trad arr P Snell A brisk Old-Time tune, much inspired by the Fuzzy Mountain String Band. 3: Chump Man Blues - Blind Blake arr P Snell Blind Blake’s song illustrating the malleability of men 4: Don’t Go Looking At Me - P Snell A tale of Urban paranioa, the city’s no place for us country folk! Interspersed with “the Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman”, a French Canadian tune 5: St Louis Tickle + Hawkin’s Rag - trad arr P Snell/Ted Hawkins arr P Snell A bit of ragtime. 6: Alcohol Island - P Snell It’s scary to think how easy it is to get into a real mess 7: Old Mother Flanagan/Lookin’ for money - trad arr Phil Snell/Al Urban- Rockin’ Music Another brisk Old-Time tune followed by the tale of Staggering Willie’s search for money. 8: Pas De Chance - P Snell How are we to defeat the dangerous madmen dominating our media? Ignore them, I say! The fabulous Sue Coe provides the dance steps. There’s even a bit of “Turkey in the Straw” in there. 9: The Black Sheep - P Snell A gentle waltz in 3/4 time - Black Sheep is a favourite beer of mine! Cheers! 10: Took My Gal A-Walking - Poole/Woodleiff - Bug Music Ltd A song I got from a Charlie Poole recording made in 1928. He is one of my favourite old time performers. 11: Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine - trad arr P Snell This tune is usually played fast, but I was thinking about the times armies crossed the Rhine en route for Moscow and how, each time, millions of people who were scratching an existence were murdered and abused; this informed the melancholic rendition..