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Bill's latest CD
Dusty Boots On A Gravel Road
available now
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"Dusty Boots on a Gravel Road"
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3540034
Dusty Boots on a Gravel Road contains both new songs by Bill, including the beautiful Ireland, I Miss You, which he wrote with Irish singer/songwriter Mary Kathleen Burke, and some fresh interpretations of songs by Robert Burns, Ewan MacCall, Billy Edd Wheeler, and Bill's much requested arrangement of Robin Laing's 'Black Clothes'.
This is a very personal album which varies in mood and arrangement. Most of the songs are recorded simply, with just voice and guitar, although several have been given added depth with rich harmonies and some fine cello playing. It is, in many ways, a longing for a time long past when things were simpler, people were kinder and the world moved much more slowly.
Death, homesickness, homelessness, and social injustice all have a place here and it is hoped that as you listen to the music and meditate on the words you will find something with which you can identify. Either way, if it makes you think, then the job as a writer and singer of songs has been done.
Full Track Listing
St James Infirmary
Stumble and Fall
Ye Banks and Braes
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ireland, I Miss You
Come Home, Robert Johnson
Black Clothes/She Moved Through the Fair
Hobo’s Lullaby
The Soldier's Wife
Living a Lie (The Ballad of Helen Percy)
Schooldays' End
Dusty Boots on a Gravel Road
STILL AVAILABLE
Along The Miners’ Rows
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"Along The Miners' Rows"
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3540030
On the 18th of September 1959, smoke and fumes from an underground fire at Auchengeich Colliery in the small North Lanarkshire mining community of Bridgend caused 47 miners to lose their lives in what was the worst mining accident in Scotland in the 20th century.
Written and released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Auchengeich Minining disaster in 1959 the album contains such tracks as 'Along The Miners' Rows', 'How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live' and 'The Day That All The Lights Went Out'.
Along The Miners' Rows not only commemorates the disaster, but also portrays a way of life and a community spirit that today has all but gone.
Full Track Listing
Playground Chorus
Along The Miners' Rows
Where Can A Miner Go?
Blind Mary
Digging Coal
Pithead Moan
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
Jean Murray Ballantyne
The Miner's Widow's Lament
Along The Miners' Rows (Reprise)
The Day That All The Lights Went Out
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