Dancing Days (album) explained
| Dancing Days |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Chris Leslie |
| Cover: | Dancing Days (album).jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 2004 |
| Length: | 55:22 |
| Label: | Talking Elephant |
| Producer: | Chris Leslie |
| Prev Title: | The Gift |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
Dancing Days is an album by Chris Leslie, released in 2004.
Compared to Chris Leslie's earlier album The Flow, this is much more of a recognisable instrumental folk-rock effort. Occasionally Chris drifts off into a reverie that sounds like a monastery in Tibet, but this is less obvious than before. He gives a sprightly performance of many morris dance tunes, then adds the oriental effects as a variation at the end of some tracks, punctuated by finger cymbals.
Track listing
- "Flowers of Edinburgh/ Old Tom of Oxford" (Traditional)
- "Laudnum Bunches (Headington)/ Orange In Bloom (Sherbourne)/ Banks of the Dee (Longborough)" (Traditional / Traditional/ Traditional)
- "Bower Processional (Lichfield)" (Traditional)
- "Princess Royal (Adderbury)/ Speed The Plough (Bampton)" (Traditional)
- "Old Marlborough (Fieldtown)" (Traditional)
- "The Dancer (song)" (Chris Leslie)
- "Jockey to the Fair (Adderbury)/ Double Jig (Bampton)" (Traditional/ Traditional)
- "Lumps of Plum Pudding (Bledington)/ Bean Setting (Headington)/ Bobbing a Joe (Wheatley)" (Traditional/ Traditional/ Traditional)
- "Sweet Jenny Jones (Adderbury) / Brighton Camp (Adderbury)/ Beaux of London City (Adderbury/ Badby)" (Traditional)
- "Stourton Wake and Jig (Adderbury)" (Traditional)
- "Haste to the Wedding (Adderbury) / Bluebells of Scotland (Adderbury) / Shepherd's Away (Adderbury)" (Traditional/ Traditional/ Traditional)
- "Bumpus O' Stretton (Ilmington)" (Traditional)
- "Janet Blunt Poem" (song) (words: Janet Blunt; tune: "Jamaica")
- "Morning Star (Bledington)/ Getting Upstairs (Headington)/ Wheatley Processional (Wheatley)" (Traditional/ Traditional/ Traditional)
- "A Secret" (medley *) (Traditional)
(* uncredited medley: Shepherd's Hey/ Bluebells of Scotland/ Brighton Camp/ sound of church bells/ Happy the Man (song))
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