Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 explained

Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2
Type:Live album
Artist:Ivor Cutler
Cover:IvorCutlerLifeinaScotchSitt.jpg
Released:1978
Recorded:3rd Eye Centre, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow 7 July 1977–9 July 1977
Genre:Spoken word
Length:53:14
Label:Harvest
Prev Title:Jammy Smears
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Privilege
Next Year:1983

Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1978. It was recorded live in Cutler's native Glasgow, and tells stories from his childhood growing up in a middle-class family around the time of the Great Depression.[1]

The poems and stories from the album were also published as a book in 1984.[2]

The sleeve notes include the following:

"Recorded by Pete Shipton of Radio Clyde at the 3rd Eye Centre, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, on the 7th, 8th, 9th of July, 1977.

Edited by Seán Murphy & Pat Stapely, and Master Record cut by Mick Webb.

All tracks registered with P.R.S and M.C.P.S and ©1977 Ivor Cutler.

Sleeve front - Helen Oxenbury ©1977. Lettering - Phyllis April King.

Deep gratitude to Al Clark and Seán Murphy."

Episodes 1 and 3 were tracks on the 1974 album Dandruff, although there is a discrepancy in the title shown for one of the tracks on that album compared with the track titles on Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol.2. Four other episodes in total were previously recorded on Velvet Donkey and Jammy Smears.

Track listing

(All tracks written by Ivor Cutler)

Side one
  1. "Episode 2" – 4:55
  2. "Episode 3" – 3:45
  3. "Episode 9" – 3:40
  4. "Jungle Tip: Owl" – 0:44
  5. "Episode 1" – 3:12
  6. "Episode 11" – 4:02
  7. "Jungle Tip: Lion" – 0:45
  8. "Episode 5" – 3:13
  9. "Episode 14" – 3:53
Side two
  1. "Episode 7" – 3:54
  2. "Episode 12" – 4:10
  3. "Jungle Tip: Leopard" – 0:41
  4. "Episode 8" – 3:52
  5. "Episode 6" – 2:47
  6. "Episode 4" – 3:44
  7. "Jungle Tip: Boa" – 0:31
  8. "Episode 13" – 5:22
  9. "Episode 0" – 0:00

Notes and References

  1. Mason, Stewart. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r34503|pure_url=yes}} Review]. Allmusic. Retrieved 11 Mar. 2006.
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