Hutchings,Ashley From Psychedelia To Sonnets CD

2016 release. Ashley Hutchings is renowned as the founder of Fairport Convention and other successful folk rock bands including Steeleye Span and the Albion Band. What is less well known about Ashley is his talent as a wordsmith. In 2014 he published his first book Words Words Words a personal selection of song lyrics, poems, sonnets and other writings that both span his entire career - and tell his story. This album recorded live in Ashley's company is an opportunity to listen to him tell the stories behind his writings, add detail to the history of the bands he has created and describe some of the many projects he has brought to fruition. To set the scene for some of the stories, Ashley has invited talented singers / multi-instrumentalist Ruth Angell and Becky Mills to create an atmospheric background. They will also read the female parts of several of the pieces that Ashley will talk about and accompany him on acoustic guitar, violin and harmonium on others.

1. Welcome to the World 2. Fairport Convention Sleevenote 3. About Dawn 4. One-Eyed Owl 5. 'Til the Time We Meet Again 6. The Pedalling Suffragettes 7. Rockery Rock 8. This Blessed Plot 9. A Batter Pudding for John Keats Sleevenotes 10. It Is Not for the Want of Will 11. One Day We Went to a Barn Dance 12. Trip to Bath/Welsh Girls 13. Two Thousand Years Is a Very Long Time 14. On Seeing Grace Slick Unexpectedly in a 1987 Television Rock Spectacular 15. The Complete Angler 16. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed 17. You Are What You Eat 18. Ten Miles Going There and Ten Miles Coming Back 19. The Song of Two Bridges 20. When She Sings in the Kitchen 21. Elegy - His Parting from Her 22. Ring on Her Finger 23. Westonbirt Sonnet 24. To Ireland I Made My Way 25. By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept Live - Sleevenote 26. Leeds Lullaby 27. Crocodile Line 28. Day of Days 29. Welcome to the World 30. The Sun Is God