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Thread #5847   Message #33652
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
29-Jul-98 - 07:55 PM
Thread Name: Information about UK folk singer Chris Foster
Subject: RE: Chris Foster
He has two LP's, both deleted. All Things In Common, which Susan mentions above, I have on tape. Layers I have on LP and not with me as I type this. Unlike All Things In Common, all songs on Layers are tradtional. If memory serves me right:

Banks of Newfoundland
The Flower of Serving Men
The Golden Glove
Lady Maisry
The Ranter
The Coast of Peru
Jack The Sailor

And at least one other song about a man poisoning his lover, the title of which escapes me.

Both are deleted and you'll have to search the used vinyl bins. One of the folk vinyl people who advertise in rec.music.folk had a copy of Layers but that was some time ago. I've been after All Things In Common on vinyl for some time.

He has a tape out, which when I bought it last year was 15 pounds for two shipped to Canada. The tape is called Sting In The Tale, and doesn't include the song of that name, and includes:

The Coast of Peru
Herring's Head
The Black Fox
The Fowler
Unicorns
The Grey Cock
The Neighbour's Cat
Flying High, Flying Free
Rufford Park Poachers
The Derby Ram
The False Knight (This isn't the usual False Knight On The Road, but another song about a lady outwitting a false knight by chucking him in the sea, and a cat and a parrot figure too.)
Wo Sind Die Elephanten?

It can be ordered from him at 11 Osborne Street, Burton Upon Trent, UK 0283 61473. (The songs on the tape that were on his earlier album were re-recorded)

I wrote to him by e-mail once, and he advised me that he was going to put out a new CD, but I don't know what became of that. It is possible that some of his songs are on the new series of CD's that Topic is releasing.