Lal Waterson Tribute album

Subject: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: johnlwilliams
Date: 22 Oct 07 - 10:28 AM

Thought people might be interested in this new collection of covers of Lal Waterson songs (plus a couple from Lal's singing but not written by her). It's on Honest Jon's Records, it's called Migrating Bird, Here's a track listing, and below that a link to the Honest Jon's site where you can here snippets of the album.

1. Fine Horseman - King Creosote
2. Cornfield - Elizabeth, Nancy
3. At First She Starts - Yorkston, James
4. Red Wine Promises - Williams, Victoria
5. So Strange Is Man - Blackwell, Lavinia & Alex Neilson
6. Bird - Roberts, Alasdair
7. How Can I Leave - Hurley, Michael
8. Wilson's Arms - Danny & The Champions Of The World
9. Her White Gown - Greig, Charlotte
10. Stumbling On - Nichols, Jeb Loy
11. Never The Same - Crowley, Adrian
12. Memories - James, Richard
13. Phoebe - Grant, Willard Conspiracy
14. Dazed - Sabbath Folk
15. Song For Thirza - Woolsey, Lindsey
16. Welcome Sailor - Youngs, Richard
17. To Make You Stay - Memory Band
18. John Ball - Olson, Mark
19. Migrating Bird - Bunyan, Vashti

http://www.honestjons.com/shop.php?pid=31513&g=1

cheers

John

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: GUEST,The Hut People
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 07:01 AM

Saw the Lal Waterson Project at Whitby Musicport where we were playing this weekend. It was a superb set of songs and gave me my first acquaintance with Lal's work. Put together by Jo Freya, it went down very well. They also have a cd out.

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 12:34 PM

Thanks very much Hut, making more people aware of Lal's incredible song writing was exactly what the Project was about. The new albums include quite a lot of different songs by her - 'Lal', the one by Jo Freya's LWP on No Masters has -

1. Midnight Feast
2. Dazed
3. Wilson's Arms
4. Song for Thirza
5. Together
6. Long Vacation
7. The Bird
8. May Butterfly
9. Party Games
10. Flight of the Pelican
11. Some Old Salty
12. Bath Time
13. Foolish One
14. Stumbling On
15. Migrating Bird

Lal was a longstanding member of No Masters and is still much missed. It's great to see lots of new interest in her work.

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 01:02 PM

Yes, of course it's brilliant that there is lots of new interest in Lal Waterson's work and I welcome the Honest Jon release and the Jo Freya project.

What's really needed though is a breakthrough in the Bright Phoebus impasse and for that former Trailer LP to emerge on a proper CD with royalties paid to the surviving artist Mike Waterson, Lal's brother. And all the rest of the Leader/Trailer catalogue to be released from custody in Harrogate.

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 05:12 AM

Just wonder if Mike would consider remaking Bright Phoebus with Lal's daughter and all the original musicians just to be able to say to the Harrogate Mafia "It's been nice doing business on you!"

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: GUEST,Ian cookieless
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 06:08 AM

What a great idea, buspassed. Heard Maria Gilhooley, Lal's daughter, sing at the Albert Hall (Watersons' Mighty River of Song) and was genuinely shocked and spooked by how like her mother she sounds.

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: Mick Tems
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 06:57 AM

My review of the CD Lal, by the Lal Waterson Project, will be published in Taplas, the all-Wales and the Borders folk magazine, in the December/January issue (number 145). In brief, it's an album of stunning beauty, a fine memorial to an original and unique songwriter - five stars.

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: johnlwilliams
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 09:17 AM

For what it's worth, two songs from Bright Phoebus, plus a bunch of other wonderful Leader/Trailer stuff, are available on the Honest Jon's compilation Never The Same. There's a full tracklisting and more info here

http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=27428&LabelID=14815

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: GUEST,The Ballad of The Bold Researcher
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 01:35 PM

"What's really needed though is a breakthrough in the Bright Phoebus impasse and for that former Trailer LP to emerge on a proper CD with royalties paid to the surviving artist Mike Waterson, Lal's brother. And all the rest of the Leader/Trailer catalogue to be released from custody in Harrogate"

Unfortunately these things will not come to pass in our life-times I don't think...and the keeping of the inmates in Harrogate Gaol for all this time (there's a song there somewhere...) makes less and less sense.

Subject: RE: Lal Waterson Tribute album
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 04:55 PM

Now BBCtv has now got the Electric Prom Lal Waterson tribute in the can and they must have access to the transmission rights of both the 1966 Waterson documentary 'Travelling for a Living' and Eliza Carthy's BBC4's session at London Union, so what about, as next year is the 10th anniversary of Lal's death, a much deserved Waterson tribute night on BBC4 in 2008?