Paul Mc Neill records

Subject: Paul Mc Neill records
From: DonMeixner
Date: 25 Jan 00 - 09:22 PM

The Paul Mc Neill recording I have is called Traditionally At The Troubadour and its on Decca but I believe it was recorded in the 60's The songs include:

The Keeper,

The Twa Corbies.

To The Beggin' I will Go,

The Penny and The Apricot Tree

Mother Get Up Unbar The Door,

Rhue (Come All Ye Fair And Tender Girls)

This is to my way of thinking a perfectly produced album. The instrumentation is minimal with an added 12 String by Trevor Vietch (Pentangle?). This is the only bit of Paul Mc Neill I've ever heard but it is exceptional.

Don

Subject: RE: Paul Mc Neill records
From: Lanfranc
Date: 26 Jan 00 - 06:38 PM

I have a very battered piece of vinyl that used to be Paul McNeill's 1965 debut album for Decca. Perhaps modern technology could clean it up!

Tracks are: Side 1 - 1 The Sound of Silence ( the first recording of this I ever heard ): 2 Sparrow : 3 It Ain't Me Babe : 4 April, Come she will : 5 The Town Crier : 6 One Day Old : 7 A Church is Burning Side 2 - 1 My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove : 2 By the Window : 3 The Leaves that are Green : 4 Brown Baby : 5 Erev Shel Shoshanim : 6 Child of Hiroshima : 7 The Last Thing on my Mind

A preponderance of Paul Simon tracks (McNeill shared an apartment with Simon when the latter was living in the UK), a couple of Tom Paxton songs and a McNeill original (By the Window)

I also have the single that Paul cut with Linda Peters ( later better known, after her marriage to Richard, as Linda Thompson) which has a strange version of "You Ain't Going Nowhere" coupled with another McNeill original "I'll show you how to sing".

From time to time I still sing two other songs that Paul wrote "King of Spain" and "The Garden" as well as "I'll show you how to sing"

Which he did. I roadied for him, and for Paul and Linda, ran Tuesday nights at the Troubadour in London with him for a while, and often wonder what happened to him.

The last I heard he was living rough - he was always a bit eccentric - but he was a good singer and a very solid guitarist.

Any further news, knowledge or rememberance would be welcome.

Subject: RE: Paul Mc Neill records
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Jan 00 - 09:28 PM

Alan,

My recording is alittle battered as well but then aren't we all. I'd be glad to tape it and swap it with you for a copy of your record. Send me a mailing address at [e-mail].

I find his voice perfect for the material and his guitar style is solid and just right for the music he chose on the record I have.

Regards

Don