Subject: RE: Ampthill uk Presents Jon Heslop
From:
Cats
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 03:34 PM
I'll tell you what he can offer that Bryant, Truscott and O'Connor can't - Cheap Boats, Last Fisherman, Candles, Life Boat Prayer, I'll take you Dancing Again, Old Soldiers, Ordinary Sorts of Men, Mackerel Drivers, Old Lady of Padstow, May Day Mayday, Lost, Like a Sailor to the Sea, The Last Time, Multitude's Shadow, Before the Sea Calls, the Lost Gardeners of Heligan, Stones, Coasts of Cornwall, Lament for the Oaks, Flowers etc etc. Johnny Collins, sings Cheap Boats and Jim Magean has some ready to learn too. And, if you look at the credits on Truscotts CD you will find the names Heslop and Wallis doing the vocals and harmonies and if you look on any Mabsant CD you will find Heslop in the credits. I could go on but it's too much like name dropping. In fact if you go into any singaround it's a good bet that you will hear a Heslop song - even to the extent that he was told that he shouldn't be singing locals songs in one pub in Wadebridge except it was his own song that they said had been theirs for years and years. You'll also find on some song lists his songs down as Trad!
We would love to send you a CD but we, honestly, have none! The last 4 are all total sell outs and at the moment we are concentrating on Unsung Heroes rather than making a new CD.
Next time you are in Cornwall come and hear him and you'll hear just what is so special..there again I'm biased!!!
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