Dancing Days (album)

Dancing Days is an album by Chris Leslie, released in 2004.

Dancing Days
Studio album by
Released2004
Length55:22
LabelTalking Elephant
ProducerChris Leslie
Chris Leslie chronology
The Gift
(1999)
Dancing Days
(2004)

Compared to Chris Leslie's earlier album The Flow, this is much more of a recognisable instrumental folk-rock effort. Occasionally Chris drifts off into a reverie that sounds like a monastery in Tibet, but this is less obvious than before. He gives a sprightly performance of many morris dance tunes, then adds the oriental effects as a variation at the end of some tracks, punctuated by finger cymbals.

Track listing

  1. "Flowers of Edinburgh/ Old Tom of Oxford" (Trad)
  2. "Laudnum Bunches (Headington)/ Orange In Bloom (Sherbourne)/ Banks of the Dee (Longborough)" (Trad / Trad/ Trad)
  3. "Bower Processional (Lichfield)" (Traditional)
  4. "Princess Royal (Adderbury)/ Speed The Plough (Bampton)" (Trad)
  5. "Old Marlborough (Fieldtown)" (Traditional)
  6. "The Dancer (song)" (Chris Leslie)
  7. "Jockey to the Fair (Adderbury)/ Double Jig (Bampton)" (Trad/ Trad)
  8. "Lumps of Plum Pudding (Bledington)/ Bean Setting (Headington)/ Bobbing a Joe (Wheatley)" (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
  9. "Sweet Jenny Jones (Adderbury) / Brighton Camp (Adderbury)/ Beaux of London City (Adderbury/ Badby)" (Trad)
  10. "Stourton Wake and Jig (Adderbury)" (Trad)
  11. "Haste to the Wedding (Adderbury) / Bluebells of Scotland (Adderbury) / Shepherd's Away (Adderbury)" (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
  12. "Bumpus O' Stretton (Ilmington)" (Trad)
  13. "Janet Blunt Poem" (song) (words: Janet Blunt/ tune: "Jamaica")
  14. "Morning Star (Bledington)/ Getting Upstairs (Headington)/ Wheatley Processional (Wheatley)" (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
  15. "A Secret" (medley *) (Trad)

(* uncredited medley: Shepherd's Hey/ Bluebells of Scotland/ Brighton Camp/ sound of church bells/ Happy the Man (song))

Personnel

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