Oakenwood CD 3 (the rural England themed one)

OAKENWOOD  TCR 003   

Songs from the shire...Wend a merry way along an ancient country pathway.  Rural English life, real or idealised; shire horses, rustling field mice and mysterious hares,  fires in great hearths, autumn evenings. 

 14 tracks of original songs and music with vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, flute, keyboards, mandolin and occasional eccentric percussion.

 
The booklet consists of 12 pages of handwritten lyrics and pen and ink drawings made with great care, and is printed on very nice, tinted, acid-free cardstock paper

Available 18 September 2012  *limited edition

 

 

OAKENWOOD track listing:                                                          

1. On Velvet Brown Horses

2. Spinney *

3. Town and Country

4. Bramble *

5. Modern Life

6. In The Old Hall

7. Oakenwood *

8. Mr. Magic Painter

9. The Hare

10. March Hare *

11. Autumn Frost

12. Ancient Woodland *

13. Fireside

14. Night Creatures  

*instrumental

 

Oakenwood is an album long in the making, as the lyrics are among the earliest songs I've written.  It's satisfying to finally have a proper recording of them, as they had been languishing away in a dark folder and tape boxes longing to come out into the light of day and be shared, even in this rustic and less than perfect final cd-r.   It is also interspersed with some earlier little instrumentals.

Oakenwood is rather an indulgence into a long obsession with the English countryside.  Songs from the Shire, a pleasant jaunt for an English autumn; wending our way over ancient pathways and through the woods...