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Red Sky Records        

The Shakespeare Songs The Gloucestershire Collection (1994)
(Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill and English Morning albums)
Red Sky RSKCD015/107





“A most beautiful and moving record”
- English Dance and Song
“Warmly recommended” Folk Roots

Songs of Gloucestershire and beyond - comprises the Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill album plus most of the English Morning album. A collection of poems set to music that include works by Ivor Gurney, F W Harvey, Laurie Lee, Frank Mansell, Leonard Clark, John Masefield, John Drinkwater, and Eva Dobell.

Musicians include Phil Beer, Trevor Foster, Matt Clifford, Paul Metsers, Bill Zorn, Geoff March and Steve Dolan.

Engineered by Mick Dolan. Produced by John Acock and Johnny Coppin.

1. In Flanders (4.16)
2. A Song of Gloucestershire (3.19)
3. Piper's Wood (2.51)
4. Fishermen of Newnham (3.32)
5. Cotswold Love (2.38)
6. Briar Roses (3.10)
7. Legacy (2.26)
8. Warning (2.29)
9. The High-Road (3.55)
10. Field of Autumn (3.19)
11. Cotswold Lad (2.33)
12. Song of Minsterworth Perry (0.34)
13. Have Wandered (3.10)
14. The Cotswold Farmers (4.03)
15. This Night The Stars (3.05)
16. English Morning (3.46)
17. Everlasting Mercy (2.46)
18. Dover's Hill (2.29)
19. The Hill (3.43)
20. Tom Long's Post (2.51)
21. The High Hills (2.57)
22. The Holy Brook (3.09)
23. East Wind (3.24)
24. Winter (2.50)
25. Cotswold Tiles (1.19)
26. The Roads Go Down (3.20)

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