Free Reed Records have finally re-issued their 1976 LP of Cotswold Morris Dance Music, played by an acoustic band consisting of Fi Fraser, Sue Harris, Martin Carthy, Martin Brinsford, and JK. It was available as a CD on the Topic label for a few years, but has been out of print for some time now.
As well as the original fifteen tracks, there are two bonus items. One is my contribution to the 1999 EFDSS CD "Absolutely Classic - The Music of William Kimber" (EFDSS CD 03). This is the Headington Quarry tune "Laudnum Bunches" treated as a total squeezebox fest, starting on the solo Anglo concertina and ending piled up with just about everything I play.
The other bonus is a DVD version of the film made by Jon Cousins about the cover photo of The Gloucestershire Old Spot Morris Dancers, with a bit about their history and what everyone's done since, and a re-staging of exactly the same photo, in exactly the same place, with most of the same people, many years later.
Plain Capers will probably not appear on the merchandising pages of this website for a little while, but it is fully available NOW for the fabulous bargain price of £8.00 plus £1.00 p & p.
FREE REED RECORDS - FRRR 01.
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