Dancing Days (album)
Dancing Days is an album by Chris Leslie, released in 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
- "Flowers of Edinburgh/ Old Tom of Oxford"
- "Laudnum Bunches / Orange In Bloom / Banks of the Dee "
- "Bower Processional "
- "Princess Royal / Speed The Plough "
- "Old Marlborough "
- "The Dancer "
- "Jockey to the Fair / Double Jig "
- "Lumps of Plum Pudding / Bean Setting / Bobbing a Joe "
- "Sweet Jenny Jones / Brighton Camp / Beaux of London City "
- "Stourton Wake and Jig "
- "Haste to the Wedding / Bluebells of Scotland / Shepherd's Away "
- "Bumpus O' Stretton "
- "Janet Blunt Poem"
- "Morning Star / Getting Upstairs / Wheatley Processional "
- "A Secret"
Personnel
- Chris Leslie - violins, percussion, bouzouki, mandolin, native American flute, kalimba, tingshaws, Tibetan singing bowls
- Simon Nicol - acoustic guitar
- Dave Pegg - bass
- Gerry Conway - percussion, congas
- Mat Green - violin
- Ric Sanders - violin
- Mikey Radford - dance
- Ashley Hutchings - bass