Simon Fowler's Merrymouth


Simon Fowler's Merrymouth is the debut solo album by Simon Fowler it contains six original Fowler compositions, one of those being an OCS re-working. Released on 26 March 2012, it features Fowler, Dan Sealey, Mike McNamara, John McCusker and Andy Cutting.
All songs are written by Simon Fowler, unless otherwise stated. The album contains a Bert Jansch song, "Courting Blues", and the lyrics of a W. B. Yeats poem "The Stolen Child", put to a melody written by Fowler and music by Merrymouth.
Produced by Dan Sealey and Mike McNamara.
Recorded at Gospel Oak Studio, Warwickshire, England by Barry 'Baz' Bayliss. Engineered by Bayliss and Alfie Manders

Track listing

All tracks composed by Simon Fowler; except where indicated
  1. "Holy Day"
  2. "The Trees They Grow So High"
  3. "Sweetest Words"
  4. "Last Train But One"
  5. "Courting Blues"
  6. "Midst of Summertime"
  7. "Prometheus"
  8. "The Stolen Child"
  9. "The Shadow Knows"
  10. "Mr Marshall"
  11. "Over My Head"
  12. "The First Rites of Spring"