David Harley Words & Music & Pictures &…

Not my most recent album, but you might call this my Greatest Hits album, if I’d ever had any hits. It does include the four tracks released so far as singles, though, and most of the tracks are remixed and/or remastered. In fact, these are all songs that have attracted airplay in the UK and/or US, been requested at live events, or had significant numbers of plays where streamed or available in various video and audio formats. And anyway, I like ’em! Available from Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes etc.  

See also Strictly Off The Record, on Bandcamp, with an extra track!

All lyrics by David A. Harley; all music also by me except for ‘Here Tomorrow’, for which the music was written by Don MacLeod. All tracks recorded at Wheal Alice Music except where otherwise noted. All vocals and instruments (guitars, keyboards, bouzouki, banjo, mountain dulcimer) by David A. Harley unless otherwise noted below.

‘Carpentry’ is essentially the tune I wrote for my setting of ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ by A.E. Housman. The lyric to ‘Thomas Anderson’ was based on a 1970s article by the late Ron Nurse for Shrewsbury Folk Club magazine. ‘Long Stand’ and ‘Hands of the Craftsman’ were written for the 1981 revue ‘Nice…if you can get it’. Tracks 1, 2 and 20 were recorded at Hallmark, W1, 5, 10 and 18 at Centre Sound in Camden Town, all in the early 80s.

1. Heatwave in the City (London 1983) – Piano by James Bolam. No, not that James Bolam.
2. One Step Away (From the Blues). 2^nd acoustic guitar by Don MacLeod, and acoustic 12-string guitar by Bob Theil.
3. Let Me Lie Easy
4. Carpentry II
5. Ten Percent Blues
6. How to say Goodbye
7. Same Old Same Old
8. Thomas Anderson
9. Paper City
10. Long Stand
11. Diane (Going Out)
12. Wrekin (The Marches Line)
13. Song of Chivalry
14. Cornish Ghosts
15. Coasting
16. Two is a Silence
17. Sea Fret
18. Hands of the Craftsman
19. Her Own Way Down
20. Here Tomorrow – Acoustic guitar and piano by Don MacLeod. Percussion by Richard Davy. Additional vocals by Lyn (Anna) Thompson.