First track on the Rosewood EP.
The Bold Princess Royal.
Phil Lyons. Simon Haines and Val Woollard.


The Bold Princess Royal

The mother of my children died on New Year's Day 2016. She wrote this song many years earlier and she sang it when we recorded it together...it seems appropriate now for me to sing it. For Philippa.

Never Greet The Day.WAV

The Ballad of Helen Titchener by Paul Slade on #TheArchers...he asked if there was anybody who might stick a tune on it.....so here goes for what it's worth!!!!

The Ballad of Helen Titchener

Started this yesterday. My version of Sally Gardens on my Lowden O25C. 

Sally Gardens.MP3

Traditional English song , sometimes called "The Female Highwayman" played on my Fylde bouzouki.

Shilo Shilo

My arrangement of a tune by Canadian, Elizabeth Alexander. I learnt it in a guitar workshop led by Ed Boyd at last summer's Burwell  Folk Bash. My thanks to him for giving me a tune for life! Played on my Lowden O25c.

Dregs Of Berge.MP3

This is my attempt at a beautiful tune ,written by Juha Yli -Kotila and adapted for guitar by the wonderful Gilles le Bigot. Played on my Bartram guitar. the composer was 16 when he wrote this...wow!

Valse finlandaise

A Breton dance tune I made up, inspired by the rugged and beautiful far western coast of Brittany . Played on my Bartram guitar. 

Hanter Dro RAZ

A song from the Loire area that I'm very fond of. I got it from La Chavanee ...they say it was a text written by Jerome Bugeaud (a 19th c french song collector) without a melody. Strangely, I've recently come across a Ronde de Gueronde from Brittany on a very similar theme.....
Val haines completes this on flute.
Taken from Bof!'s third album. "Le Gai Matelot"

L'Amant de Nantes

01 MARIE SITS

One of my favourite songs by the wonderful songwriter and singer,. Pete Morton. The last track on my album, "Time and Tide".

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