Spring 2001
This album is a digital remastering of the cassette recorded at OMB Studios, Port Orchard, Washington, D.C. USA in 1989. In addition there are two tracks which were recorded in 2000 whilst Louis was visiting the UK.
TRACK
LISTING
1.One night as I lay
on my bed - 2.One April Morning - 3.Friendless Mary
4. The Banks of Sweet Dundee 5.Bay
of Fundy - 6.A Grand Conversation on Napoleon
7.The Last Leviathan - 8.Barbara Allan - 9.Patrick
Spens - 10.Bogie's Bonny Belle
11.The Jute Mill Song - 12.The Cock - 13.Bruton Town - 14.
The Shellback's Song
15 The Rose in June
Track playing is a small sample from the title track "A Rose in June"
"A
Bonny Bunch"
KnockOut! KO-02
1993
Traditional Songs
from England, Scotland & Ireland
Titles: Lovely Joan / The Wind That Shakes The Barley / The Unquiet Grave / The Recruited Collier / Rap Her To Bank / The Painful Plough / The Verdant Braes Of Skrene / Na' Bhouchaill N'Gruage Bhui / The Gallawa' Hills / The Fireship / The Croppy Boy / The Lags Song / Van Dieman's Land / The Kielder Hunt/ General Wolfe / The Death Of Nelson / The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
Released in January
1995, this is a beautiful album of unaccompanied songs
and ballads recounting the tragedies and triumphs of the human experience.
The themes move through love, betrayal, isolation, war, justice served
and the inspiration of heroes.
Sailors, Ships and Chanteys Vol. 2. KnockOut! KO-04
1997
Titles: Dance t' th' Daddy / The Herring Gutter's Song / The Dark-Eyed Sailor / Do Me Amma / Doodle Let Me Go / The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime / The Keel Row / The "Diamond" / Greenland Bound / The Wreck of the Ellen Munn / Three Score and Ten / The Black Ball Line / Brave Admiral Bennow / The Bold "Princess Royal" / Paul Jones / We Have Fed Our Seas / Goodbye, Fare Thee Well / Leave Her, Johnny
The second in a series depicting the life of the deep-water sailor as seen through songs, stories, and shanties. Its title is in the tradition of the chapbooks and songsters that were popular during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Any other questions, please write to:
ljkillen@blueyonder.co.uk