Better Days - Recordings

Retrospective CD available May 2000.

The CD includes all tracks on the 1990 recording "Playing For Time". Six additional tracks have been taken from earlier recordings previously broadcast on radio. The price is £6.00 + p&p.

1. Canadee-i-o
2. Clifton Moor / Julia Delaney / Matt Peoples
3. Sovay (Click here to download MP3 file of this track - approx 3.4mb)
4. Soldiers Joy / Queen of Sheba / Devil Among The Tailors
5. John Barleycorn
6. Gypsy Davey
7. Mrs Grant / This Is My Love / The Merry-go-round
8. Irish Girl
9. High Germany
10. Geordie
11. The Stray Away Child
12. The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter
13. Lovely Joan
14. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
15. Two Brothers
16. Windsor Terrass

All titles trad/arr Better Days, except: 2a Better Days; 4b G F Handel/arr Better Days; 11 M Gorman.

• John Burgess vocals, mandolin
• Garry Blakeley fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals
• Steve Cooke fiddle, viola, keyboard, dulcimer, vocals
• Paul Dengate guitar, vocals
• Kevin Francis bass guitar, tracks 1 - 10
• Paul Warren drums
• George Copeland bass guitar, tracks 12, 13, 14 & 15
• Andrew Griffin bass guitar, track 11 & 16

Special thanks to Chris Wilton (vocals), who replaced John Burgess in 1990, but didn't get to record with the band.

Recording/production: Tracks 1 - 10 recorded at Pilot Sound Studios, engineered by Clive Drew-Clifton (1990) Tracks 11 - 16 recorded by Paul Dengate (1984 - 1989). Produced by Better Days.

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