Release Date: Sep 1, 2017
Discs: 2
Remarkable new album from world acclaimed, multi-Folk Award winning guitarist/singer-songwriter, Martin Simpson. Featuring special guests, Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr, John Smith, Ben Nicholls, Toby Kearney
Produced and engineered by Andy Bell, ‘Trails & Tribulations’ features some of Martin’s most inventive playing yet, showcasing his virtuosity on a variety of instruments including acoustic guitars, resonator guitars, Weissenbown lap steel guitar, electric guitars, 5 string banjo, ukulele – and voice.
Guest musicians on the new album are: Ben Nicholls (string bass and electric bass guitars), Toby Kearney (drums and percussion), Nancy Kerr (fiddle and viola), Andy Cutting (diatonic accordion and melodeon), John Smith (electric guitar and backing vocals), Helen Bell (strings), Amy Newhouse-Smith (backing vocals) and, for the first time on record, his daughter Molly Simpson on vocals.
Side 1
1. Blues Run The Game
2. Bones and Feathers
3. Thomas Crew
Side 2
4. East Kentucky
5. Katherine Of Aragon Interlude
6. Katherine Of Aragon
7. Maps
Side 3
8. St James Solo
9. Jaspers
10. Ridgeway
Side 4
11 Rufford Park
12. Reynadine Interlude
13. Reynadine