ARTIST: Dick Gaughan
TITLE: Redwood Cathedral
LABEL: Greentrax Recordings
GENRE: Folk
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 142 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 60:59
RELEASE DATE: 1998-00-00
RIP DATE: 2010-12-18
Track List
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1. Muir & The Master Builder 6:53
2. Gone, Gonna Rise Again 3:43
3. Reconciliation 5:27
4. Why Old Men Cry 5:57
5. Thomas Muir Of Huntershill 4:06
6. October Song 5:16
7. Ewen & The Gold 6:37
8. Let It Be Me 3:10
9. All The King's Horses 4:00
10. Pancho & Lefty 5:57
11. Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything 3:56
There Is A Season)
12. Fine Horseman 5:57
Release Notes:
"More than anything else, I regard myself as a song interpreter. This is a much
maligned craft these days and is often written off by use of the crass and
meaningless term "covers", a term invented by the music industry to create, for
purely commercial reasons, an artificial hierarchical distinction between those
who write songs and those who don't.
The crafts of singer and songwriter are as different as those of actor and
playwright. Some are skilled at both - but they are few and far between.
Increasingly, pressure has been applied by the recording industry to singers
that they will only be recorded if they write their own songs; this maximises
profits for the record companies by ensuring they collect the publishing
royalties and own the song copyrights.
The end result of this is that many fine singers end up making records way below
their capabilities, padded out with trivial, inconsequential songs about what
they had for breakfast and whether or not the sun was shining while they ate it.
Imagine this -
If all actors only acted in plays they had written themselves, theatre would die
within a few years.
If all orchestral musicians only played symphonies they had composed themselves,
there would be no orchestras.
If all car drivers only drove cars they had built themselves, there would be
even greater carnage on the roads.
Add your own analogies.
And if all singers only sing songs they write themselves then all songs will die
with their authors and in 100 years time there will be no folksongs.
Fact - there are many fine singers who can't write songs and many fine
songwriters who can't sing.
Give the work of the fine songwriters who can't sing to the fine singers who
can't write and there will be a lot more performances worth listening to.
Although this album does contain two of my own songs, it is primarily a homage
by a song interpreter to the craft of the songwriter."
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