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It will be a limited edition and costs £10 plus P&P
£811 raised for CLIC Sargent as at 15th April 2007. This will be updated on a regular basis. I would like to thank all the
artists and composers for donating each song FOC and for all the other
people involved in helping the CD to get off the ground.
Various Artists - Yellowbellies 2 (YBR) Review by Dave Kidman Two years ago, the redoubtable Les Worrall (of Faldingworth Live) put together Yellowbellies, a superb charity compilation CD of "songs and tunes from Lincolnshire's finest". Such was its success, both financial and artistic, that he's now masterminded a further collection, this time with all proceeds going to the charity CLIC Sargent which cares for children and young people with cancer and their families. Once again, Les received so many donated tracks from Lincolnshire-based folk artistes that he found himself in the unenviable position of having to turn some down! But quality is again unstintingly high, and once again a good proportion of the tracks are unavailable elsewhere; many of these constitute musical highlights of the collection. Justifiable pride in their county links the contributions of these talented local performers, and many of the songs are on specifically local themes. These couldn't exclude John Blanks' committed performance of the excellent song The Fallen Of Fulstow (co-written with Mark Addison) which won a richly-deserved first prize in last year's BBC Radio Lincolnshire Write A Lincolnshire Folksong competition. Other satisfying and highly enjoyable performances here come from Brian Dawson, Paul Dickinson & Angela King, Dave & Julie Evardson, John Conolly, Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher, Da Capo, Winter/Wilson, Mike Wray and Mark Campbell & Paul Bellamy. There are some jovial instrumental interludes too, courtesy of Pigeon English, Ploughman's Bunch, Byard's Leap, Cara and the Higgledy-Piggledy Band: all good spirited stuff that complements the more reflective nature of most of the songs. The disc is well sequenced, with particularly effective "bookends" in the form of the Old Parrot Band's Skegness celebration The Jolly Fisherman and Shanty Jack's Sailor's Farewell Hymn (transferred from a 1993 cassette). And a very special mention should go to Helian Keys' moving Take My Hand, which acts as the disc's theme song if you like, since it typifies what CLIC is all about; it was written by Helen and Ian themselves and forms a logical emotional and structural centrepiece to the CD. If pushed, I've just one tiny criticism of the disc in that I'd preferred to have heard a true Lincolnshire song from our good friends Stitherum instead of the Jez Lowe cover they've contributed… but with no fewer than 21 tracks, with a total playing time of over 77 minutes, and all for £10 plus P&P, this is still a must-have CD. Anyway, anybody wishing to order the CD can e-mail me at replace (at) with @ for the correct email address above. Your money will go to a good
cause.
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The
CD called Yellowbellies 2 is now available to buy. See list of
songs below and click on each of them to find out more.
