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1 |
The
Snow and the Fire |
2 |
Time
to Talk |
3 |
Port
Ui Mhuirgheasa |
4 |
Tell
Me Once More |
5 |
My
Town |
6 |
Long
Day’s Waiting |
7 |
The
Field Road |
8 |
Dreaming
for the People |
9 |
Turn
Away |
10 |
Hidden
Beauty |
11 |
These
Days |
12 |
Forget
About You |
Dave
Everitt - |
vocals,
acoustic & electric guitars, double bass, zither |
Dan
Britton - |
vocals,
acoustic & electric guitars, double bass, bodhran |
Chris
Conway - |
vocals, acoustic & electric 9string guitars, keyboards,
tin whistle, kalimba, electric mandolin |
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Three
great singer songwriters get together to produce something
special.
Remastered re-release of their stunning debut album. Great
songs, harmonies and playing Like a kind of Celtic tinged
Crosby Stills & Nash.
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The album has a magical innocence that marks it as a classic. All of the elements of their music was layed out here - awesome songs, interplay, harmonies and novel instrumentation marked The Storm Thieves out right away. Many songs on this album continue in their solo and band repetoires.
background
Dan & Dave had been working together in a songs band The Horse Thieves, and then as a duo.
In 1992 with Chris, as a trio they made an instrumental folk-jazz album as Leaf Storm (leafstorm.bandcamp.com/album/dwellers-in-the-mirage).
Chris then joined the songs duo which became The Storm Thieves, and there followed a hugely fruitful period of songwrtiting and performing for all of them.
influences - Alan Stivell, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Van Morrisson, Mike Scott, John Sebastian, Jesse Colin Young
2, 6, 8, 12 by Chris Conway
1, 7, 9, 11 by Dan Britton
4, 10 by Dave Everitt
5 by Dan Britton/Chris Conway
3 trad. Ireland arr. The Storm Thieves
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influences
Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Van Morrisson, Alan Stivell,
Mike Scott, John Sebastian, Jesse Colin Young, Waterboys
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trivia
2,
6, 8, 12 by Chris Conway
1, 7, 9 11 by Dan Britton
4, 10 by Dave Everitt
5 by Britton/Conway
3 trad. Ireland arr The Storm Thieves
Porth
Ui Mhuirghaesa was also released by CC on his Storming album
Forget About You - CC re-recorded a new version on
his Close the Circle CD. The Storm
Thieves version was recorded at 4am after a walk round Burrough
Hill.
Long Day's Waiting was re-recorded on Storming and on Chris & Dan's Just
Be Real CD - Dan's Snow & The Fire classic being
re-recorded on the latter.
Dreaming for the People was about a busker friend
of CCs Toffy McDougall.
Cover art is by Sally Wilson
The recording just took 3 days. Getting the levels right
for live to 2 track DAT took much of the time.
CC's
fave track -Porth
Ui Mhuirghaesa
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