> Folk Music > Records > Town Fools: Tales of Work, Women & Whiskey
Town Fools: Tales of Work, Women & Whiskey
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Tales of Work, Women & Whiskey Playbones Records PBCD 23 (CD, Germany, 1999) |
Recorded and mixed by folke Jensen at Ultraschall Studios;
Mastered by Peter Herenberg at .ham. Audio Mastering GmbH;
Band photo by Thomas Kock;
Layout and lithos by Creative Concept, Soltau
Musicians
Helge Becker: lead vocals;
Ulrike Buth: violin, mandolin;
Kristin Ludewig: accordion;
Momo Gruhlke: bass, backing vocals, whistling, mandolin;
Sven Nieder: drums, percussion, backing vocals;
Ole Kock: guitar, lead vocals, percussion, beer can
with
Bobby Sundmacher: 5-string banjo, backing vocals;
Ronnie Bromhead: tin whistles, low whistle, backing vocals;
Sibylle Krebs: congas, bongos;
Hiolger Krause, Micke Jochmann: backing vocals;
The Kitchen Singers: Town Fools, Aidan O’Hanlan, and Jacquie, Ronnie Bromhead,
Bobby Sundmacher, Mike Jochmann, Catherine Pfeifer, Anja Tölle, Markus Schladt,
Berit Jaschke, Holger Krause
Tracks
- The Rising of the Moon (Roud 9634) (2.38)
- Night Visit (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793) (2.57)
- The Passenger (5.51)
- I’ll Tell Me Ma (Roud 2649; Henry H48e) / Ballydesmond No. 1 (3.25)
- The Mist on the Moor / The Recruiting Sergeant (Roud V15395) (4.31)
- The Tinker’s Son (3.16)
- Take Me up to Monto / Bill Hart’s (2.24)
- Hot Asphalt (Roud 2134) (3.45)
- Poor Paddy (Roud 208) / The Rising of the North (5.37)
- Dol-li-a (Roud 2611) (3.26)
- These Rocks and Hills (2.32)
- The Parting Glass (Roud 3004; G/D 8:1531; Henry H769) (17.05)
All tracks trad. arr. Ole Kock, Momo Gruhlke except
Track 3 Iggy Pop, Ricky Gardiner;
Tracks 5a, 11 Ole Kock;
Track 5b Seamus O’Farrell;
Track 6 Momo Gruhlke, Ole Kock;
Track 9b Gary Miller
> Folk Music > Records > Town Fools: A Night on the Town
Town Fools: A Night on the Town
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A Night on the Town Town Fools 4711-08/15 (CD, Germany, 2001) |
Produced by Ole Kock;
Recorded with a digital 8 track;
Mastered by Peter Herenberg at .ham. Audio Mastering GmbH;
Photography by Tim Fulda;
Cover concept and design by Ole Kock
Musicians
Helge Becker: lead vocals;
Ulrike Buth: violin, backing vocals;
Kristin Ludewig: accordion;
Hinnerk Onken: bass, backing vocals;
Sven Nieder: drums, percussion, backing vocals;
Ole Kock: guitars, vocals, melidodica, harmonica, glockenspiel, farfisa,
percussion, samples
Tracks
- Captain Booze (2.30)
- This Town (2.48)
- Milltown (3.46)
- Under a Drunken Moon (2.44)
- November (3.28)
- Gerdundula (2.56)
- She Moved Through the Fair (Roud 861; Henry H141) (6.08)
- My Friend, the Sewer Rat (2.30)
- Sycamore Leaves (2.55)
- Mean Old World (4.24)
- Meeting Past Midnight (5.28)
- The Wake (13.41)
All tracks by Ole Kock except
Track 6 Manston and James (Francis Rossi, Bob Young);
Track 7 trad;