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GUSTO

by RORY MCLEOD

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released May 1, 2019

1. The Quickest Way (To Feel Rich). 6:26
Rory: All vocals, harmonica, Bass harmonica, trombone, guitar, tap shoes, high hat. Electric Guitar
Richard Hughes: Tuba

2. No Use For A Gun 5:27
Rory: All vocals, harmonica, Bass harmonica, trombone, guitar, Slide Guitar, tap shoes, percussion

3. Galloway Girl 3:41
Rory: Vocals Harmonica, Guitar
Richard Hughes: Tuba

4. A Foreigner Forever 5:34
(The first version of Foreigner Forever appeared on Rory’s Lullabies For Big Babies 1997)
Performed by Rory McLeod And The Familiar Strangers:
Bob Morgan: Saxophone,
Diego Laverde Rojas: Harp De Colombia,
Richard Sadler: Double Bass,
Rory: vocals, harmonica, guitar, tap shoes.

5. The Wrong Side Of The Wall 3:08
Rory: Vocals Harmonica, Guitar
Richard Hughes: Tuba

6. *Lets Get Together One More Time 2:02
*(Don Chapel)
Rory: Vocals Guitar

7. Allow Me One More Chance 9:39
Rory McLeod *After Henry Thomas and Bob Dylan.
Rory: Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, Bass Harmonica Tap shoes.

8. Disturbing The Comfortable -
(and Comforting The Disturbed) 1:19
(Instrumental)
Rory: Harmonica, Mandolin, Guitar, Tap shoes, Trombone, Pots and pans, Spoons.

9. *Berry Fields o' Blair. 2:49
*(Trad Belle Stewart)
Rory: Vocals

10. Crailling Wassail 7:38
(An Apple Tree Blessing for Crailing Community Orchard)
Rory: all Vocals, harmonicas, Bass Harmonica, Drums, Guitar, Bells, Pots and pans, thrumming-knife-blade.

11. Tenant Farmer’s Blues 5:03
Recorded at Cold Storage Brixton 1986
Rory Guitar, Vocals, Bass Harmonica, Djembe, shaker. Paul Rodden 5 string Banjo, Nettie Van Draager Fiddle, Recording Engineer Charlie Llewellyn. Produced by Geoff Heslop and Rory.

Dave ‘Dottle’ Little: Recording and Mixing Engineer of all songs at Sound Station, Galashiels.
Mathias Weston: Recording Engineer of guitar and vocals 'The Quickest Way'
Tuba recorded by Richard Hughes.
'A Foreigner Forever' Recorded by Richard Sadler
Tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Recorded by Rory.
Berryfields of Blair was recorded in 1990
All Mixes by Dottle and Rory

Cover Photos by Rory McLeod
Album cover Art Engineered by Chris Musto.
Produced by Rory

File under
'Country and Eastern'
'Traditional Avant Garde'
'World and Local Roots Music'
'Soul Music'
'Driving Music'
"Music to wash Dishes to"
To Be Found in the 'Difficult Listening' section of all good Record Shops

10 Other Rory Albums available on Talkative Music ‪talkativemusic@dial.pipex.com‬
on CD or to download at:
‪www.rorymcleod.com‬
Angry Love, Kicking The Sawdust(X2),
Footsteps and Heartbeats, Travelling Home, Lullabies for Big Babies, Mouth To Mouth(X2), Brave Faces, Songs For Big Little People, Swings And Roundabouts, The Glee and The Spark.

See website for All Rory's Live Tour dates and to Join his Mailing List

*Rory happily uses Hohner Marine Band 'Crossover' Harmonicas.

Please don't copy this CD, please help us independent musicians to finance our next recording. If you can't afford to buy this CD, order it from your local lending library, so that everyone can enjoy the benefits.
2019 © ℗ Talkative Music

‘The Berry Fields o’ Blair’
I‘d like to credit the late Danny Kyle for giving me a ride to Shetland in the mid 1980’s and stopping off for a couple of days in Blairgowrie, Perthshire to celebrate Scottish-traveller Belle Stewart’s birthday, where I first heard her sing this song.

‘Galloway Girl’ and ‘Wrong Side Of The Wall’ were written for ‘All along the wall’ a project about Hadrian’s Wall also
inspired by two traditional tunes from Cumbria shared with me by Greg Stephens and Kate Barfield of 'The Boat Band.’

‘Allow me one more Chance’
To celebrate Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, BBC radio commissioned various singers to cover and record the Freewheelin’ album.
This is the song that fell to me. I returned to the original song by Henry Thomas, the Texan blues songster, which inspired Bob Dylan’s version. I rewrote the words and tune. I included two lines from Dylan’s version...some of Henry Thomas’s original melody and verse and added new melodic parts. I believe if Dylan himself had re-recorded the song, it would not have been the same as his early 1960's version.

When singing around a campfire a cowgirl once advised me:
‘Don't make a long story short just so you can tell another one.’

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Rory McLeod Scotland, UK

Rhythmic storyteller, multi-instrumentalist,
…telling unpalatable truths about broken hearts…social injustice…in songs, that are percussive, bold, lyrical, deeply personal …and have an unexpected edge to them, accompanied by spoons, harmonica, guitar, trombone and-tap-dancing shoes
An ex-circus clown+fire eater.
is a one-man-soul-band, and poet.
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