Dancing Days is an album by Chris Leslie, released in 2004.

Compared to Chris Leslie's earlier album The Flow

The Flow

The Flow is an album by Chris Leslie released in 1997This album is mostly instrumental. Although Chris Leslie is best known for his fiddle playing in Fairport Convention, these cuts sound nothing like Fairport. Some of it sounds like music of Thailand or Tibet, and other parts sound jazzy or new...

, this is much more of a recognisable instrumental folk-rock effort. Occasionally Chris drifts off into a reverie that sounds like a monastery in Tibet, but this is less obvious than before. He gives a sprightly performance of many morris dance tunes, then adds the oriental effects as a variation at the end of some tracks, punctuated by finger cymbals.

Track listing

1. "Flowers of Edinburgh/ Old Tom of Oxford" (Trad)
2. "Laudnum Bunches (Headington)/ Orange In Bloom (Sherbourne)/ Banks of the Dee (Longborough)" (Trad / Trad/ Trad)
3. "Bower Processional (Lichfield)" (Traditional)
4. "Princess Royal (Adderbury)/ Speed The Plough (Bampton)" (Trad)
5. "Old Marlborough (Fieldtown)" (Traditional)
6. "The Dancer (song)" (Chris Leslie)
7. "Jockey to the Fair (Adderbury)/ Double Jig (Bampton)" (Trad/ Trad)
8. "Lumps of Plum Pudding (Bledington)/ Bean Setting (Headington)/ Bobbing a Joe (Wheatley)" (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
9. "Sweet Jenny Jones (Adderbury) / Brighton Camp (Adderbury)/ Beaux of London City (Adderbury/ Badby)" (Trad)
10. "Stourton Wake and Jig (Adderbury)" (Trad)
11. "Haste to the Wedding (Adderbury) / Bluebells of Scotland (Adderbury) / Shepherd's Away (Adderbury)" (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
12. "Bumpus O' Stretton (Ilmington)" (Trad)
13. "Janet Blunt Poem" (song) (words: Janet Blunt/ tune: "Jamaica")
14. "Morning Star (Bledington)/ Getting Upstairs (Headington)/ Wheatley Processional (Wheatley)" (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
15. "A Secret" (medley *) (Trad)

(* uncredited medley: Shepherd's Hey/ Bluebells of Scotland/ Brighton Camp/ sound of church bells/ Happy the Man (song))

Personnel

• Chris Leslie - violins, percussion, bouzouki, mandolin, native American flute, kalimba, tingshaws, Tibetan singing bowls
• Simon Nicol
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   - acoustic guitar
• Dave Pegg
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   - bass
• Gerry Conway
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   - percussion, congas
• Mat Green - violin
• Ric Sanders
  Ric Sanders
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   - violin
• Mikey Radford - dance
• Ashley Hutchings
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  - bass