Grinning in Your Face (album)
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Grinning In Your Face is a folk album by Martin Simpson
recorded and released in 1983.
Recorded and produced at Ideal Sound Recorders, London by Tony Engle. Originally issued by Topic Records in the UK, catalogue number 12TS430.
It includes a mixture of contemporary and traditional pieces.
with
Martin Simpson
Martin Simpson is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in the British Isles, America and beyond.-Biography:...
recorded and released in 1983.
Recorded and produced at Ideal Sound Recorders, London by Tony Engle. Originally issued by Topic Records in the UK, catalogue number 12TS430.
It includes a mixture of contemporary and traditional pieces.
Track listing
- "It Doesn't Matter AnymoreIt Doesn't Matter Anymore"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" is a pop ballad written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. The song reached #13 as a posthumous hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in early 1959 shortly after Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The single was a two-sided hit, backed...
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) - "Little Birdie" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
- "The First Cut is the Deepest" (Stephens)
- "Roving Gambler" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
- "This War May Last for Years" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
- "Masters of WarMasters of War"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962-63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The song's melody was adapted from the traditional "Nottamun Town"...
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) - "Reuben's Train" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
- "Your Cheatin' HeartYour Cheatin' Heart"Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by the American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams in 1952, but released after his death in 1953.. It is often considered one of his greatest songs, and one of the great songs of country music...
" (Hank Williams) - "Handsome Molly" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
- "Townships" (Simpson)/ "BikoBiko (song)"Biko" is a protest song by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. The song was included on Gabriel's third album, Peter Gabriel . It is about Steve Biko, a noted black South African anti-apartheid activist. Biko had been arrested by the South African police in late August 1977...
" (Peter GabrielPeter GabrielPeter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
) - "Moonshine" (Simpson)
- "Green Linnet" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)/ "Grinning In Your Face" (Son HouseSon HouseEddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music...
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Personnel
- Martin Simpson - vocals, acoustic guitar, lap steel, dobro, banjo
with
- Bob Smith - drums
- Annette Costello - backing vocals