Ship to Shore is the first album by Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter.Jones was born in Dudley, England, where he did part time work at Dudley Zoo from the age of 12...

, guitarist, singer and songwriter. The guitar style and sound, involving use of harmonics and extensive electronic treatments, is already fully formed. The album was recorded in March 1976 in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 at Nest Studios, produced by Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter.Jones was born in Dudley, England, where he did part time work at Dudley Zoo from the age of 12...

 and engineered by Jake Commander and Kim Holmes. It features contributions by then-members of Decameron

Decameron (band)

Decameron were a British folk-rock band.Initially formed in 1968 in Cheltenham by Johnny Coppin and Dave Bell, the band were augmented in 1971 by the addition of Al Fenn and Geoff March...

, Madrigal and Steve Ashley's band.

The album was reissued on CD in 2002 on Kissing Spell (KSCD 942), with additional tracks in the form of early recordings of songs intended for the LP but for which the vinyl LP format did not allow space.

Jones' Dudley

Dudley

Dudley is a large town in the West Midlands county of England. At the 2001 census , the Dudley Urban Sub Area had a population of 194,919, making it the 26th largest settlement in England, the second largest town in the United Kingdom behind Reading, and the largest settlement in the UK without...

 roots are evinced by an LP sleeve credit to "Jack and Bob at Modern Music", the proprietors of a now defunct music shop in Castle Hill well known to all Midland musicians of the time.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter.Jones was born in Dudley, England, where he did part time work at Dudley Zoo from the age of 12...

.

1. A Singularly Fine Day 5:20
2. Take Me Home 6:22
3. The Man And The Deer 5:36
4. Follow Every Sunset 3:45
5. How High The Moon 3:30
6. Reality 3:43
7. Port Quin Song (The Lady On The Beach) 3:41
8. Ship To Shore 12:10

Additional tracks on the CD reissue:

1. All Brave Men
2. The Hunter and the Lady
3. Hunter's Tale
4. Ships' Tales
5. Neap Tide
6. High Tide
7. Frozen Waves

Personnel

• Nigel Mazlyn Jones
  Nigel Mazlyn Jones
  Nigel Mazlyn Jones is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter.Jones was born in Dudley, England, where he did part time work at Dudley Zoo from the age of 12...
  
   - guitars, bass, waves, vocals
• Dik Cadbury
  Dik Cadbury
  Dik Cadbury is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, principally known as a bass guitarist and as former member of Decameron and the backing band of former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.-Career:...
  
   - basses, vocals
• Johnny Coppin
  Johnny Coppin
  Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...
  
  - guitar, vocals
• Alleyn Menzies - drums
• Jerry Riley - guitar
• Rob Lloyd - guitar, mandolin
• Martin Mitchell - violin

Additional personnel listed on CD reissue:

• Dave Titley - acoustic 6 string guitar, pottery drum
• Graham Horncy - bass
• Alan Appleby - bass