Tall Stories For Small Children
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Tall Stories For Small Children is the debut studio album released by Guy Manning
Guy Manning
Guy Manning is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent and his own, Manning.-Biography:...

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Note: The character of Abel Mann was explored in greater detail on the subsequent 2004 Concept Album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

, A Matter Of Life & Death (The Journal Of Abel Mann)
A Matter Of Life & Death (The Journal Of Abel Mann)
A Matter Of Life & Death is the sixth studio album released by Guy Manning.This is a Concept Album which explores the fall and rise of the Abel Mann character first introduced on the 1999 album Tall Stories For Small Children.- Track listing :# The Dream # Nobody's Fool # Omens # The River Of...


Track listing

  1. The Last Psalm (14:07)
  2. The Voyager (05:22)
  3. White Waters (05:46)
  4. The Fall & Rise Of Abel Mann?
    1. Grand Fanfare (02:02)
    2. Waiting On A Ledge (04:42)
    3. Grand Fanfare (Revisited) (00:43)
    4. Post-Mortem
      1. Three Score Years & 10 (02:18)
      2. In My Life (05:06)
  5. Castaways (04:25)
  6. Holy Ireland
    1. The Land (02:40)
    2. A Soldiers Story (03:11)
    3. The Widows Tale (04:42)
    4. Priests Song (04:01)
    5. The Land (Reprise) (02:58)



All words and music written by Guy Manning.

Personnel

  • Guy Manning
    Guy Manning
    Guy Manning is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent and his own, Manning.-Biography:...

    : guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s, Keyboards
    Musical keyboard
    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...

    , drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , Mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

     and vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Andy Tillison
    Andy Tillison
    Andy Tillison is a British keyboardist and singer best known for his work in the progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees and The Tangent.-Biography:...

    : Keyboards
    Musical keyboard
    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...

  • Jonathan Barratt: Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Pav Chana: percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Jon Burr: Harmonica
    Harmonica
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  • Simon Baskind: drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

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