A collection of six traditional and four contemporary folk songs from England, Ireland and Scotland featuring acoustic guitar, vocals, fiddle, accordion, bodhran, mandola,'cello, bass, harmonium and hammered dulcimer.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (45:42) !
Related styles: Folk: British Folk, Folk: Celtic Folk, Type: Acoustic

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TIM READMAN: BIOGRAPHY
Vancouver BCâs Tim Readman is a musician, folksinger, songwriter, producer and music journalist, originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is the former leader of Canadian Celtic/folk favourites Fear of Drinking and has played for years with The Arrogant Worms. He also plays guitar, sings and writes with ace Celtic fiddler Shona Le Mottee. He has produced a number of CDs for other folk acts. He writes for Canadaâs folk roots magazine Penguin Eggs. He was the Artistic Director for the 2008 and 2009 CelticFest Vancouver and is still with them as performer, musical host and MC. He has an extensive repertoire of original songs and can also perform everything from traditional murder ballads to more contemporary material by artists as diverse as The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Steely Dan and Madonna. He can entertain in any setting, from concert hall to campfire and makes people laugh at every show. He has just released a new CD of mainly traditional British and Irish folk songs entitled Out of the Green.

PRESS QUOTES
⢠âThere are a lot of people who play folk music. Tim Readman is folk music ⦠He knows which side he is on and why. He also understands how an artist and their music can bring a room together and make everyone feel welcome.â
Dugg Simpson, Vancouver Folk Music Festival Program Notes, Canada
⢠âReadman sounds a splendid individual ... whoâs worked backwards via Canada to his British roots â first rate!â
Folk Roots Magazine, England
⢠âHis strong personal voice, with commitments to themes of importance, speaks in the same vein as James Keelaghan and David Francey, while Timâs sense of humour stands comparison with that of The Arrogant Worms.â
Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, Canada
⢠âA guitarist, singer and songwriter with a large repertoire of varied material and a well-honed sense of humour.â
Celtic Connection, Canada
⢠âTim Readman has consistently shown himself to be one of the most versatile and innovative musicians on the Canadian and international folk stages, not to mention as a performer with a riotous sense of humour.â
Rogue Folk Review, Canada

TITLE: Out of the Green â Tim Readman and Jennie Bice
RELEASE DATE: 10/10/11 LABEL: Big City CATALOGUE #: BC021
DISTRIBUTION: CD Baby
FEATURING: Tim Readman - acoustic guitar and vocals
Jennie Bice - fiddle and vocals
Ed Weaver - mandola
Allan Dionne â accordion and bodhran
Bill Buckingham - 'cello, bass, harmonium, percussion and hammered dulcimer
TITLE: Out of the Green â Tim Readman and Jennie Bice
A decade after âInto the Redâ, Tim Readmanâs last release under his own name, comes this collection of six traditional and four contemporary folk songs from England, Ireland and Scotland. âOut of the Green came out of the blue really. After ten years of thinking about songs to record, it took ten minutes to make up my mind, ten days to record it all and ten weeks to get the record out!â It all started at a gig with Jennie Bice. âShe threw a set list down and I said âYes that looks good-where did it come from?â She said âI have had it for fourteen years since our first gig togetherâ. Bloody hell I thought - it is time we recorded this stuff! I had been trying in my head to mix my own songs with folk material and also include some pop and rock songs I like to play in a folk style and it just wasnât working. I still have a load of originals and other songs ready to record but thatâll all have to wait until another time. In the meantime I wanted Out of the Green to hold together as a solid body of work.â We hope you agree that it has been worth the wait.
THE SONGS:
1. Barleycorn (Trad. Arr. Readman) 4:08
A rousing drinking song in slip-jig time. Everyone has heard the English version covered most notably by Traffic in the 1970âs. This is the Irish version from County Cork. The barley plant is anthropomorphized and his ignoble journey from seed in the ground to deposit in the urinal is both celebrated and lamented.
2. A Pair of Brown Eyes (Shane McGowan) 5:39
A waltz time sway-along classic. The Pogue Chieftain Shane McGowan is a poet and a genius. This is his beautiful and surreal London Irish sing-a-long drinking song.
3. Ballad of Cursed Anna (Jonathan Kelly) 4:55
A driving minor-key folk-rock opus, which tells a familiar tale in the canon of British and Irish folksong of transmogrification between old hag and young beauty. It is given another spooky lease of life by Mr. Kellyâs pen and Mr. Readmanâs arrangment.
4. Winter Song (Alan Hull) 5:43
A slow and thoughtful ballad whose chilly seasonal theme should resonate with Canadians. The late, lamented and quite brilliant Alan Hull, socialist, Geordie, and rogue is criminally overlooked outside his native Northumbria. His songs, like the mist on the river, will be with us forever.
5. Limbo (Trad. Arr. Readman) 5:02
A mid tempo wickedly amusing folk ballad, featuring a dilletante who âstruts like a crow in the gutterâ, spends his fortune on women and drinking and then tricks his gullible uncle into bailing him out of debtorâs prison. Upon his release, completely remorseless, he goes straight back to the house of ill-repute to continue his philandering and his journey to damnation.
6. The Barley and the Rye (Trad. Arr. Readman) 3:01
A sprightly waltz time rendition of a familiar folk tale, in which a young woman, married to an old and daft husband, has a lusty affair with a young chap, right under her spouseâs nose ... and then persuades him to give her lover a job on his farm.
7. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again? (Richard Thompson) 3:45
A sad, slow ballad set in the troubled streets of Belfast. It's about the confusion in a soldierâs mind between the terrible experiences of war, and the real innocent simplicity he sees in a young girl.
8. Who Put the Blood (Edward) (Trad. Arr. Readman) 5:31
A brooding and intense murder ballad in which a mother questions her son about his whereabouts and dealings and, as mothers often do, gets to the bottom of things. In doing so she reveals the horrible truth concerning his actions.
9. The Sheep Stealer (Trad. Arr. Readman) 4:34
A sturdy waltz time ballad, concerning âa brisk lad whose fortune is badâ. Since desperate times call for desperate measures, he indulges in a little livestock rustling to feed his hungry family. He pins his hopes on his similarity in looks to his land owning brother, which he prays will help him evade the lawâs attention.
10. The Cobbler and the Butcher (Trad. Arr. Readman) 4:55
Can there be a jauntier and more saucy song in English folk music? A cheeky little ditty in which an amorous cobbler pushes his luck with the local butcherâs wife and gets his come-uppance at the hands her husband. Itâs like a French bedroom farce set to music.