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Smithy

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Dedication 04:17
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Winter Rain 06:29
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Riding Down From Bangor 04:43
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Fire 03:04
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Cock Robin 01:47
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Funiculi, Funicula 05:04
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Summer - the birds of the air ... 09:18
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Old Cabin Home 02:52
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Solo Improvisations recorded in Luke Lister's Smithy, Stockport, on the 3rd November 2003. My birth town. My 43rd birthday.

Dedicated to David Bisset-Smith 1923 - 1994

Some of the improvisations are based on songs from 'The Scottish Student's Songbook' which was given to my father when he started at St Andrew's University. We sang heartily from this book throughout my childhood.

Thanks : Chris Cherry and Katie Myers, and to my cousins Martin Lister and Karen Gilston and their respective partners Jane and Phil.

Cover photograph of the Smithy under the Stockport Viaduct: Anon. 1905
Back cover photograph: Phil Gilston
Inside photograph: Self-portrait 'headless'

'Couching in a niche where silent reflection and the exposition of himself meet, John paints splashing small drops of fretboard knowledge that leave a door slightly open, like he wanted us to peek into his own private moments without entering or disturbing his flux of thought.' Massimo Richi. Touching Extremes. April 2004

Originally released January 2004 as 213CD017

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released June 10, 2022

'Midway upon the road of our life
I found myself within a dark wood,
for the right way had been missed.'
Dante Inferno canto 1

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