Festival and Anthology recordings
Shining Bright: Songs of Mike & Lal Waterson
2002 — Topic TSCD519 CD
Track List:
Bright Phoebus - John Pashley's Phoenix New Orleans Parade Band
Evona Darling - Linda & Teddy Thompson
Scarecrow - Dick Gaughan
Never the Same - Martin Carthy
Song for Thirza - Norma Waterson
Piper's Path - Christy Moore
Child Among the Weeds - Eliza Carthy
Shine - Helen Watson
Danny Rose - Billy Bragg
Winifer Odd - Maddy Prior
Marvellous Companion - Christine Collister & Oliver Knight
One of Those Days - Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
Fine Horseman - Dayteller
Red Wine Promises - Richard Thompson
Bright Phoebus - Blue Murder
Credits
A tribute to Lal & Mike Waterson's seminal album Bright Phoebus.
Produced by David Suff for Deep Sea
Mastered by Dennis Blackham at Country Masters
Design and illustration by John Haxby
Notes
"In 1972 Mike & Lal Waterson released an extraordinary album of their original songs — Bright Phoebus — on Bill Leader's Trailer label. This magical collection of very English songwriting as long been acknowledged a classic and one of the finest achievements of the British folk revival. Inexplicably Bright Phoebus was out of print for many years."
"Shining Bright was conceived to pay tribute to Mike & Lal's remarkable songs, and it draws upon the songs recorded for Bright Phoebus and on a further half dozen songs written at the same time but not previously recorded. Shining Bright has fifteen new recordings by some of the folk world's finest performers. The songwriting of Mike and Lal is held in such high esteem that soon we had a queue of performers eager to contribute to this collection."
(Sleeve notes by David Suff) — From Reinhard Zierke's Mainly Norfolk site.