Jukebox Love Songs, Leaving Blues, Border Crossings & Lovers’ Laments
by The Phil Langran Band
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Juke Box Love Song
02:46
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Lament Over Love
03:57
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Homesick Poor Boy Blues
04:43
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Leaving This Town
04:03
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Mother To Son
04:10
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Hard Daddy
03:26
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End Of The Street
03:44
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Never Been To Harlem
04:19
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Pierrot
03:47
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Harlem Night Song
03:32
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Love
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about
Folkwit records are proud to release the latest album by The Phil Langran Band – a wonderfully crafted album with songs based on the work of American poet Langston Hughes alongside composition by Phil Langran himself.
“When I first encountered the work of the great American poet Langston Hughes, I heard the voices of the last long century and more. I heard solitary cries and massed choruses, public outbursts and whispered hopes. Hughes’ lyrical, angry, tender but always impassioned words re-drew the map of poetry for me. But they also re-drew the musical map, singing out everything from field hollers to old world ballads, love songs and leaving blues. I thought of Louis Armstrong recording with Jimmie Rodgers. I thought of Romeo, Juliet, Porgy, Bess, Bernstein, boogie-woogie piano, rock ‘n’ roll, and a lifetime in thrall to the blithe border crossings of American popular music. I thought of Mississippi John Hurt, Fats Domino, Robert Johnson, Tom Rush, Stephen Foster, Taj Mahal, New York, the Appalachians and something called the South. And I thought of my dad, making my first guitar and setting me on my way along this track by the shores of dreams. I no longer seek meaning, but I can recommend the company.
So this album is built around some settings of Langston Hughes’ poems, together with a few of my own efforts at catching the beat of the human heart. It’s dedicated to anyone who has ever been a child, and, of course, to friends and family, past, present and future.”
- Phil Langran
More here: folkwit.com/artists/the-phil-langran-band
“When I first encountered the work of the great American poet Langston Hughes, I heard the voices of the last long century and more. I heard solitary cries and massed choruses, public outbursts and whispered hopes. Hughes’ lyrical, angry, tender but always impassioned words re-drew the map of poetry for me. But they also re-drew the musical map, singing out everything from field hollers to old world ballads, love songs and leaving blues. I thought of Louis Armstrong recording with Jimmie Rodgers. I thought of Romeo, Juliet, Porgy, Bess, Bernstein, boogie-woogie piano, rock ‘n’ roll, and a lifetime in thrall to the blithe border crossings of American popular music. I thought of Mississippi John Hurt, Fats Domino, Robert Johnson, Tom Rush, Stephen Foster, Taj Mahal, New York, the Appalachians and something called the South. And I thought of my dad, making my first guitar and setting me on my way along this track by the shores of dreams. I no longer seek meaning, but I can recommend the company.
So this album is built around some settings of Langston Hughes’ poems, together with a few of my own efforts at catching the beat of the human heart. It’s dedicated to anyone who has ever been a child, and, of course, to friends and family, past, present and future.”
- Phil Langran
More here: folkwit.com/artists/the-phil-langran-band
credits
released 09 December 2011
Phil Langran – vocals, acoustic guitar
Steve Benford – acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals
Frank McCarthy – electric guitar, vocals
Mark Walker - bass, vocals
Pippa Marland – alto & soprano sax, vocals
…with special guest Ian Beestin on drums
Vocal arrangments by Frank McCarthy
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY FRANK MCCARTHY IN WEST BRIDGFORD, NOTTINGHAM
Phil Langran – vocals, acoustic guitar
Steve Benford – acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals
Frank McCarthy – electric guitar, vocals
Mark Walker - bass, vocals
Pippa Marland – alto & soprano sax, vocals
…with special guest Ian Beestin on drums
Vocal arrangments by Frank McCarthy
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY FRANK MCCARTHY IN WEST BRIDGFORD, NOTTINGHAM
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