by Ailis
Jim Causley - Fruits Of The Earth (2005)
In this stunning debut album, Jim Causley conjures a happy mixture of slow tempo and more upbeat songs, all of them simply but superbly arranged. (Some of them are even performed a cappella!). Causley updates all of these old songs - adding some of his own material on the way - and provides them with the freshness both his youth and his passion for this musical heritage bestows.
The quality of Causley's voice - often overshadowing his beautiful playing - could easily be praised as a natural talent, a charm lacking in artifice... the truth is, only voices which are very sure of themselves and very well atuned to the material they sing can come off so perfectly, and his does.
Jim Causley's Fruits of the Earth is the present and the future of English folk music. Now grab it before somebody else does!
Tracks:
01 - John Barleycorn 3:35
02 - Arscott of Tetcott 6:11
03 - Tan Yard Side 2:59
04 - The Pricklie Bush 4:16
05 - Old Riverside 3:19
06 - Harvest Song 4:22
07 - Rewind 4:57
08 - The Carnal and the Crane 3:36
09 - Lusty Young Smith 2:58
10 - Sing Ivy 4:03
11 - The Whimple Wassail 6:09
12 - Yonders Hill 3:09
13 - Unwind 2:04
Doug Bailey said...
It seems that you are offering a download of this album from your site. Whohas given you permission to do this?
Doug Bailey
WildGoose www.wildgoose.co.uk
May Cottage, Fullerton Road, Wherwell, Hampshire SP11 7JS
01264 860569
In this stunning debut album, Jim Causley conjures a happy mixture of slow tempo and more upbeat songs, all of them simply but superbly arranged. (Some of them are even performed a cappella!). Causley updates all of these old songs - adding some of his own material on the way - and provides them with the freshness both his youth and his passion for this musical heritage bestows.
The quality of Causley's voice - often overshadowing his beautiful playing - could easily be praised as a natural talent, a charm lacking in artifice... the truth is, only voices which are very sure of themselves and very well atuned to the material they sing can come off so perfectly, and his does.
Jim Causley's Fruits of the Earth is the present and the future of English folk music. Now grab it before somebody else does!
Tracks:
01 - John Barleycorn 3:35
02 - Arscott of Tetcott 6:11
03 - Tan Yard Side 2:59
04 - The Pricklie Bush 4:16
05 - Old Riverside 3:19
06 - Harvest Song 4:22
07 - Rewind 4:57
08 - The Carnal and the Crane 3:36
09 - Lusty Young Smith 2:58
10 - Sing Ivy 4:03
11 - The Whimple Wassail 6:09
12 - Yonders Hill 3:09
13 - Unwind 2:04
Doug Bailey said...
It seems that you are offering a download of this album from your site. Whohas given you permission to do this?
Doug Bailey
WildGoose www.wildgoose.co.uk
May Cottage, Fullerton Road, Wherwell, Hampshire SP11 7JS
01264 860569
posted by Lizardson at 1:50 AM
9 Comments:
You built this up a lot with the "present and future of British folk" claim and I gotta say it lives up to it. I never would have heard of this talent otherwise so thanks very much for posting.
Dave
Jim currently earns a living as a waiter at his local Cafe Rouge. If you like this album, please help Jim to continue to bring out more by buying a copy - readily available at Amazon.
Lizardson, great blog, but posting readily available albums by current/emerging artists doesn't help anyone...
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asap I'll add cover images
surely I'll see him live if I can, possibly I'll buy his cd, but if Ailis had not posted it, I'd never be informed of him
I somewhat agree with Ploughboy, the blog is best when it's hooking us up with artists whose work is OOP or almost impossible to obtain.
That said, exposure here *could* give a new artist much-needed promotion.
So, are you sure you want to give this record company free advertising? Since they hit you with a takedown notice, why not remove the album description altogether, and let them pay for all their adverts?
Anonymous- Wild Goose do pay for adverts in the Folk/Roots/World music press. They are a small label, issuing niche music (mainly traditional UK folk) to a small market. CDs are often issued in runs of 500. No-one - not Doug, not the artists - are getting rich off this. Fifty downloads from a site like this can be the difference between a Wild Goose (or insert name of your favourite small label here) release breaking even or not. The less that break even, the less money there is to throw into the pot for further releases and before you know it another small label boss says, "Sod it! It's not worth it..."
It's great that we have all this unavailable stuff up here to check out - it's the blatant bootlegging of albums like this that I'm not comfortable with. I'm sure one or two people might buy the CD as a result of downloading it first, but most won't.
Personally, if I were Lizardson, I would happily give Wild Goose and Jim Causley some free advertising, to make up for sticking a current and readily available album up here without permission.
And if any of you want to listen to new and newish UK folk acts for free, to decide if you'd like to buy their albums, I can give you some good links if you've interested... but they're listening sites not download sites.
Cheerio,
Ploughboy
Why doesn't Wild Goose see this as an opportunity and create compilations for blogs like Lizardson's to showcase the artists and albums they wish to promote? As part of the package they could include bio material & links to their website and/or amazon.
We don't need to have a complete copy of a CD to decide whether we want to buy it or not - one or two tracks would suffice. Albums released in runs of 500 could do with as much publicity as possible.
Tom - that's a brilliant idea. Of course, this would only work with reasonably honourable bloggers like Lizardson. I think I'll email WG and suggest it.
Cheerio
Ploughboy
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