''True Stories'' is a 2009 album recorded by the English guitarist and banjo player

Martin Simpson Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond. He builds a purposeful, often upbeat voi ...

and released on the

Topic Records Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.M. Brocken, ...

label. The album features a mixture of traditional and original material.

Track listing

# "Look Up, Look Down" - 3:22 # "Sir Patrick Spens" - 3:54 # "Greystones" - 4:19 # "Home Again" - 4:35 # "The Wind And The Rain" - 5:21 # "One Day" - 4:00 # "Will Atkinson" - 3:59 # "Kielder Schottische" - 2:43 # "Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender" - 6:52 # "Done It Again" - 4:02 # "An Englishman Abroad" - 4:22 # "Swooping Molly" - 2:18 # "Stagolee" - 3:29 All titles trad. except 3, 4,7, 10, 11, 12 by Martin Simpson and 6 by Martin Simpson / Martin Taylor

Personnel

- banjola, dobro, guitars, 5-string banjo, percussion, vocals, production *

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- drums, percussion * Keith Angel - drums, percussion * Danny Thompson - bass * Andy Cutting - accordion *

BJ Cole Brian John Cole is an English pedal steel guitarist, who has long been active as a session and solo musician. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise, Cole has played in many styles, ranging from mainstream pop and rock to ...

- pedal steel *

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- vocals *

Nigel Eaton Nigel Eaton is a British multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for playing the hurdy-gurdy. Born in Lyndhurst, Eaton played the piano and cello before switching to the hurdy-gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began manufact ...

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* Andy Seward - bass, production, mixing *

Kellie While Kellie While is an English folk singer-songwriter. Early career Born in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, she is the daughter of singer-songwriter Chris While and pianist-songwriter Joe While. She began performing with her mother in local folk c ...

- vocals *

Jon Boden Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a proponent of "English traditional fiddle style" and also of "fiddle si ...

- fiddle * Denis Blackham - mastering * Hugo Morris - Photography

References

* Martin Simpson albums 2009 albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub