''Wenlock Hill'' is the second album by Merrymouth, a folk band featuring

Simon Fowler Simon Geoffrey Fowler (born 25 May 1965 in Meriden, Warwickshire) is an English singer and acoustic guitarist, best known as the frontman of Ocean Colour Scene. The Fanatics Simon Fowler commenced his music career as the lead singer and songwr ...

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Dan Sealey Dan Sealey is the former session bass guitarist for the rock group Ocean Colour Scene. He was drafted in by the band after Damon Minchella left the band in 2003. Sealey is also in Merrymouth, a folk band with Ocean Colour Scene bandmate Sim ...

from

Ocean Colour Scene Ocean Colour Scene (often abbreviated to OCS) are an English rock band formed in Solihull in 1989. They have had five top 10 albums including a number one in 1997. They have also achieved seventeen top 40 singles and six top 10 singles to dat ...

, and

Adam Barry Adam Barry (born 4 April 1981) is the English Hammond organ/piano/accordion/harmonica/backing vocalist for the folk group Merrymouth (band), Merrymouth, led by Barry, Simon Fowler and Dan Sealey from Ocean Colour Scene. Before joining Merrymouth, ...

. It was released in May 2014 and entered the UK Official Album Charts at #71.

Track listing

All songs are written by Simon Fowler, unless stated # "Wenlock Hill" # "Salt Breeze" # "Blink of an Eye" (Sealey) # "Being Without You" # "

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" ( Ian Brown, John Squire) # "That Man" # "Teashop Serande" # "

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He Was a Friend of Mine "He Was a Friend of Mine" is a traditional folk song in which the singer laments the death of a friend. Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax was the first to collect the song, in 1939, describing it as a "blues" that was "a dirge for a dead comrade." T ...

" (Traditional, new words and arrangement Jim McGuinn with additional lyrics by Fowler, Sealey, Barry) # "If You Follow" # "The Ragged Spiral" (Fowler, Sealey) The lyrics to the song "He Was a Friend of Mine" have been adapted to be about the killing of

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Personnel

*Simon Fowler – vocals, acoustic guitar *Dan Sealey – vocals, guitars *Adam Barry – piano, Hammond organ, accordion, vocals *

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– violins *

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– piano

References

2012 debut albums Merrymouth (band) albums Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios {{2010s-folk-album-stub