| Eddie Lawler: CD - BAILDON SKY ROCKET |
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, Eddie Lawler's 3rd CD was launched in the Half Moon Cafe, Roberts Park on 20th May.
This album looks broadly at our lives and experiences with songs about Emily Bronte, the welfare state and the Massacre of Glencoe. Eddie’s guitar and voice is completed by keyboards and backing vocals. The settings help the listener to focus on Eddie’s astute lyrics which move from the whimsical to the serious. The songs are never confrontational; Eddie is far more subtle than that. It’s like sitting by the fire in the pub being entertained, his witty observations charming you more with every drink.
The songs are in a range of styles, from simple acoustic folk through to music hall, but their core is the communal observation that runs throughout the tradition.This is someone singing about the world around him and able to see the humour around us. At a time of profound social change, we need a positive creative outlook more than ever.
You can buy this item to be shipped to you, or download the music from the Woven Wheat website.
. Play list... 
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1. Windmills – there’s a family live up on Haworth Moor keeps being refused planning permission for a wind-generator. They have to burn diesel instead. The simple technology of wind-power has been held back for 40 years. It’s called progress…..
2. Walking to Bradford……so now we have to go to war to get the diesel. Alienating many of my fellow-Bradfordians. This is the Age of Great Disappointment
3. Ballad of Frizinghall - I got this story from a paperback of tales from West Yorkshire. And added a little touch of my own.
4. Urban Illusions Ltd. – speaks for itself, I hope.
5. Emily Brontë’s Song – when my musical “Bells” was performed, the young lady playing Emily took fright at the intervals in this unaccompanied folk-style song and simply recited it. At the time of recording, no woman has ever performed this song, it’s as if Emily doesn’t want them to. She doesn’t seem to mind me having a go…..
6. Blind Jack Metcalf’s Song – this musical “Makin’ Light” is still waiting to be performed. A major theme is “what is a hero?”. Blind Jack is one of my heroes. But I bet he would not have accepted the honour……
7. It’s a Cat’s Life - Saltaire where I live has four large cats (stone lions) and many smaller cousins made of fur and miaow. The latter run Saltaire, and are amply rewarded for it.
8. Shut It! – as a child of the Welfare State I have spent much of my life observing the squeezing and closing down of many local facilities. This song is sung in the musical by four guys in dark suits and white masks.
9. The Massacre of Glencoe – with apologies to the Scottish Tourist Board, a tale of Innocence and Experience.
10. The Baildon Sky-Rocket says, like the title-song of my last CD, Bradford Beck, as much about myself as the world I live in. But why not walk along Green Lane and see it for yourself? Buy yourself some fish and chips, they taste great while you sit and contemplate on the grass of Baildon Bank
11. CAMRAnthem – this song is ancient, the original version was composed in the 70’s as signature tune for Barrie Pepper’s “What’s Brewing” on BBC Radio Leeds. It only needed a tweak or two to fit 2007……
Eddie is keen to support listeners and will be delighted to provide copies of his lyrics on request to eddie@eddielawler.co.uk
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