I made suggestions and did a modicum of editing. I asked him to write the notes because I literally could not write them properly myself. I first met him at Oberlin College in 1957 when I was barrelling west on my Lambretta motor scooter from New York to Chicago, where I was taking up a three-month stint at The Gate of Horn. He knows about as many songs as I do but seems to remember them better these days. I have been friends with Joe, from nearby and at a distance, for nearly fifty years. THE NOTES have been written by Joe Hickerson. Charles and John are in the car with my father's hand on John's shoulder. It portrays my father with his first wife, Constance (a superb violinist) and their three boys. This website will announce their arrival.įor those who are interested: the cover photograph was taken ca. She's Coming Home (2005?) will be almost entirely in a light and bawdy vein. Love, Call Me Home (2004 issue, hopefully) will be a mix of heavy and light traditional songs with a few new songs that are in the Anglo-American folk idiom. It is the most serious of the three projected CDs. They also donated supporting vocals as did my daughter Kitty who, with her friend Katie Lillington designed the booklet and the cover.Ī total family production! Heading for Home is the first album of THE HOME TRILOGY. Irene sings with me on one song, Neill and Calum are responsible for the recording, accompaniments, direction and production. The 'push' came from my partner, Irene Pyper-Scott and from my children Neill, Calum and Kitty MacColl. These are songs with which I feel completely at home, songs which have lasted for generations and which, I hope, will last for generations more. The selection is classic, the accompaniments simple. The songs on Heading for Home are, all but one, Anglo-American traditional pieces. For years I have not recorded traditional songs as so many other singers have done so. THE ALBUM is one I have been planning to record for years.
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