David Kilpatrick
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Jack O'Ryan Jack O'Ryan
The story of an Irish fiddler's deception by his apprentice. Also called Jack Orion, my version mixes two of the tunes variations and a touch of something alien...
Like Fallen Trees Like Fallen Trees
A gentle nylon-string acoustic guitar accompaniment to a lament for the passing of time and of old friends. "Thank God there still is some real music out there in this VengaBoy-world" - Roger Haggstrom
The Last Conquistadors The Last Conquistadors
A little song in a Latin rythm with a Canarian timple (a five-string viheula-shaped ukelele) providing local colour!
Blackwater Side Blackwater Side
As a flute or fiddle tune, a lovely air: as a song, a short and powerful evocative image. A free rendering with modern guitar accompaniment.
The Sally Gardens The Sally Gardens
w B Yeat's words not very accurately used and a slight variation to the tune sometimes given. Classical guitar and voice, one take recording.
A Bridge too Far A Bridge too Far
This is the second half of the original Over the Bridge to Skye recording. It was split in half for the Beyond the Emerant Lea album.
Troubadour Rag Troubadour Rag
A little sort-of-ragtime piece, capod at 5, on a Troubadour Blondel cittern-guitar fitted with a Pickup the World pickup.
In the Mirror In the Mirror
What does the man in the mirror - or the woman in the mirror - see, looking back at you? Is it the past, is it the future, or is it those shifting sands in between?
Hear Today Hear Today
This is my song for Nick Drake, borrowing a touch or two from his ideas but using my own regular drop D tuning.
Out of the Bag Out of the Bag
The baglama is a tiny Greek bouzouki family instrument about the size of a large spoon. It sounds like a soprano machine gun and it's great for renaissance-celtic modal jamming. This is a little piece to help persuade other musicians to try it!
Go Down Go Down
You can make your extra verses for this one! A goodtime hokum guitar unspiritual.
How the Story Goes How the Story Goes
A simple song with a simple story - How the Story Goes... guitar and vocals kept simple too.
Dreaming Dreaming
Think of all the things we've been able to do in this incredible age of the world, all the places we have been, everything we have seen together. If w'd both been born 2000 years ago this would have been a dream...
Fields of the West Fields of the West
A ballad in traditional style of emigrant yearning for the auld country, written by Dave Boothroyd who asked me to make a recording.
One Look One Look
I bought this new Washburn guitar and it had this tune built-in. All guitars I try seem to have songs hidden in them and they are all different!
Seventeen Going on Seventy Seventeen Going on Seventy
A new lyric in a very, very old tradition. British, US and Aussie listeners will be quite at home with this one... (humorous song, not serious, but certainly not daft either, and strictly for those with dirty minds, of course).
No-one Knows No-one Knows
Hear the words, and you should get the meaning. Everyone must have felt this sometime.
White Horses White Horses
Here's a song for all singers, songwriters and guitar pickers! Just a nice story; and where in the world do you think this could be set?
The Ship The Ship
British folk instruments and singing - but there's a hint of a steel band rythm in the song, and it's all about coral shores...
For You Alone I Walk This Road For You Alone I Walk This Road
This is a simple, driving, singable song - maybe it's about your partner, your mother, your father, your children; maybe it's about your faith, no matter who you believe in. It's another of those songs I never tried to write, it wrote itself.
