Simon Fowler's Merrymouth

Simon Fowler's Merrymouth is the debut solo album by Simon Fowler (the singer/songwriter from Ocean Colour Scene) it contains six original Fowler compositions, one of those ("Over My Head") being an OCS re-working. Released on 26 March 2012, it features Fowler (vocals and acoustic guitar), Dan Sealey (vocals and guitars), Mike McNamara (double and electric fretless basses, piano, organ, percussion and guitar), John McCusker (violins, cittern and low whistle) and Andy Cutting (melodeon).[1]

Simon Fowler's Merrymouth
Studio album by
Merrymouth
Released26 March 2012
StudioGospel Oak Studio, Warwickshire, UK
GenreFolk rock
LabelPledgeMusic
ProducerDan Sealey & Mike McNamara
Merrymouth chronology
Simon Fowler's Merrymouth
(2012)
Wenlock Hill
(2014)

All songs are written by Simon Fowler, unless otherwise stated. The album contains a Bert Jansch song, "Courting Blues", and the lyrics of a W. B. Yeats poem "The Stolen Child", put to a melody written by Fowler and music by Merrymouth.

Produced by Dan Sealey and Mike McNamara. Recorded at Gospel Oak Studio, Warwickshire, England by Barry 'Baz' Bayliss. Engineered by Bayliss and Alfie Manders

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Mr Scott Music5/5 [2]

Track listing

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All tracks composed by Simon Fowler; except where indicated

  1. "Holy Day"
  2. "The Trees They Grow So High" (Traditional)
  3. "Sweetest Words"
  4. "Last Train But One" (Dan Sealey)
  5. "Courting Blues" (Bert Jansch)
  6. "Midst of Summertime" (Sealey)
  7. "Prometheus"
  8. "The Stolen Child" (Poem by W. B. Yeats. Melody by Fowler. Music by Merrymouth)
  9. "The Shadow Knows"
  10. "Mr Marshall" (Sealey)
  11. "Over My Head"
  12. "The First Rites of Spring"

References

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  1. ^ "Merrymouth: Simon Fowler: Amazon.co.uk: MP3 Downloads". Amazon UK. Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Simon Fowler's Merrymouth".