Special Agent (album)

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Special Agent
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Studio album by
Released 1981
Genre Folk
Label Waterfront Records
Producer Ric Sanders, Martin Simpson
Martin Simpson chronology
Golden Vanity
(1976)
Special Agent
(1981)
Grinning in Your Face
(1983)

Special Agent is a folk album by Martin Simpson released in 1981.

Martin Simpson British folk guitarist and singer

Martin Stewart Simpson is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond.

Contents

Produced by Ric Sanders and Martin Simpson, recorded at Moor Green Studios, Rock, Wyre Forest. Originally issued by Waterfront in the UK, catalogue number WF 008.

Wyre Forest

Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural woodland and forest measuring 26.34 square kilometres (10.17 sq mi) which straddles the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England.

Typically of an early Simpson album, it embraces both contemporary and traditional pieces and includes a Randy Newman song.

Track listing

  1. "Special Agent" (Sleepy John Estes)
  2. "Desperados Waiting for a Train" (Guy Clark)
  3. Guitar Medley: "The Frost is All Over / The Redheaded Boil" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
  4. "Roustabout" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
  5. "Jamaica Farewell" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
  6. Banjo Medley: "Barlow Knife / Shoot The Turkey Buzzard / Denis Murphy's Polka" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
  7. "Joshua Gone Barbados" (Eric Von Schmidt)
  8. "McCrimmon's Lament" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
  9. "Broke Down Engine" (words Traditional; arranged Simpson /music Simpson)
  10. "The Demon Lover" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
  11. "You Win Again" (Hank Williams)
  12. "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (Randy Newman)

Personnel

Ric Sanders British violinist

Richard 'Ric' Sanders is an English violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, British folk rock and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.

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