The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society

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The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
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Studio album by
Released17 August 2014
Genre Folk
Label Domino
Producer Alexis Taylor
James Yorkston chronology
I Was a Cat from a Book
(2012)
The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
(2014)
The Route to the Harmonium
(2019)
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The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society is a studio album by James Yorkston.

Contents

The album was released on 17 August 2014 and is the seventh studio album by Yorkston. It was produced by Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip in London's Livingston studio. KT Tunstall, The Pictish Trail and Taylor feature on the album.

Track listing

  1. "Fellow Man"
  2. "The Blues You Sang"
  3. "Sweet Sweet"
  4. "Guy Fawkes' Signature"
  5. "Thinking About Kat"
  6. "Feathers Are Falling"
  7. "Broken Wave (A Blues for Doogie)"
  8. "Red Fox"
  9. "King of the Moles"
  10. "Great Ghosts"
  11. "Sleep On"
  12. "Embers"
  13. "Honey on Thigh"
  14. "As Grey and As White"
  15. "The Very Very Best"
  16. "You & Your Sister" (Chris Bell)

All tracks written by Yorkston except where shown.

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