Wenlock Hill (Merrymouth album)

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Wenlock Hill
Studio album by
Merrymouth
Released5 May 2014
Studio Rockfield Studios, UK
Genre Folk rock
Label Navigator Records
Producer Dan Sealey & Adam Barry
Merrymouth chronology
Simon Fowler's Merrymouth
(2012)
Wenlock Hill
(2014)

Wenlock Hill is the second album by Merrymouth, a folk band featuring Simon Fowler and Dan Sealey from Ocean Colour Scene, and Adam Barry. It was released in May 2014 and entered the UK Official Album Charts at #71.

Contents

Track listing

All songs are written by Fowler, unless stated

  1. Wenlock Hill
  2. Salt Breeze
  3. Blink of an Eye (Sealey)
  4. Being Without You
  5. I Am the Resurrection (Ian Brown and John Squire)
  6. That Man
  7. Teashop Serande
  8. Duchess (The Stranglers)
  9. He Was A Friend Of Mine (traditional, new words and arrangement Jim McGuinn with additional lyrics by Fowler/Sealey/Barry)
  10. If You Follow
  11. The Ragged Spiral (Fowler/Sealey)

The lyrics to the song "He Was a Friend of Mine" have been adapted to be about the killing of John Lennon.

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