Sad or High Kicking

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Released 1985 Release date 1985 Label Topic Records		Artist Martin Simpson Producer Martin Simpson Genre Folk music
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Sad or High Kicking is a folk album by Martin Simpson recorded and released in 1985.

Produced at Ideal Sound Recorders, London by Tony Engle and Martin Simpson. Originally issued by Topic Records in the UK, catalogue number 12TS438.

Like most Martin Simpson albums, it includes a mixture of contemporary and traditional pieces.

Track listing

"Jazzman" (Holstein)
"Shawnee Town" (Dillon Bustin)
"Moth" (Anne Lister)
"Living Without You" (Randy Newman)
"For Jessica, Sad or High Kicking" (Simpson)/ "My Dearest Dear" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
"Icarus" (Anne Lister)
"No Depression in Heaven" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)
"Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë)
"Stillness in Company" (Jessica Radcliffe)
"The Lakes of Ponchartrain" (Traditional; arranged Simpson)

Martin Simpson - vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel, dobro

Micky Barker - drums, percussion

Johnathan Davie - electric bass guitars

Laurie Harper - fiddle, mandoline

Rob Mason - harmonica

with

Dave Clewlow - trumpets, flugelhorn

Ian Blake - Clarinets

Andrew Cronshaw - Zither, stellpans

1Jazzman3:56
2Shawnee Town3:50
3Moth4:04

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