💍 As is so often the case, Lesley Rae Dowling’s lyrics are cryptic, her delivery - always full of emotion. For us this new release rates up near the top of the many great songs that she has come up with, but it has surprisingly, never been promoted as a single. Her writing had matured by the time she wrote this one. The lyrics show careful attention to how they are placed in the rhythmic flow. The melodies and other musical elements display the same level of experienced compositional skill. This song was brought to Tully McCully by Lesley after the experience of her writing the songs for the When the night comes album, which itself showed a new level of songwriting from her. Not everything they prepared was actually released. Tully and Lesley Rae Dowling (LRD) worked on numerous musical ideas together, some of these were unfinished, and have subsequently joined the remix release series. This song was one that never made it onto one of the McCully produced records. LRD (c) P Lee-
🪕 Mountain Records is proud to announce a new recording venture, Jasper's Acolytes . Album cover (c) Songwrights Publishers The project is the brainchild of producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tully McCully. Though there will be some original songs recorded, the focus this time is on his arrangements of well known folk music and acoustic hits. His first batch are nostalgic and gentle folk songs that hark back to the acoustic era of the 1960s. Jasper's Acolytes places sharp focus on melodies, harmonies and acoustic instruments. Both instrumentation and production are kept minimal and all recordings are done with authentic analogue sound and feel. Debut album (an EP of seven songs) ' Memory Lane ' "encapsulates and recaptures the simpler sounds of simpler times”, says Tully. The album is a collection of faithful covers of nostalgic classics like debut single ' The Green Leaves of Summer ' as well as the haunting original composition and second