Romantic Fiction 2

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Nicole: The most popular song in the Lamont repetoire after Ballad of Bob Dylan. This was done in the Sound Station studio with Lynsey Hutchinson (drums, b vox and bass), Cynthia Roland (brass) and Calais Brown (bass and production); Listen (extract)
Crying in the Street: Simple and sad. You can't contain your grief, how does everyone else manage? Another way of looking at this song is as a portrayal of the most extreme self-pity, but who hasn't been there? Listen (full song)
When I Went to Your House: Narrative story, sung by Tricia Thom, of the start - and maybe the end - of an affair. I wasn't sure which ending I wanted, so left it open with an ambiguous final phrase.; Listen (extract)
Submarine Girl: A stomper with no suggestive lyrics at all, no none, not one. At some gigs this has become an excuse for call and response community singing. To have a large number of people chanting 'hubbla-bubbla-bubbla-bubbla' is a way of getting even with the world.; Listen (extract)
The Water Is Wide: A haunting traditional song with several guest vocalists - Valerie Densmore, who played oboe with The Houdini Box, the Edinburgh a capella trio the Decibelles, and Mary Robbs, former violinist with the Innocents. I learned the song from Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review; I'd used this arrangement a few years before for a different traditional song with a different singer. It was inspired by the song Stolen Car on Bruce Springsteen's The River.; Listen (extract)

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