Bric-a-Brac Box, by Frank Lee

Bric-a-Brac Box

by Frank Lee

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1.	About the Bush, Willie 02:45	info	buy track
2.	Dear Tobacco 03:07	info
3.	The Black and the Grey 02:18	info	buy track
4.	None so Pretty 03:08	info
5.	Cuckoo’s Nest 01:48	info	buy track
6.	Bobbin Joan 02:15	info	buy track
7.	The Bonny Pit Laddie 03:31	info	buy track
8.	Pour quoy 02:46	info
9.	Boyne Water 02:43	info	buy track
10.	Riggs of Marlowe 01:13	info	buy track
11.	Green Bracken 04:03	info	buy track
12.	I’ll go and Enlist 03:11	info	buy track
13.	Hunt the Squirrel 02:11	info	buy track
14.	Stingo 02:17	info	buy track
15.	Packington's Pound 03:59	info
16.	The Far Away Waltz 03:35	info	buy track
17.	Idbury Hill 02:15	info	buy track
18.	Kettledrum 01:57	info	buy track
19.	The Wounded Hussar 03:00	info	buy track
20.	Trunkles (Wheatley) 01:34	info	buy track
21.	Woodicock/An Old Man is a Bedful of Bones 04:18	info	buy track

about

'I began to play melodeon in 1977 after my then wife, Angela, bought one to play for Sue Allan’s morris team in Wigton, Cumbria'. Neither of us could make much sense of it until I had a ‘light bulb moment’ about how the left hand worked! From then on, I began to try to arrange all the tunes I knew for it. My parents played recorder and piano, and my primary and juniors schools in Durham imbued us with local songs. I started going to Newcastle Folksong and Ballad club in 1958 - smuggled-in underage - so I had a headful of music, mostly from the North of England. Over the decades I’ve picked-up a lot more from radio, from friends in sessions, and I’ve had to learn lots of tunes to play for the Carlisle, Hexham, and Black Gate Morris teams. I had been flattered by encouragement from a few friends to make this CD; perhaps they thought I was looking my 77 years and once I’d popped my clogs the melodeon arrangements would be gone forever. So I have to thank Steve for turning up at my house with a microphone and a recording device, putting his time where his mouth was, spending an evening recording the tunes, and then adding his matchless hurdy-gurdy (and other instruments) playing where appropriate. Steve and I had worked together in a band some 20 years previously. My wife Corrie joins some tracks on recorder or violin. The CD is really a record of a random selection of my arrangements of somewhat ‘off-the-beaten track’, but almost all traditional, melodeon tunes, perhaps in case any box players might find it of interest. All my arrangements are in a state of flux, but this is where they are right now.

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released December 10, 2022

Frank Lee - melodeons
The Boxes:- C/F - a 2-row 8 bass Castagnari Ilary
D/G - a 2-row 8 bass Castagnari 1914
G/C - a 2.1/2-row 12 bass Mengascini (7 accidentals)

Steve Tyler - hurdy gurdy (HG) by Chris Eaton, apart from track 12 by Sam Palmer, guitar (G), cittern (C)

Corrie Lee-Schrijver – violin (V), recorder (R) by Adrian Brown

Recorded by Steve Tyler; completed November 2022
Cover design by Entoptic Cat

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Frank Lee Carlisle, UK

I fell in love with traditional English music at an early age, and somewhere along the line a melodeon happened to me. I hated it. But then a light bulb moment happened and I realised how it worked, and have since been flattered I ‘play the thing as if it were a musical instrument!’ I joined a band with Steve Tyler, and after a 20 year break I’m overjoyed he’s pushed and kicked me into doing this. ... more

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