The Further Adventures of Darling Cory (2002)

About this title: This album continues in much the same manner as Lehto and Wright's 2000 offering, Ye Mariners All. Exceptionally talented on guitars and bass, respectively, Steve Lehto and John Wright evoke memories of arguably the strongest period in Fairport Convention's storied career -- their early-'70s period, particularly 1970's Full House -- that is, when this duo decides to play electric folk. The hitch is that Lehto and Wright are such fine acoustic musicians and interpreters of tradition that they dutifully need to devote as much album space to acoustic fingerpicking as rock & roll. With a vast ... read more

Tracks:

1. Horn [Drake]
2. Arthur McBride and the Sergeant/The Backwards Jig [Traditional]
3. The Raveled Hank of Yarn/The Baffled Knight [Traditional]
4. Gan Ainm/The Three Little Drummers/The Trouble With Strings [Traditional/Lehto]
5. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy [Seeger]
6. Bridge [Wright]
7. The Monaghan Jig [Traditional]
8. Flora [Traditional]
9. Darling Cory [Traditional]
10. The Lament for Limerick [Traditional]
11. Nancy Whiskey [Traditional]
12. Loch Lomand [Traditional]
13. The Yellow Wattle/An Phis Fliuch/The Mountain Road [Traditional]
14. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine [Hays/Gilbert/Heller]
15. Handsome Johnny/The Humors of Whitegate [Havens/Goussett]
16. Her Washbin [Wright]
17. Horn [Drake]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.