How Well I Remember - Debut CD
Ned Couch - Guitars, vocals, banjo, mandolin
Den Couch - Vocals, piano, keyboard, accordion, whistle, recorder
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| The
Day You Were Taken Away grew from an account of an execution on
Plymouth Hoe in the 18th Century when prisoners were taken from the
Citadel to the Promenade and shot in front of the crowd. |
| John
Merrick’s London Greycoats fought on the Parliamentarian side,
around Devon & Cornwall during the English Civil War 1642-1646. A
partly-fictionalised account of a Westcountry battle, with characters from
history. |
| Lisbon,
one of the numerous traditional songs about the Peninsular wars. The last
verse is Den’s. |
| The
Trees They Do Grow High, a tale of a teenage girl betrothed to a boy
much too young; the words and melody were taken down in 1888. (Trad) |
| Young
Boy No More is another tribute to the brave British soldier, just one
of Ned’s obsessions! |
| The
Battle’s Over was inspired by the wives who followed their husbands
into battle and nursed the wounded. |
| There
I Must Lie - Was Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII a witch and
adulteress or a victim of court intrigue? After just three years of
marriage, during which time she gave birth to the future queen Elizabeth
I, she was convicted of high treason and beheaded in May 1536. King Henry
was betrothed to Jane Seymour the day after his wife’s execution. |
| Soldiers
of Britain was sparked off by an old photograph of the last military
pageant at the Brickfields in Plymouth, Devon. |
| Lonely
in the Crowd was penned on Plymouth Hoe during the 1999 eclipse. |
| When
You Go was written for a friend. |
| The
Bloody Eleventh was the nickname given to the Devonshire Regiment.
This is a true account of a battle in Salamanca, Spain on July 22, 1812,
in which 341 officers and men of the First Battalion were lost during the
Peninsular Wars. |
| When
the Fire Died. An up-to-date tale of a couple whose dream is to live
out in the wilds of Dartmoor. |
| Lord
Preserve Us is reputed to be a true folk tale from Dartmoor circa
1800. Pamela Trudie Hodge, from the Hyde Folk Club in Plymouth, wrote it
first as a story that Den asked her to turn into a song. |
| Fairisle;
the idea came from a book of Celtic knitting patterns! There was a custom
in Scotland of the women knitting complex patterns for their men’s
sweaters, to enable their bodies to be identified if they were drowned. |
