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genre: folk
country: uk
quality : lossless (fac, cue, log, scans)
time: 46'33" size: 344 mb
misc: 1997
Tapestry Of Delights:
Born
in Leeds on 24th January 1941 Chapman was an important figure in the
singer/songwriter phenomenon of the seventies. He'd originally worked as
an art and photography teacher in Hull, but gave this up in 1967 to
become a folkie. He soon secured a contract with EMI's new progressive
Harvest label and recorded a series of albums which you need to check
out if you're into this musical genre. In fact, their content wasn't
entirely confined to solo folk singer material. Chapman pulled in a
number of session musicians and acquaintances to assist on these albums
including Rick Kemp who later played with Steeleye Span; Mick Ronson,
who was later guitarist for David Bowie and drummers Richie Dharma and
Keef Hartley. As a consequence many of these albums included guitar
instrumentals and rock as opposed to folk material. After he signed to
Decca his work veered further towards rock.
Chapman
never attained much more than a cult following over here but on the
Continent, where he had a live album issued (in Germany), Pleasures Of
The Street, he was much more popular.
01. Aviator 9:34
02. Naked Ladies & Electric Ragtime 2:42 03. Stranger In The Room 5:36 04. Postcards Of Scarborough 5:19 05. Fishbeard Sunset 0:39 06. Soulful Lady 4:15 07. Rabbit Hills 4:10 08. March Rain 3:46 09. Kodak Ghosts 3:20 10. Andru's Easy Rider 2:09 11. Trinkets & Rings 5:03
Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Written-By, Artwork By - Michael Chapman
Bass - Rick Kemp
Drums, Congas - Barry Morgan
Engineer - Tom Allom
Guitar - Mick Ronson
Gis Dudgeon - scraper
Paul Buckmaster - cello on 01
Michael Chapman (1969)
Michael Chapman was a singer/songwriter from Hull, who signed to Harvest Records and released his debut album Rainmaker
in 1969. His bass player on that record was Rick Kemp, a regular on the
Hull scene and a friend of Mick Ronson's. Rick suggested Ronson when
Chapman got ready to record his second Harvest album, and the two got
together a few times at Chapman's house and immediately hit it off. Gus
Dudgeon, Chapman's producer, was initially resistant to using Mick on
the album, but Chapman insisted. (Dudgeon wanted to use Mick Wayne from
Junior's Eyes, who had recently recorded with Bowie.) Mick traveled to
London for the recording sessions, which were done at Regent Studios.
Mick played all the electric guitar on the album, and immediately won
over Gus Dudgeon with his playing. The resulting album, Fully Qualified Survivor, was issued in 1970 by Harvest. It was Mick's first appearance on vinyl.
Mick also performed a few BBC John Peel sessions with
Michael Chapman. On 13 December 1971, he recorded a four-track session
with Michael Chapman, Rick Kemp, Alex Atterson, Johnny Van Derek, and
Laurie Allan. On 20 March 1972 and 14 January 1975, the same lineup
recorded additional four-song Peel sessions. Mick would return in 1976
to play guitar on another Michael Chapman album, The Man Who Hated Mornings.
Johnny van Derek - violin on 01
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Michael Chapman ~ 1970 ~ Fully Qualified Survivor
