Dave Arthur - Someone To Love You

Someone to Love You is a selection of some of my favourite songs I've sung with Rattle on the Stovepipe from 2003 to 2017. The songs are all greatly enhanced by the fabulous musicianship of Chris, Pete and Dan from the band. As some of the early CDs are no longer available, and later ones will eventually run out, I fancied pulling a bunch of the songs together on one CD before they disappear. Mainly for myself, family and friends, and, of course, anyone else who fancy's listening to an album of just Anglo-Appalachian songs. It's a mix of famiiar and less familiar titles but generally not in quite the way you will have heard them before. We always try and make the songs (and tunes) our own. As traditional music has always been in a state of flux, and traditional performers invariably perform their material 'their way', we have no qualms about moving, rewriting, or reassembling lyrics, and adapting, changing and in some cases writing new tunes to songs and ballads. If done with love and understanding and respect for the tradition then little harm will come to it. Our original sources are always there in books, on record and in folkmusic archives to be studied and appreciated should anyone so wish.