WINGS by Huw Parsons

A HUMBLE DELIGHT: Voice – Huw.
'Delightful Huw! Especially Hymnal and Simnal. Isn't it wonderful when rhymes just fit, funny when they don't quite and absolutely appalling when they don't exist?
Love. Sting.'

THE SPAN OF MY HAND: Voice – Huw.
This could also be called 'The Somerset Swallows.'

HER CROOKED SMILE: Huw's words arranged and performed as a song by John Eyre.
This is based upon the old nursery rhyme 'There Was A Crooked Man.'

DO YOU REALLY WANT ME AS A FRIEND: Voice – Huw.
A somewhat rambling poem based on the song 'Add Me' by the band Chumbawumber.

HANDS IN CHAINS: Voice – Huw.
Written after several visits to an 'Arts & Crafts' church at Llangasty on the Southern shore of Llangorse Lake.

HOW THE LOVE GETS IN: Voice – Huw. Recorded live at the 2013 'How The Light Gets In' festival at The Globe in Hay.
A tale of brief love and passion at a Hay Festival.

I WAS BLUE & LONELY: Voice – Huw. Piano – Cornelia Rahdes.
My version of a monologue written by Sting and Andy Summers which is part of a song by The Police called 'Be My Girl.'

YELLOW HANGDOWN: Voice – Huw. Violin – Jan Hurst. Guitar – David Cooper Orton.
A poem about the last public execution in England to take place at the scene of a crime. This happened in 1830 in the tiny village of Kenn in North Somerset.

THE VICAR'S JAGUAR: Voice – Huw. Violin – Jan Hurst. Guitar – David Cooper Orton.
Should a vicar own a limo? A simple question to which there are no doubt many answers but only one in my mind!

THE PROMISED LAND: Voices – Huw, Laurie Pyle and David Brockwell. Musical arrangement by David Brockwell.
This poem, about the miraculous migratory journey made by swifts, is grafted on to a song of the same title by the wonderful Chuck Berry.

AND THE BLACKBIRDS SANG: Voice – Huw. Music – Brecon (Saint Mary's) Hand-Bell Ringers and Brecon Cathedral Choir.
This track seamlessly blends the humorous and the spiritual. It touches on the Nativity, the pleasures of Las-Vegas and an unexpected miracle of nature and also has 'the oddest, the strangest, the vainest and the vaguest' vicar thrown into the mix for good measure.

BOILING KETTLES, FROZEN PIPES: Voice – Huw. Piano – Cornelia Rahdes.
Can I be the only person who doesn’t like the Queen’s Christmas day speech?
‘Quite possibly treasonous, certainly seditious, I'll come visit you in the Tower of London with a Christmas pud for two!’ Sting.

Tracklist

1.	A HUMBLE DELIGHT	1:57

2.	THE SPAN OF MY HAND	2:08

3.	HER CROOKED SMILE	1:45

4.	DO YOU REALLY WANT ME AS A FRIEND	2:50

5.	HANDS IN CHAINS	2:21

6.	HOW THE LOVE GETS IN	4:23

7.	I WAS BLUE AND LONELY	2:33

8.	YELLOW HANGDOWN	4:26

9.	THE VICAR'S JAGUAR	2:35

10.	THE PROMISED LAND	4:12

11.	AND THE BLACKBIRDS SANG	5:17

12.	BOILING KETTLES, FROZEN PIPES	3:52

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released December 20, 2013

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