Thanks for this. Love Family. Great band and what a voice! Good memories here, saw them at The Van Dyke Club, Plymouth July 24th 1969 and they were brilliant. Got to chat and have a drink with RC after the gig. Nice bloke. Seem to remember him saying he was a scaffolder before he made it in the music business.
This bittersweet celebration of life on the dole in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne was written by Alan Hull, the lead singer of Tyneside folk rockers Lindisfarne. He originally performed it during his solo folk club shows. It's just a good chorus line iceman in a song about drinking beer, pissing on a wall etc Fog is common in winter on Tyneside, I guess Alan Hull took ownership on a lyrical basis :))
Been a fan of Lindisfarne since 1968, so know about Alan and this band...
Harmonica content - Lindisfarne had harmonica in many of their studio songs, but a few of their live albums have excellent extended harmonica solos. One had TB on the right style melody/chord playing first position.
little known fact - mandolin player from Lindisfarne got studio call to lay down a track for union scale. Song was "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart, which became the most well known mandolin session in the world.
btw, let's drink drink drink to Lilly the Pink Pink Pink! ---------- The Iceman
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