Truth To Tell (Hubris Records HUB008)
Released: 20th July 2015
UK distribution: Proper Music Distribution
CD Available from the ONLINE STORE
• also available as MP3 download
Tracks:
01 Grass Days 4:01
Steve Tilston: 10 & 6 string acoustic guitars, Spanish guitar, Vocals
David Crickmore: Electric Double Bass, Autoharp, Percussion
sample clip: Grass Days
02 The Way It Was 3:04
for Stuart Gordon
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Vocal
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Melodeon
03 Cup And Lip 4:58
Steve Tilston: 10 string Acoustic guitar, Vocals
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Percussion
sample clip: Cup And Lip
04 Died For Love 3:38
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
sample clip: Died For Love
05 Yo Me Voy 4:37
Steve Tilston: 10 string Acoustic guitar, Spanish guitar, Arpeggione, Vocals
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Melodeon
06 Pick Up Your Heart 3:55
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Pedal Steel guitar, Percussion
07 The Riverman Has Gone 3:55
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
08 Pecket’s Well 4:55
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar
09 Bygone Lands 4:46
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Piano, Pedal Steel guitar
sample clip: Bygone Lands
10 Lasting Love 4:13
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Vocals
David Crickmore: Electric Double Bass, Percussion
11 Running out of Road 3:28
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Pedal Steel guitar
12 All Around This World 3:52
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
13 Ways of a Man 3:11
Steve Tilston: Acoustic guitar, Vocal
Hugh Bradley: Double Bass
David Crickmore: Piano, Percussion
Produced by David Crickmore
Arranged by Steve Tilston
Mastered by Neil Ferguson
Recorded at Splid Studios, Haworth , West Yorkshire
From the start, Steve Tilston has written songs in which the past informs his present. There are very few writers in any medium who know the difference between nostalgia and sentimentality. Steve has always had a proportionate sense of those blue remembered hills, recollected with affection and accuracy, but never through rose-tinted retrospection.
He recalls and recaptures people, places and personal experiences with a clarity that keeps them vivid. We all have photographs and memories and here he shares a dozen…some distant, some recent. Not that this is mere autobiography: Steve’s songs have the validity of experience, but depend neither on allusive literalness that almost demands footnotes, nor on a Dylanesque nightingale’s code in need of elucidation.
Each and every song stands firm, assured and fully realised in its own right – truths told and at the same time telling. Like the familiar traditional song, included here, they are genuinely timeless – at once then-and-there and here-and-now.
- Nigel Schofield