Steel Skies
by Alistair Anderson
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 1982
- Label: Topic
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 52:38
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Alistair Anderson, a founding member of the High Level Ranters who had left the band three years earlier, plays English concertina and Northumbrian smallpipes alongside fiddlers Tony Corcoran and Chuck Fleming, flautist Martin Dunn and mandolinist Robin Dunn. The title track is an original extended suite Anderson drew from the landscapes of Newcastle and Northumberland.
Genres
Descriptors: traditional, acoustic, instrumental, melodic, virtuosic
Tracklist
- First Light / Rhymeside 1 / Rhymeside 2 / Mountain Stream / Rhymeside 3 / First Light (8:37)
- The Road to the North / Clennel Street / The Franklin River (8:37)
- The Air for Maurice Ogg / Jumping Jack (5:18)
- Green Ginger (3:06)
- The Ironbridge / Eynhallow (7:11)
- In Trim / Mount Hooley / Lemington Bank (3:25)
- The Kestral / High Force / Dog Leaps Stairs / Hot Rivets / The Seven Gate Road (7:16)
- When the Frosts Are Setting In (1:37)
- East Winds / The Millstream / Centenary Pack (7:25)
Credits
- Alistair Anderson - primary artist, concertina, written-by
- Martin Dunn - flute, whistle, piccolo flute