Mark Tindle was an enthusiast for many styles of music, embracing with equal aplomb English and Celtic folk music, American bluegrass and Old Timey, comic songs in the music hall tradition and rock & roll. For a long time a good guitarist and 5-string banjo player, in recent years he devoted time and energy to learning the fiddle. Typically, he sought the company of the best players he could find, eager to learn as much as he could from those he admired.    Not so long ago Mark brought these various music interests together in his emerging talent as a songwriter. His songs reflect his great sense of humour but also his deeper thoughts about the ways of the world. It is our great loss that these songs comprise those on his only CD, Made Up Songs plus four of the songs on this CD:     Enthusiasm’ spans 20 years of Mark’s musical achievements. Midnight Moonlight and Route 66 were recorded in 1985 by his band The Last Detail. The most recent songs are his own Cold, Cold War and Lenin in the Chip Shop which have been arranged around his solo home recordings. In between are tracks by Five Go Off (of which Mark was a founder member way back in 1978), and more of Mark’s own songs Nottingham Roughneck and Bill Monroe - which he intended to take around the DJs on local radio stations on a USA visit. The CD also features fine examples of some of Mark’s favourite music with the Leen Valley Boys..    download the album for £5-50     Nottingham Roughneck Mark & Friends Midnight On The Highway Leen Valley Boys Calling Your Name Leen Valley Boys Airfix Boys Five Go Off Clerk Saunders Five Go Off Bill Monroe  Mark & Friends Cumberland Gap Five Go Off Isle Of St Helena Five Go Off Back Book Five Go Off Lenin In The Chip Shop Mark & Friends Cold, Cold War  Mark & Friends Midnight Moonlight The last detail Route 66 The last detail Tracks Of My Tears Five Go Off They Don't Know About Us Five Go Off Silver Dew On The Blue Grass Leen Valley Boys Sitting on Top of the World Leen Valley Boys Spancil Hill  Five Go Off Step It Out Mary Five Go Off Little Pot Stove Five Go Off On these recordings: The Leen Valley Boys are Mark Tindle, Pete Christian, Mike Wareham and Adam Newman-Turner. Five Go Off are Mark Tindle, Ed Marchewicz, Denny Plowman, Steve Bailey, Al Harris (Tracks 4, 5, 7, 15, 18,20), Mark Walker (Tracks 8, 9, 19), Trevor Bailey (Tracks 4, 5, 8, 9, 15,18, 19), Jim Miller (Tracks 7, 14, 20), Edward Hutchby (Track 7) The Last Detail are Mark Tindle, Robin Bailey, & Pete Christian ‘Friends’ are Steve Bailey (Tracks 1, 6, 10, 11) Al Harris (Tracks 10, 11), Pete Christian (Track 1) & Dave Proctor (Tracks 1, 6)   Special thanks to Andy Terry for the Five Go Off & Last Detail recordings.   The Leen Valley Boys and ‘ Mark & Friends’ tracks were recorded and produced by Steve Bailey at Clearjar, except tracks 3 & 16 which were recorded live at The Plough, Radford, Nottingham. [clearjar downloads] [albums] [six hands in tempo] [five go off] [waffal] [dave walker] [leen valley band] [leen valley boys] [mark tindle] [made up songs] [enthusiasm] [marks other songs] [harry walton quintet +1] [notes] [other links]

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