martin stirrup
The Album That Never Was (Archive 2003-Remix 2025)
Phase 1 material from 1968 -1976, originally recorded in 2002 (with some analogue recordings from the 70s). Cleaned up and remixed 2025
Release date: August 2025
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TATNW 01 Just Another Day (Archive 1973)
A gentle acoustic love song from the archives
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4:19
2
TATNW 02 Taking My Time (Archive 1973)
An upbeat acoustic number
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3:45
3
TATNW 03 Free (Archive 1970)
A finger-picked guitar folk song
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3:56
4
TATNW 04 Five Minutes Early (Archive 1970)
A gentle folk love song from the folk club days (1970) featurig Roger Brawn on lead guitar
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3:40
5
TATNW 05 Only For Me (Archive 1970)
A fingerpicked song in open (DADGAD) tuning with some organ backing.
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5:21
6
TATNW 06 Christine (Archive 1968)
A fingerpicked folk ballad
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5:35
7
TATNW 07 Something Happens (Archive 1976)
A bluesy love song?
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4:15
8
TATNW 08 Look At Me Now (Archive 1973)
A remixed (retweaked and cleaned up) 70s overdubbed analogue recording
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3:30
9
TATNW 09 No Way To Drive (Archive 1976)
Bluesy rock?
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3:33
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TATNW 10 Green Sky Blues (Archive 1970)
A Cohenesque folk ballad of reconciliation
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4:20
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TATNW 11 Open Blues (Archive 1971)
This started of with just a guitar in open tuning but I filled it out a bit when I first recorded it digitally in 2003 - now retweaked and reworked a bit but mostly using those original recordings.
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4:20
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TATNW 12 Celandine (Archive 1970)
A mournful folk song
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3:24
13
TATNW 13 When I Was Small (Archive 1971)
A song of (basically truthful) childhood reminiscences, 3 verses with three quite separate melodic sections in each verse.
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2:44
14
TATNW 14 Words (Archive 1971)
Sort of the Incredible String Band meets The Who...? An retweaked 70s analogue recording..
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2:51
15
TAYNW 15 Unless It's To Dream (Archive 1972)
A picked folk song with some string accompaniment.
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3:13
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TATNW 16 Cold Morning Dream (Archive 1969)
A finger-picked folk song with some accompaniment
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3:56
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TATNW 17 Sunday Night (Archive 1972)
An archive analogue tape overdub recording from the early 70s with a few tweaks to rebalance things..
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4:14
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TATNW 18 You'll Never Be Alone (Archive 1969)
Starts off folky, goes weird then rocks out...
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5:08
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TATNW 19 She Smiles (archive)
Pop rock? A re-tweaking of an analogue overdub recording from the 70s
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4:07
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TATNW 20 Twiddlytune (2002)
A little acoustic guitar instrumental
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2:47
