Songs From A Taxi, by Martin Ansell

Songs From A Taxi

by Martin Ansell

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1.	Card With Kind Words 02:37		buy track
2.	Java Jive 02:48	info	buy track
3.	Streets and Avenues 03:54		buy track
4.	What Became Of Me 03:35	info	buy track
5.	God's Little Joke 03:20	info	buy track
6.	Fireworks 03:58	info	buy track
7.	Infinity's Swimming Pool 03:42	info	buy track
8.	Jackie Has A Barber Shop 02:15	info	buy track
9.	Day Centre 03:23	info	buy track
10.	My Brother Was A Meccano Kid 03:18	info	buy track
11.	Polar Bears 04:35	info	buy track
12.	Ted and Nora 05:04	info	buy track
13.	Sheep Market Hill 01:49	info	buy track
14.	Blue Skies Over Battersea 03:58	info	buy track
15.	Everybody Says Hello 03:10	lyrics	buy track
© Martin Ansell, guitar, vocals
16.	Farmers' Country 02:59	info	buy track
17.	The Old Bridge 04:02	info	buy track
18.	English Rain 03:12	info	buy track

about

A new album of live recordings from inside his taxi cab,
microphone over the steering wheel, guitar in lap on front
seat - any noises from outside welcome to join in the
performance. "It's taken all my life to feel confident
enough to make a record this way, but it feels right now.
Acoustic guitar is the thing for me! Always has been,
always will be. If you listen to James Taylor picking
'You've Got A Friend' or John Lennon strumming on
his 12 string on 'Hide Your Love Away' and your heart
swells then you know what I'm talking about.

From my bedroom days in Gillingham, Kent through
the 1960s to the years of living in London in the 80s,
I always composed songs on my acoustic guitar -
though the music business sent me off course for a
while. I have to admit I enjoyed the ride.

By the time my album 'The Englishman Abroad' was
released on Island in 1986 my acoustic roots had been
all buried in the fashionable electronic production of
the times.

Chris Blackwell signed me to his prestigious label, and
with a nice little advance, who was I to complain?
Surrounded by older wiser men I was eager to please
and with the successes that my producer Rupert Hine
had had, everything was going to work out fine.

Unfortunately it didn't - a mixture of personnel changes
and internal disruption caused my album to be one of
many casualties in the mid 80s. In a way, though, its
lack of success did me a favour because I didn't become
a "pop star" and now I am back writing, playing and
performing how I like best - acoustic guitar and voice -
or with Debbie Cassell in our duo 'Woman Wants Tall
Man - two acoustic guitars and two voices!!

Now I'm living the quiet life in Dorset, dividing my time
between music and driving a taxi and I've discovered I
can make quite nice recordings in the cab with my
minidisc, draping the microphone over the steering
wheel - all I need is to do a reasonable performance
and if the song's good enough…well, maybe that's for
you to decide, not me.

I'm building a little catalogue of 'Songs From A Taxi'
so I can dip into it if I ever feel I need to rediscover
something I've forgotten or overlooked… hopefully,
people might like some of it, too."

Martin Ansell

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released March 2, 2012

Martin Ansell, acoustic guitar and vocals

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