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A Touch of Class


This a recording of a live performance given at the Grassington Festival in 1998. In addition to Chris and Linda, it features Paul Burgess on Drums, Derek Nash on Sax, Lee Abbot on Base, Darrel Waring on Shaker, and Ian Stewart on Mouthharp.
The CD was released in 1999 by HTD Records (catalogue number HTDCD98), and was re-released in 2001 by Talking Elephants Records as A Touch of Class in a 2 CD set with Evergreen, a recording of another concert recorded at the Grassington Festival in 1999.

Track List
Disk 1
⋅ Highway to Spain
⋅ Got my Eyes on You
⋅ Fooled by a Promise
⋅ Wind on the Water
⋅ Two Old Friends
⋅ Elizabethan
⋅ One Man’s Heaven
⋅ Song for Gaza (1)
⋅ Ticket to the Moon
⋅ Ulysses
⋅ Blues for a Long Road Home
⋅ Banjo Man
⋅ Terminal Case of You (2)
⋅ Seasons in the Tide
⋅ Magnolia (3)

Disk 2
⋅ Sea and Sand
⋅ Spring Poem
⋅ Airport Song
⋅ Time for the Leaving
⋅ Sun Ain’t Gonna Rise
⋅ Soliquay #1
⋅ Putting it Back Together
⋅ Took a long Time (4)
⋅ Tomorrow is a Long Time (5)
⋅ Summer Poem Chris Simpson
⋅ Wind on the Water
⋅ San Francisco Bay Blues (5)
⋅ Feel my Love (5)
⋅ Wild Geese
⋅ Evergreen
⋅ Autumn Song
⋅ Only Road Home
⋅ Soliquay #2
⋅ Midnight Again
⋅ Slow train to Nowhere

All songs written by Chris Simpson, except:
(1) Traditional
(2) Chris and Linda Simpson
(3) J.J.Cale
(4) Tom Hoy and Chris Simpson
(5) Bob Dylan