Michael Chapman - Growing Pains Volume 1 & 2 (2020) CD-Rip

The enclosed copy of the booklet contains a detailed overview of the both records combined for this 2-CD reissue. Volume 1, which contains the tracks recorded between 1966 and 1980, was originally released in 2000, and Volume 2, which compiles recordings from 1969 to 1986, came out a year later. Since emerging from the folk scene in Yorkshire, England in 1967, guitarist, and singer Michael Chapman has gained a dual reputation as one of England’s finest original singer/songwriters and most restless guitar players, equally comfortable in folk, rock, free improvisation, global music styles, blues, and jazz. With over 40 albums to his credit, this former art and photography teacher has, in the 21st century, been embraced by a host of boundary-crossing younger musicians who credit his influence on their work including Thurston Moore, Steve Gunn, Ryley Walker, Meg Baird, and many more. No two albums in his catalog are alike, and, over different decades, certain recordings from his shelf have alternated as influential, beginning with his 1969 fingerpicking Brit folk classic Rainmaker and his 1970 singer/songwriter masterpiece Fully Qualified Survivor (featuring Mick Ronson on lead guitar). Later recordings, including 1976’s rock & roll outing Savage Amusement, his proto-new age 1987 offering Heartbeat, and his instrumental forays in the 21st century including the “guitar travelscapes” of Americana and Words Fail Me, as well as Pachyderm and The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock, showcase the full range of his playing, composing, and improvising styles.

Track List CD1 - Growing Pains Volume 1: 1966-1980 (2000)

01. Key to the Highway [2:28]
02. See See Rider [3:37]
03. Let Me Go Home Whiskey [3:39]
04. Parchman Farm [4:09]
05. Anniversary [4:02]
06. It Didn't Work Out [5:18]
07. Thank You P.K.1944 [5:33]
08. Daisy Bell/Naked Ladies & Electric Ragtime [4:47]
09. Reason to Believe [3:57]
10. Wrecked Again [4:50]
11. Rabbit Hills [3:52]
12. A Scholarly Man [14:37]
13. Here We Go Again [2:42]
14. Running for Cover [3:18]
15. Dangerous When Sober [2:56]
16. Lonely by the Mile [3:39]

Track List CD2 - Growing Pains Volume 2: 1969-1986 (2001)

01. Rockport Sunday [4:26]
02. Andru’s Easy Rider [2:59]
03. Indian Queens [4:55]
04. Not So Much a Garden (More Like a Maze) [6:25]
05. Time Enough to Square [4:35]
06. Devastation Hotel [7:38]
07. The Secret of the Locks [5:44]
08. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live [3:07]
09. Shuffle Boat River Farewell [5:25]
10. Catwalk 2 Parts I) Como II) Tussah III) Raw IV) Kashmir V) Bourette VI) Noile [30:18]