Dancing Days (album)
# Dancing Days (album)

Dancing Days is an album by Chris Leslie, released in 2004.

Compared to Chris Leslie's earlier album The Flow, this is much more of a recognisable instrumental folk-rock effort. Occasionally Chris drifts off into a reverie that sounds like a monastery in Tibet, but this is less obvious than before. He gives a sprightly performance of many morris dance tunes, then adds the oriental effects as a variation at the end of some tracks, punctuated by finger cymbals.

## Track listing

* "Flowers of Edinburgh/ Old Tom of Oxford" (Traditional)
* "Laudnum Bunches (Headington)/ Orange In Bloom (Sherbourne)/ Banks of the Dee (Longborough)" (Traditional / Traditional/ Traditional)
* "Bower Processional (Lichfield)" (Traditional)
* "Princess Royal (Adderbury)/ Speed The Plough (Bampton)" (Traditional)
* "Old Marlborough (Fieldtown)" (Traditional)
* "The Dancer (song)" (Chris Leslie)
* "Jockey to the Fair (Adderbury)/ Double Jig (Bampton)" (Traditional/ Traditional)
* "Lumps of Plum Pudding (Bledington)/ Bean Setting (Headington)/ Bobbing a Joe (Wheatley)" (Traditional/ Traditional/ Traditional)
* "Sweet Jenny Jones (Adderbury) / Brighton Camp (Adderbury)/ Beaux of London City (Adderbury/ Badby)" (Traditional)
* "Stourton Wake and Jig (Adderbury)" (Traditional)
* "Haste to the Wedding (Adderbury) / Bluebells of Scotland (Adderbury) / Shepherd's Away (Adderbury)" (Traditional/ Traditional/ Traditional)
* "Bumpus O' Stretton (Ilmington)" (Traditional)
* "Janet Blunt Poem" (song) (words: Janet Blunt; tune: "Jamaica")
* "Morning Star (Bledington)/ Getting Upstairs (Headington)/ Wheatley Processional (Wheatley)" (Traditional/ Traditional/ Traditional)
* "A Secret" (medley *) (Traditional)

(* uncredited medley: Shepherd's Hey/ Bluebells of Scotland/ Brighton Camp/ sound of church bells/ Happy the Man (song))

## Personnel

* Chris Leslie - violins, percussion, bouzouki, mandolin, native American flute, kalimba, tingshaws, Tibetan singing bowls
* Simon Nicol - acoustic guitar
* Dave Pegg - bass
* Gerry Conway - percussion, congas
* Mat Green - violin
* Ric Sanders - violin
* Mikey Radford - dance
* Ashley Hutchings - bass
