Kitty Jay (album)
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| Studio album by Seth Lakeman | ||||
| Released | 2004 | |||
| Recorded | By Sean Lakeman in the Piano Kitchen, Horrabridge, Devon | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 36:40 | |||
| Label | iScream | |||
| Producer | Sean Lakeman and Seth Lakeman | |||
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Kitty Jay is a music album by Seth Lakeman published in 2004. It is his second album that he published as a principal performer. It was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize for 2005. "All of these songs have been written and inspired by stories and legends from Dartmoor" where Lakeman was brought up and still resides.
The inspiration for each track (with the exception of track 5) is briefly described in the programme notes.
John Lomas was a servant who fell in love with his mistress, and his passion for her leads him to murder.
This piece was inspired by a story that Mr Lakeman heard. It is about a knight lying injured upon a moor, not knowing what fate will befall upon him, until a girl arrives to save him, but she dies herself for that kind act.
A song about the battle to claim land when people began to emigrate to America.
This piece is about the servant girl, Kitty Jay, who killed herself on the moors. Her grave lies out of Ashburton towards Hound Tor, at a crossroads where fresh flowers lay. This piece was performed at the Mercury Music Prize.
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About suffering men who worked for weeks on end at a copper mine.
Henry Clark was a well loved shipbuider from Plymouth who suffered from a strange fate.
One of Mr Lakeman's stories that he was told, about a captain and his crew who sailed out of Plymouth Sound, and as night draws in a storm is brewing.
A mournful melody performed in a church (St Andrew's) in Buckland Monachorum.
About a couple who go for a walk one morning. The man returns alone, but the woman is never seen again.
Based on a traditional melody called "The Stream of Lovely Nancy".
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