Track listing

  1. Congleton Bear
  2. Beatrice Hills Untitled
  3. Gallons of Brandy
  4. Cottage In The Wood
  5. The Lady All Skin And Bone
  6. The Bone Lace Weavers Song
  7. Travellers Joy
  8. Come Away, Death
  9. Death And The Lady
  10. Lace Tells
  11. Cattern Day Tells
  12. L’P’tit QuinQuin
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Needle Pin, Needle Pin

‘Needle Pin, Needle Pin’ is very much a homespun album, recorded as live during the first weeks of January 2020. Oates and Spiers first started playing together during spontaneous guest spots at Nettlebed Folk Club. They began playing extended sets and working on material from their native Oxfordshire, including the ‘Lace Tells’ that form Jackie’s radio ballad ‘The Lacemakers – the Lost Art Of Telling’. The album features tunes and songs from the Oxfordshire area, and comes as a limited edition, handstamped, hand made album.

Press

‘It’s a treat to listen to, with joyful pieces like Congleton Bear and a brandy-based pair of slip jigs particularly full of sunshine. Oates and Spiers are a fine match, the tunes elegantly paced and played, while Oates remains one of our finest singers’.
Mark Dishman, Folk Witness

‘Needle Pin, Needle Pin packs a great amount of variety into its 36 minutes, with the three musicians bringing the source material to life, in an unflashy yet well crafted manner. The result is a highly listenable collection of music that belongs on present day folk fans’ CD players as much as it does in a museum’.
Bright Young Folk