Grinning In Your Face (album)

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Grinning In Your Face
Studio album by Martin Simpson
Released 1983
Genre Folk
Producer(s) Topic Records
Martin Simpson chronology
Special Agent
(1981)
Grinning In Your Face
(1983)
Sad or High Kicking
(1985)


Grinning In Your Face is a folk album by Martin Simpson recorded and released in 1983.

Recorded and produced at Ideal Sound Recorders, London by Tony Engle. Originally issued by Topic Records in the UK, catalogue number 12TS430.

It includes a mixture of contemporary and traditional pieces.

[edit] Track Listing

  1. It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Anka)
  2. Little Birdie (trad arr. Simpson)
  3. The First Cut Is The Deepest (Stephens)
  4. Roving Gambler (trad arr. Simpson)
  5. This War May Last For Years (trad arr. Simpson)
  6. Masters Of War (Dylan)
  7. Reuben's Train (trad arr. Simpson)
  8. Your Cheatin' Heart (Williams)
  9. Handsome Molly (trad arr. Simpson)
  10. Townships (Simpson)/ Biko (Gabriel)
  11. Moonshine (Simpson)
  12. Green Linnet (trad arr. Simpson)/ Grinning In Your Face (Son House)

[edit] Personnel

  • Martin Simpson - vocals, acoustic guitar, lap steel, dobro, banjo

with

  • Bob Smith - drums
  • Annette Costello - backing vocals