Grit (Martyn Bennett album)

Grit
Studio album by Martyn Bennett
Released 13 October 2003
Recorded 2003
Genre Celtic fusion
Length 51.29 Minutes
Label Real World Records
Producer Martyn Bennett
Martyn Bennett chronology
Glen Lyon
(2002)Glen Lyon2002		 Grit
(2003)		 Mackay's Memoirs
(2005)Mackay's Memoirs2005
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]

Grit is the last studio album by the Scottish Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released on 13 October 2003 on the Real World label.[2]

The album had been recorded while he was ill, and he was unable to play his instruments.[3] Bennett brought together samples of unaccompanied traditional Scottish folk singers, his own bagpipe and fiddle playing, with and electronic drum beats.[2][4]

For the opening track, Move he sampled a recording of traditional singer Sheila Stewart performing the Moving On Song, Ewan MacColl’s song about travellers; she was delighted that he was taking it to a new audience.[5] His song Liberation featured Michael Marra narrating an English translation of psalm 118. The album has been "credited with starting the musical evolution of Celtic fusion".[3]

The song "Blackbird" was used in the soundtrack for Danny MacAskill's 2014 film, The Ridge.[6]

Track listing

  1. "Move" – 4.10
  2. "Blackbird" – 6.10
  3. "Chanter" – 4.10
  4. "Nae Regrets" – 3.50
  5. "Liberation" – 4.20
  6. "Why" – 4.30
  7. "Ale House" – 3.50
  8. "Wedding" – 5.45
  9. "Rant" – 4.31
  10. "Storyteller" – 9.39

References

  1. ↑ Anderson, Rick. Grit at AllMusic
  2. 1 2 Gill, Andy (9 October 2003). "Album: Martyn Bennett. Grit. Real world". The Independent. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Remembering Martyn Bennett: The rebirth of Grit". BBC. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Brocklehurst, Steven (15 January 2015). "Martyn Bennett: 'Fearless' music legacy lives on". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Gilchrist, Jim (11 December 2014). "Obituary: Sheila Stewart MBE". The Scotsman. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  6. ↑ Swarbrick, Susan (4 October 2014). "TV: Virtuoso cyclist Danny MacAskill's Riding the Ridge". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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