The Marshall Plan
Available from 1st March 2007
18 tracks (63 mins):
Nightmares
Sharp as a knife (death)
Discovery/Smile
The Fountain of Life
Creativity
Should I or Shouldn't I?
The Year to Beat Bush
Stepping out of Line
My Daddy Ran Out of Juice
Why do you walk alone little girl...?
Who we could have been
Death
Its not just the same/Sharing Pain/Coffee and Cake
The Wedding
It could have been anyone, but it was you
The Poem which longs to be written
House cleaning
Mary Macmaster: Voice, Camac electro harp, Camac knee harp, clarsach by Jack Morgan.
Caroline Ross: Voice.
John Kenny: Voice, tenor & bass trombones, didgeridoo, recorders, occarinas, percussion.
Gerry Hunt: Bass guitar, soprano saxophone, flute, fiddle, acoustic guitar.
Chick Lyall: Piano & synthesiser.
Peter Vilk: Drums & percussion
With special guest: Grantly Marshall, narrator.
About this CD
Grantly Marshall
I had known Grantly Marshall for many years as a dynamic and imaginative theatre producer before I discovered his alter ego as a poet. Until 1999 I would have described him as an adventurous entrepreneur with a passion for theatre, repeatedly taking hair raising risks to market contemporary music theatre at an international level. His enduring success in this notoriously cut-throat world betokens a gambler’s iron nerve coupled with the hardest of hard business noses - so when I received a volume of Grantly’s poems just in time for Christmas 1999, I was genuinely surprised: here was an entirely new and unsuspected side of a friend that I thought I knew reasonably well – and yet it suddenly explained so much that I had observed yet not fathomed, in particular his attitudes to creativity, and to his own native America. I have received a new volume in my Christmas post every year since, and it didn’t take long for Grantly and I to fall to talking about the relationship of music and poetry. This album is the fruit of those discussions.
John Kenny
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