David Stevenson – Unfinished Lace:

1. Blood Red Moon 4:46 – a song about Robert Johnson who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at a midnight crossroads and thus became the father of the blues. I think he just went away and practised a lot.

2. Getting Here is Easy 4:24 – the first and hopefully the last song to be inspired by the strapline on a Huntingdon District Council tourism leaflet

3. Waiting for the Weather 5:50 – written for a friend who lives on top of one of the few hills in Cambs (i.e. about 20 metres), where you can watch the weather come towards you and wait for it to change

4. What Shall We Drink to Tonight? – a bit of fun. An anti-drinking drinking song…

5. Turning of the Tide: 2:01 – the end of a relationship.

The Great War Trilogy:

6. Stille Nacht 6:35 – the first Christmas on the western front saw unofficial fraternisation between the British and Germans. This is how one Tommy experienced it

7. The Girls with Yellow Hands 5:29 – a song about the women who worked in the munitions factories. The chemicals turned their skin yellow and made them sterile. Casualties were as high as on the western front

8. Unfinished Lace 5:06 – all based on buying a second-hand book of poems which contained a perfect piece of white lace and the inscription “To my Dearest Jane, Respectfully William, May 1916”

9. Berry Head 2:53 – a tune about a favourite place in Devob

10.From Detroit to Dallas 3:57 – what happens when you take a wrong turning in the US and end up in a very bad place

11.The Last of England 8:22 – inspired by Ford Madox Brown’s painting of the same name about emigration from England in the 1840’s

12. Parting is the Hardest Thing 4:39 – a song about leaving, coming back, leaving, coming back, leaving……

David Stevenson, guitar and vocal

All songs p & c David Stevenson © Dadsongs 2005

Recorded brilliantly and with great patience by Brian Bedford at Park Head Studios, Birdsedge, Huddersfield