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01. NO RIGHT TURN - Roller Coaster
02. NO RIGHT TURN - Lawlands Away
03. NO RIGHT TURN - What Do You Do?
04. NO RIGHT TURN - Waves
05. NO RIGHT TURN - Losers Blues
06. NO RIGHT TURN - Drowsy Maggie/Ash Plant
07. NO RIGHT TURN - Lady of Pleasure
08. NO RIGHT TURN - Make It Easy
09. NO RIGHT TURN - The Gold Ring
10. NO RIGHT TURN - Summer Sways
11. NO RIGHT TURN - Bushes and Briars
12. NO RIGHT TURN - A Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick
ARTIST
TITLE
No Right Turn
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1115CD EM 1115CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/26/2013

No Right Turn was a Derbyshire band, and befitting a group from the center of Britain, they combined elements of folk music from all across the United Kingdom. Beginning as an acoustic trio, but with the addition of a fine bass and drums rhythm section and the clarion vocals of the late Jayne Marsden (who became Jayne Cooper when she married the band's bassist Andy Cooper), they began to expand their sound, bringing in progressive rock elements and combining extremely catchy vocal tunes with tastefully virtuosic instrumentals. After a period of development and refinement through live performance, their self-titled first album was recorded in 1982-1983 in the studio of Fairport Convention's Dave Pegg, Woodworm Studios, with engineer Mark Powell capturing the well-rehearsed band's energy and freshness in a minimum of takes and adding some decidedly un-folk synthesizer in spots. Despite the band's evident musical prowess and the appearance of a number of fine instrumental tracks on the album, with some surprisingly fleet and crunchy playing from electric bassist Cooper, it is the pure, beautiful, often double-tracked voice of Jayne Marsden that allows No Right Turn to rise above being merely a local band. Fans of great folk singers like Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs will find much to love here. All good folk music is about life, and it was life and the pressures and desires thereof which conspired to drive this incarnation of the band apart soon after the record's release, although the band continued to play and record and some of these later songs are presented here as bonus tracks. Life aplenty is what the listener will find here -- all the joy and sadness, the beauty and mystery and love. Includes a 20-page booklet.