Whinchat pay tribute to some great songs from others.
These recordings are of the songs we’ve always admired and wanted to record. It’s a Whinchat salute to some great material.
All songs performed by Chris Kemp, Bernie Catterall, Fairlie Ryan and Mary Kemp
with additional guitar from Dave Phillips and drums from Laurence ‘Faz’ Faragher.
To listen to the songs, just press the play button. To download the tracks, right click the 'download' button, select 'save link as.......' and save to wherever you want (it defaults to your 'downloads' folder). Note that if you're listening on an iPod or iPad this is a Flash-driven music player so you won't see the 'Play' buttons. But if you press the download button you'll then see a player and you can listen from there - it won't download but you can do that once you're back at you main Mac, then do the usual things via iTunes.
- Download the entire Between the Covers album on the link below in one click. That way you get the songs in the order we intended them to be listened to
- It's a big file - nearly 56Mb - so be patient.
Download Name Play Size Length 
Between the Covers
55.8 MB 40:36 min Joomla! web design...
- Hat Trick (Peek, Beckley and Bunnel) - Click here for lyrics
The original song was almost a throwaway on an early ‘America’ LP even though it was the title track. We’ve always thought it was far, far better than that. Not really sure what some of it’s about, though! We went to see them in 2009. Terrific (but they didn’t play this).
Download Name Play Size Length
Hat Trick
Whinchat
12.4 MB 9:00 min Joomla! web design... - Desperado (Henley & Frey) - Click here for lyrics
Bernie on piano and lead vocal. Chris providing the ‘not on the original’ backing vocal. This beautiful Eagles standard has been on the ‘must do’ list since we first heard it.
Download Name Play Size Length
Desperado
Whinchat
5.2 MB 3:47 min Joomla! web design... - Wild Mountain Thyme (Trad Scottish) - Click here for lyrics
This one was a standard in all Whinchat sets from the start. A traditional folk song originally brought back to life by the Byrds but given the authentic Whinchat vocal treatment here.
Download Name Play Size Length
Wild Mountain Thyme
Whinchat
3.4 MB 2:29 min Joomla! web design... - Fields Of Gold (Sumner) - Click here for lyrics
A truly beautiful Sting song sung by Fairlie in the Cassidy mould but with everyone else adding the harmonies that surely should have been there if only someone had thought of it before.
Download Name Play Size Length
Fields Of Gold
Whinchat
6.6 MB 4:49 min Joomla! web design... - Layla (Eric Clapton) - Click here for lyrics
This is about as unlikely a song as you’d expect Whinchat to do. But here’s a piano-based version. Bernie plays and sings lead whilst Mary and Fairlie play at being backing singers. Chris, of course, does all the fiddly bits.
Download Name Play Size Length
Layla
Whinchat
6.3 MB 4:36 min Joomla! web design... - The Long And Winding Road (Lennon & McCartney) - Click here for lyrics
The first in Chris’s ‘Beatles project’. Chris on everything - including vocals. And if you’re wondering why, it was always an ambition of his to produce, from scratch, a complete recording of a Beatles classic – duly done.
Download Name Play Size Length
The Long And Winding Road
Whinchat
3.3 MB 2:24 min Joomla! web design... - Simple Man (Graham Nash) - Click here for lyrics
As soon as we heard this years ago it was a song we wanted to do – we just never got round to it. Now we have. Graham Nash at his simple best.
Download Name Play Size Length
Simple Man
Whinchat
3.4 MB 2:27 min Joomla! web design... - Songbird (Christine McVie) - Click here for lyrics
Mary takes a rare plaintive lead whilst Fairlie alone provides the back up. Bernie and Chris play the rest.
Download Name Play Size Length
Songbird
Whinchat
4.6 MB 3:20 min Joomla! web design... - Something In The Way She Moves (Taylor) - Click here for lyrics
Straightforwardly, the James Taylor classic given the Whinchat treatment. Part of any Whinchat set right from the start.
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Something In The Way She Moves
Whinchat
4.5 MB 3:17 min Joomla! web design... - Penny Lane (Lennon & McCartney) - Click here for lyrics
The second in Chris’s own private ‘Beatles project’. It’s no surprise that Chris has always been an avid McCartney fan is it? Once again – all done by Chris.
Download Name Play Size Length
Penny Lane
Whinchat
4.2 MB 3:03 min Joomla! web design... - Weep, O Mine Eyes (John Bennet) - Click here for lyrics
A four-part 16th Century Madrigal. Nothing like anything else we’ve done. Great fun, though very challenging, to sing. First published in 1599 so far as we can discover. Very different.
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Weep O Mine Eyes
Whinchat
3.2 MB 2:18 min Joomla! web design... - Among The Birks (Gallagher & Lyle) - Click here for lyrics
The Birks is a wood near Crieff in Perthshire which, completely co-incidentally, is the town where Fairlie’s mother was born. This beautiful Gallagher & Lyle song is from an almost forgotten early recording of theirs. Anyone know whether the lyrics are right? Incidentally, the birdsong really is mostly a real Whinchat. We have no idea whether they’re native to Perthshire or not – but who cares?
Download Name Play Size Length
Among The Birks
Whinchat
4.5 MB 3:16 min Joomla! web design...
Thanks – enjoy it.
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