1.  Hat Trick (Peek, Beckley and Bunnel)
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!
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2.  Desperado (Henley & Frey)
Bernie on piano and lead vocal. Chris providing the backing vocal.  This beautiful Eagles standard has been on the ‘must do’ list since we first heard it.
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3.  Wild Mountain Thyme (Trad Scottish)
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 and definitive Whinchat vocal treatment here.
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4.  Fields of Gold (Sumner)
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.
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5.  Layla (Eric Clapton)
This is about as unlikely a song as you’d expect Whinchat to do.  But here’s a piano & guitar version.  Bernie plays and sings lead whilst Mary and Fairlie play at being backing singers.  Chris, of course, does all the fiddly bits.
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6.  The Long & Winding Road (Lennon & McCartney)
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.
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7.  Simple Man (Graham Nash)
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.
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8.  Songbird (Christine McVie)
Mary takes a rare plaintive lead whilst Fairlie alone provides the back up.  Bernie and Chris play the rest.
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9.  Something in the Way She Moves (Taylor)
Straightforwardly, the James Taylor classic given the Whinchat treatment.  Part of any Whinchat set right from the start. 
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10.  Penny Lane (Lennon & McCartney)
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.
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11.  Weep, O Mine Eyes (John Bennet)
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.
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12.  Among The Birks (Gallagher & Lyle)
The Birks is a wood near Crieff in Perthshire which, 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?
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