Jack Lancaster - 1980 - Skinningrove Bay

Jack Lancaster 

1980 

Skinningrove Bay

01. North Country Girl

02. Carlin How

03. Old Man Of The Ocean

04. Kilten Castle

05. Skinningrove Bay Part 1

06. Skinningrove Bay Part 2

07. Save A Place For Me

08. Deep Green

9. The Abbess St. Hilda

Reissued on cd and lp in 1987 as

Phil Collins-Gary Moore-Rod Argent

Wild Connections

01. Save A Place For Me

02. Deep Green

03. Carlin How

04. Old Man Of The Ocean

05. Skinningrove Bay (Part One)

06. Skinningrove Bay (Part Two)

07. North Country Girl

08. Kilten Castle

09. The Abbess St. Hilda

With the same track order as above it was released again in 1991 as Varios Artists with same album name, later again in 1999 as Various "The Skinningrove Bay Studio Sessions" and finally in 2007 again with the original name on cd

Jack Lancaster - Sax, lyricon, flute, keyboards, vocals

Phil Collins - vocals

Perry - bass, vocals

Clive Bunker - drums

Bernie Frost - vocals

Hughie Burns - guitar

Mick Rogers - guitar

Robin Lumley - keyboards

Rick Van Der Linden - keyboards

Session musician Jack Lancaster released his first solo album in 1981, the very beautiful Skinningrove Bay. The album has been reissued in several shapes (Some of them called by mistake "Wild Connections" but "Wild Connections" was in fact another album from Lancaster collaborating with Rick v.d. Linden) and this is the 1987 version as the first of a serie of reissues on Bold Reprive Records. I think they printed not many copies because you can't find anything on the web concerning this release on BRR (exept for the secret vault that is).

Skinningrove Bay is a fascinating, highly unique and beautiful suite of progressive Rock music with Celtic, Nordic, Jazz, Church and Pop influences. It deserves a place on the shelf of any discerning collector of Classic Rock Music. Skinningrove is a village with Viking origins on the coast of North East England, on the Cleveland Way. His songs explore his childhood memories in the area, and it’s ironstone mining and iron-making, and whaling industries.

Featuring a matchless group of artistes and musicians including such illustrious names as Phil Collins, Gary Moore, Rod Argent, Clive Bunker, Mick Rogers, and Robin Lumley.

'Skinningrove Bay' is a musical kaleidoscope of memories, observations, and wry comments as gleaned through the eyes of Jack Lancaster who lived a colourful youth amid the last Iron and Whaling communities of Whitby and Skinningrove Bay in the North East of England.

To tell his story, Jack, once a Blodwyn Pig, and now a notable solo artist and highly regarded session musician in his own right, gathered together a matchless group of artistes and musicians including such illustrious names as Phil Collins, Gary Moore, Rod Argent, Clive Bunker, Mick Rogers, and Robin Lumley, whose talents surely need not be referred to further.

This fusion of musical persuasions then set about giving birth to a series of cameo performances which offers a rare opportunity of not only hearing this assembly of talent performing together as a unit on this exceptional album, but an insight into playing, performances and even material that would not normally be associated with such giants of the Rock music genre.

'Skinningrove Bay' is a fascinating, highly unique and beautiful suite of progressive Rock music with Celtic, Nordic, Jazz, Church and Pop influences. It deserves a place on the shelf of any discerning collector of Classic Rock Music.