Lindisfarne
The Alternate Fog On The Tyne
Live and Studio Sessions
1971-2021
50 Years Anniversary
Artwork Included
Quality A
Time:33 Minutes.

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At the time of writing,there are 54 versions of this classic album.And here's one more.
By the way tracks 1,3,5,6,7,8 and 9 and have not been shared before.


1. Meet Me On The Corner (Live 1976-12-22)
2. Alright On The Night (Live 1972-11-28)
3. Uncle Sam (Early Take No Vocal)
4. Together Forever (Live 1972-11-28)
5. January Song (Guitar Solo Version)
6. Peter Brophy Don't Care (Live July 2003 Unplugged Version)
7. City Song (Live July 2003 Unplugged Version)
8. Passing Ghosts (Vocal Tracking Session)
9. Train In G Major (Slide Guitar Tracking Session)
10. Fog On The Tyne (Live 1972-11-04)
Bonus Tracks
11. Scotch Mist (Live 1972-11-28)
12. No Time To Lose (Live 1972-11-28)

1972-11-04 University Of Virginia Charlottesville VA US. Radio Broadcast
1972-11-28 Ultrasonic Studios,New York.United States.Radio Broadcast *
*All Tracks Remastered for 2022 50 Years Anniversary Edition.
1976-12-22 Newcastle City Hall UK. Soundboard Recording.
2003-July The Riverdale Bellingham Northumberland UK.Soundboard Recording.

LINDISFARNE was:
RAY JACKSON - Lead Vocals, Mandolin and Harmonica
ALAN HULL - Lead Vocals, Acoustic, 12-String and Electric Guitars and Keyboards
SIMON COWE - Acoustic, 12-String and Electric Guitars, Mandolin and Backing Vocals
ROD CLEMENTS - Bass, Acoustic, 12-String and Electric Guitars and Violin
RAY LAIDLAW - Drums and Percussion

Tracks 6 and 7
ROD CLEMENTS – Dobro,Mandolin,Vocal
DAVE HULL-DENHOLM – Six & Twelve String Guitars,Harp,Vocal
BILLY MITCHELL – Six & Twelve String Guitars,Mandolin,Harp,Vocal


Ray Laidlaw remembers Bob Johnston (From The Evening Chronicle 2015)


“He was enigmatic. None of us had really met a proper American, high flying music personality. We’d met the lawyers and that, but they were just bloody lawyers. We’d been to the States a couple of times, but for him to be working with us in England was a really big deal.”

Lindisfarne travelled down to Trident Studios in London to record what would become Fog On The Tyne in the summer of 1971.

“We’d been away and rehearsed - rehearsing what we thought was going to be the album, and the first day in the studio, we played it for him (Bob) and he said ‘Great. What else you got?’

“I remember thinking ‘bloody hell, he doesn’t like it’. But it wasn’t that, he wanted to hear every song we had.

“So we spent the whole first day playing him everything. Every song, every half song, every bit of a song. I think the final album ended up being half of what we had planned and half of the stuff Bob had picked out from what we played him.

“That was his job. He wasn’t a Phil Spector. He wasn’t a control freak. He’d encourage and prod you. He let us be ourselves... his role was more of an editing process.

“When you look back at our first album now, it’s a bit like a sampler with loads of different styles on. Bob realised that for people to get us - especially in America - we had to have more of a streamlined style.

“And him coming from the country and folk side of things, he took away all the extraneous stuff and stripped it down to the basics. That was his gift to us. He focused on what we were good at got us to play to our strengths.”

When it was released, Fog On The Tyne, which, as well as its eponymous anthem also included the hit single, Meet Me On The Corner, topped the charts in early 1972.

“That album made all the difference,” said Ray. “It was enormous. Everybody had it and Bob had a big influence on how it ended up being. I found out just recently that Fog On The Tyne was the most successful independent production that he ever did. He did lots of other successful stuff too, but nothing which had the same level of success as he had with us.”

Fog.
This bittersweet celebration of life on the dole in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne was written by Alan Hull, the lead singer of Tyneside folk rockers Lindisfarne. He originally performed it during his solo folk club shows.

When Lindisfarne learned they would be working on their second album with Bob Dylan producer Bob Johnston, they were delighted. However this rousing number was originally not intended for the record. During recording, that band played a date at the Royal Festival Hall, at which they performed "Fog." "It went down a storm at the Festival Hall," drummer Ray Laidlaw recalled to Uncut magazine, "and when we came back, Bob said, 'How come you haven't played me that?' We said, 'We don't think much of it...' It wouldn't have been on the album if it hadn't been for him."
Uncut Magazine.

The song not only became the title track of Lindisfarne's breakthrough album in England, it also became the band's signature tune.

After the massive impact of their second album, Lindisfarne teamed up with Bob again for their next long player, Dingly Dell, released in September 1972.

“By then we wanted to be a bit more ambitious. So the first three songs were all segued together,” says Ray. “There was some strings and stuff on too.


“We’d actually recorded Dingly Dell for Fog on the Tyne, but it didn’t fit, so we kept that one back and used it as the title track for the next album.”
Evening Chronicle.

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