| Craig at Christmas
Release Date:2008Craig's new Christmas CD will be available at TN-Ren.
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| 20 Years of Sweet Delights
Release Date:2007After twenty years and seven albums, it's time for RETROSPECTION. 20 YEARS OF SWEET DELIGHTS, the first of Craig's new two-volume 'BEST OF' album, is rated PG, and includes fourteen of your favorite beautiful ballads from past projects by THE MINSTREL LUTENIST. Three new recordings complete the piece: Two beloved GOODBYE SONGS from BRISTOL RENAISSANCE FAIRE and the Celtic classic, "She moves through the fair." Get ready for LOVE.
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| 20 Years of Spicy Delights
Release Date:2007After twenty years and seven albums, it's time for RETROSPECTION. 20 YEARS OF SPICY DELIGHTS, the second of Craig's new, two-volume 'BEST OF' album, is rated R, and includes fifteen of your favorite bawdy ballads from past projects. Recordings of two new parodies complete the piece: A Gilbert & Sullivan treatment of BARTENDER BOBBB and the widely popular MADAM G, based on a song by Tim Henderson. Get ready to LAUGH!
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| Easy Being
Release Date:2005EASY BEING is (as you would expect) Craig's GREEN album. A two-disc project, one emphasizes the LOVING aspect of THE MINSTREL LUTENIST while the other steps way over the line, which is precisely in line with his LICENTIOUS alter ego. Released in July 2006 at Bristol Renaissance Faire, it can be purchased wherever CRAIG OF FARRINGTON can be found.
Preceded by a Moment of Silence (for all those who have died in the past few years in Iraq), a rare political song ends each disc. Pray for Peace.
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| A Rhyme for Orange
Release Date:2002Though he is best known as a romantic, The Minstrel Lutenist definitely has a bawdy side! People often hear him refer to this as his "Greatest Hits Album" ... but they misunderstand him--(He doesn't say "Hits.") Most of the compositions, and even more of the lyrics, come from the naughty minstrel's own pen. Exceptions are two little 18th-century gems from the Thomas D'Urfey collections, two traditional favorites, and a happy venture into the 20th century with "Breakfast Blues" (by Ronnie Levine) - Recorded LIVE in concert and featuring Craig Merlin Broers on upright jazz bass with inspired solos by guitarist friends Jerry Barry and Ty Billings (whose "scat" is not to be missed!) Craig of Farrington is a very funny fellow!
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| Naughty
Release Date:2001From the lusty, lascivious "Little Oyster Girl" to the passionate heat of "Gently Johnny," this albumn is definitely NOT for the kids! Mr. Merlinson's "Bawdy Beautiful" (1989) is revisited in its entirety. Sources include 'bookes of ayres' by 17th century English lutenist-songwriters (including several by Dr. Campion) and "Wit and Mirth - Pills to Purge Melancholy" a collection of lewd and licentious songs published in London by Mr. D'Urfey in the 1760's. Guest musicians include Minnesota friends David Rockne Stenshoel (violin) and Alan Gray (glass lampshade). This albumn contains all of the naughtiest selections from three albums Craig recorded in the 1980's and '90's. None of the twenty-three cuts has heretofore been offered on compact disk.
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