David Wiffen

Product Description:
Reissue of the Canadian folk singer's 1971 debut originally released on Fanatasy. A cult figure due to TV appearances & for working with Joni Mitchell & Bruce Cockburn. Featuring contributions from Ed Bogas, the composer of the 'Fritz the Cat' & 'Heavy Traffic' soundtracks, & Bernard Krause. Gatefold sleeve.

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Average customer rating: Somewhere To The South

David Wiffen David Wiffen Manufacturer: Akarma Italy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004TDWH Release Date: 2001-07-31

Tracks:

1. One Step
2. Never Make A Dollar That Way
3. I've Got My Ticket
4. What A Lot Of Woman
5. Since I Fell For You
6. Driving Wheel
7. Mr Wiffen
8. Blues Was The Name Of The Song
9. Mention My Name In Passing
10. More Often Than Not

Album Description

Reissue of the Canadian folk singer's 1971 debut originally released on Fanatasy. A cult figure due to TV appearances & for working with Joni Mitchell & Bruce Cockburn. Featuring contributions from Ed Bogas, the composer of the 'Fritz the Cat' & 'Heavy Traffic' soundtracks, & Bernard Krause. Gatefold sleeve.

Customer Reviews:

Somewhere To The South.......2004-08-25

David Wiffen's recorded career is minimal, to say the least. This disc was a bit of a rarity soon after its release, and its sombre-voiced author, despite the support of the more ambitious, Bruce Cockburn, never took off. The songs are pleasant, rather world-weary and resigned. I doubt anyone, fellow Canadian troubadour, Joni Mitchell included, have written more extensively on the plight of the travelling muso, and its inherent dangers. His second offering, 'Coast To Coast', is a superior effort in every way; more at ease with itself and a production that suits Wiffen's ennui. But the good news is that True North, in Canada, got Wiffen back in the studio, 1999, to record again. And if you're like me and your Wiffen discs are a little the worse for wear, the best of those to early 70s discs have been given an update by the weary one. The desperate edge is no longer in the baritone depths, but the handful of fresh compositions, eg.'Harlequin', are the equal of his 70s stuff. Whatever the reasons for the quarter century absence from the recording studio, this is a most welcome return to form. You can only get this from Canada, so far as I know and it took 3 months to reach this somewhere, far South ( a few more kilometers than Wiffen would've conceived!).

Average customer rating:

David Wiffen David Wiffen Manufacturer: Akarma ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002B6HR2 Release Date: 2001-10-25

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