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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    14 track CD featuring the first songs I'd recorded for more than 20 years. Cover art by Ben Wilson, the chewing gum painter. Featuring guest appearances by Lester Square (Monochrome Set), Dan Whitehouse (vocals), Paul Davey (sax), Paul Taylor (trombone), John Eacott (trumpet), Tash Bryant (cello), Jon Bond (cello), Allan Bradbury (cello), Spence Brown (double bass), Anja Hagge (accordion), and BJ Cole (pedal steel guitar). Recorded by Tom Greenwood. design by Emerald Moseley, photo by Mike Slocombe.

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A ancient tale revisited and uniquely worked with a Daliesque genius
Brilliant lyric!

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Temptation

This was the apple I gave him to eat, a lovely green apple so round and so sweet
He took a big bite and he yelped with a crack
For the worm in the apple had bitten him back

Oh who was the evilest one of the three, the man or the worm in the apple or me?
Did I know it was hiding neath crunchy green skin
Or was my back turned when the worm burrowed in

Temptation, the original sin, that one little bite caused it all to begin
Temptation, the original sin, they both wore no clothes when the worm burrowed in

Here comes the death man his hammer to blow
Cares he or cares she the plain person won't know
Turn away turn away put your fingers to face
Lay out on your body-nests and line them with lace

The bitter sweet taste of the blood on his tongue
Let this be a lesson to everyone
Before you commence on a gluttonous attack
Remember this tale of the biter bit back

Temptation, the original sin, that one little bite caused it all to begin
Temptation, the original sin, they both wore no clothes when the worm burrowed in
Temptation, the original sin, that one little bite caused it all to begin
Temptation, the original sin, they both wore no clothes when the worm burrowed in

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from Suburban Pastoral, released January 2, 2013
Alto Sax: Paul Davey
Trumpet: John Eacott
Trombone: Paul Taylor
Cello: Jon Bond
Guitar & Vocals: Helen

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Helen McCookerybook is an outstanding songwriter who's beginnings formed in the punk era, old associates The Monochrome Set/The Pirhanas her first band was The Chefs (John Peel fave) She later signed to RCA with her band The Horns and had a couple of minor hits
Helen took 20 years out to become a Mum and PHD, taking up her songwriting again in 2003. Suburban Pastoral was her 1st solo record. ... more

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