Instrumental sections from the years I fronted a folk group called ‘Mouth 4 Rusty’.


Track 1 (2009)

00.00 Keep The Line Simple (Lemon Cake and Dirt Weed)
00.07 I’ll Have the Same (Lemon Cake and Dirt Weed)
00.28 A Little More Grown (Lemon Cake and Dirt Weed)
00.35 With a Heart Less Wracked (Lemon Cake and Dirt Weed)
00.43 Joyful Under Water (Good Men Now)
01.24 There’s Just No Pleasing Me (demo)
01.46 There’s Just No Pleasing Me (Good Men Now)
02.11 Good Men Now (Good Men Now)
02.33 Take The Queen (Forgotten Songs)
03.50 The Holding (Good Men Now)
04.22 What’s An Open Soul To Do? (Good Men Now)
04.49 A Wall of Wooden (solo recording)
05.05 A Wall of Wooden Doors (band recording)
05.37 Man of Steel (Forgotten Songs)


Track 2 (2010)

00.00 Not the Soho Square (Forgotten Songs)
01.23 A Letter Home (Good Men Now)
02.46 Russell Square (Good Men Now)
03.11 No Last Verse (Good Men Now)


Track 3 (2011, all from ‘Fire, Mice and Other People’)

00.00 Bikes
00.28 Dear Enemy
01.33 Harrison
01.53 Reputation
01.56 Kittens
02.58 Photograph
03.30 Very Well Made
04.14 Three
05.53 Children


Track 4 (2012, all from ‘What’s Getting Somewhere?’)

00.00 The Leaver
00.34 The Burden
01.46 These Ghosts
02.56 Twists and Slows
03.56 Cohen
04.12 Much In These Walls
04.18 These Ghosts (reprise)


Track 5 (2013 and 2014, all from ‘Must Take More Care’)

00.00 After
00.44 That I Could Have Done It Better Doesn’t Mean I Wasn’t Right
01.18 Women and Children and Men
02.35 The Last One On Your Mind
03.36 If You Were My Punishment
05.42 Long Gone Trust


Track 6 (2015, from ’So Long City, Sorrow, Sadness’ until 01.58)

00.00 Wheezy
00.26 The Lay
00.47 Hi-Watt
01.12 Go Where You’re Loved
01.35 Now The Drinking
01.58 Hard Hand to Hold (Willy Mason)


Track 7

Let’s Beg Forgiveness (Instrumental Version, 24th August 2016)


Performed by

Matt Rigsby Smith - guitars, banjo, melodica, clarinet, harmonium, casiotone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, bowed berimbau, bass, drums, percussion, recording and mixing

Natalie Sedgewick - violin on tracks 1 and 2

Sarah Glayzer - cello on tracks 1 and 2

James Hitchins - double bass on track 1, 02.11 - 02.33 and 03.51 - 4.24, track 2, 01.23 - 03.11 and track 3, 00.28 - 03.11

Nate Trier - piano and piano recording on track 1, 04.50 - 04.22 and piano and co-arrangement of piano parts on track 5, 02.35 - 03.36

Anna Francis - accordion on track 2, 01.23 - 02.46

Kort Eckman - cello and cello recording on track 3, 00.28 - 01.33 and 01.53 - 01.56

Fiona Stewart - violin and violin recording on tracks 3 and 5, strings arrangement on track 3, 00.00 - 00.28

Jack Collins - organ on track 4, 00.00 - 00.34

Janine Baker - double bass and piano on track 4, double bass on track 5, piano on track 5, 00.00 - 02.35 and 05.42

Emma Davis - melodica on track 4, 00.34 - 01.46, mountain dulcimer on track 6, 00.00 - 00.26

Richard Davis - moog and moog recording on track 5, 05.42

Chaz Semeur - saxophone on track 5, 00.44 - 01.18

Sarah Bear - cello and cello recording on track 5, 00.44 - 01.18

Chris Manes - cello samples on track 5, 00.44 - 01.18

Gabriel Barrett - trumpet and trumpet recording on track 5, 01.18 - 02.35

Scott Craggs - drums on track 6, 01.58 - 05.15

Simon Nelson - co-engineer on track 1, 01.46 - 01.54, 04.22 - 04.49 and 05.05 - 05.37

Martina Borrut - co-engineer on track 4, 00.34 - 01.46

Songs available in full at mouth4rusty.bandcamp.com


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