Sad or High Kicking

Infobox Album
Name = Sad Or High Kicking
Type = studio
Artist = Martin Simpson


Released = 1985
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label =
Producer = Topic Records
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Last album = Grinning In Your Face
(1983)
This album = Sad Or High Kicking
(1985)
Next album = Nobody's Fault But Mine
(1986)

"Sad or High Kicking" is a folk album by Martin Simpson recorded and released in 1985.

Produced at Ideal Sound Recorders, London by Tony Engle and Martin Simpson. Originally issued by Topic Records in the UK, catalogue number 12TS438.

Like most Martin Simpson albums, it includes a mixture of contemporary and traditional pieces.

Track listing

#Jazzman (Holstein)
#Shawnee Town (Dillon Bustin)
#Moth (Anne Lister)
#Living Without You (Randy Newman)
#For Jessica, Sad Or High Kicking (Simpson)/ My Dearest Dear (trad arr. Simpson)
#Icarus (Anne Lister)
#No Depression In Heaven (trad arr. Simpson)
#Let It Be Me (Becaud/Curtis/Delano)
#Stillness In Company (Jessica Radcliffe)
#The Lakes Of Ponchartrain (trad arr. Simpson)

Personnel

*Martin Simpson - vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel, dobro
*Micky Barker - drums, percussion
*Johnathan Davie - electric bass guitars
*Laurie Harper - fiddle, mandoline
*Rob Mason - harmonica with
*Dave Clewlow - trumpets, flugelhorn
*Ian Blake - Clarinets
*Andrew Cronshaw - Zither, stellpans