Special Agent (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Special Agent
Type = studio
Artist = Martin Simpson


Released = 1981
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label =
Producer = Waterfront
Reviews =
Last album = Golden Vanity
(1976)
This album = Special Agent
(1981)
Next album = Grinning In Your Face
(1983)

"Special Agent" is a folk album by Martin Simpson released in 1981.

Produced by Ric Sanders and Martin Simpson, recorded at Moor Green Studios, Rock, Wyre Forest. Originally issued by Waterfront in the UK, catalogue number WF 008.

Typically of an early Simpson album, it embraces both contemporary and traditional pieces and includes a Randy Newman song.

Track listing

#Special Agent (Sleepy John Estes)
#Desperadoes Waiting For A Train (Guy Clark)
#Guitar Medley: The Frost Is All Over / The Redheaded Boil (trad arr. Simpson)
#Roustabout (trad arr. Simpson)
#Jamaica Farewell (trad arr. Simpson)
#Banjo Medley: Barlow Knife / Shoot The Turkey Buzzard / Denis Murphy's Polka (trad arr. Simpson)
#Joshua Gone Barbados (Eric Von Schmidt)
#McCrimmon's Lament (trad arr. Simpson)
#Broke Down Engine (words trad arr. Simpson /music Simpson)
#The Demon Lover (trad arr. Simpson)
#You Win Again (Hank Williams)
#I Think It's Going To Rain Today (Randy Newman)

Personnel

*Martin Simpson - vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, dobro, banjo
*Dave Bristow - piano
*Andy Cronshaw - hammer dulcimer
*Jonathan Davie - electric bass guitars
*Michael Gregory - drums, percussion
*Louisa Livingstone - vocals
*Rob Mason - harmonica
*Ric Sanders - violin