Chris Smith and Whistler's
Mother
The complete Discography
The 4
Track Days
There's
a Lot of it About
CG2
(recorded 1983)
Side 1/
1/ Dear
Dee
2/
Barbara
3/
Ghosts in the Crystal Spires
4/ Moondancer
5/ I
Read it so it's True
6/ It
Only Rains on Sundays
7/
Shadow Dance *1
Side 2/
8/
Shamrock
9/
Breeze
10/
Above and Beyond
11/
It's Just
12/ Freeworld
13/
Cosmic Karma Blues
14/ Cry
Baby Cry *2
15/ Passchendale
16/
This Song has no Beginning
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar (14), Keyboards (7 & 10),
Electric Guitar (8), Bass (14).
Jeff
Ward - Acoustic & Electric Lead Guitars, Bass, drums, Piano, Keyboards (1),
Recorder.
Charlie
Turner - Acoustic (14), Electric (14) & Lead (7) Guitars.
Paul
Flynn - Acoustic Guitar (7)
All
songs written by Chris Smith except *1 Music by Paul Flynn Lyrics Chris Smith
& *2 Music by Charlie Turner Lyrics Chris Smith
Tracks
9,12 & 14 © Sound Music 1981
Tracks
1,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,15 & 16 © Sound Music 1982
Tracks
2,8 & 13 © Sound Music 1983
Songs
arranged by Chris Smith and Jeff Ward
Engineered
by Jeff Ward
Produced
by Jeff Ward & Chris Smith
Recorded
at Toadstool Studio
©
Cricket Green Cassettes 1984
The
Magic Garden
CG3
(recorded 1983)
Side 1/
1/The
Strange Song
2/Lady
Raven
3/Sunny
Day
4/Sailboat
5/Lady
you Spook me
6/Alice
(whoever you are)
Side 2/
The
Magic Garden
7/Introduction
*1
8/Goodbye
Mrs Evergreen
9/Herman's
Stroll
10/Home
Sweet Home
11/Mrs
Flabbergast
12/Into
the Garden *2
13/The
Windfall Blues *2
14/Rickety,
Rockety, Rock
15/The Yea Song
16/Outro *1
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Jeff
Ward - Acoustic & Electric Lead Guitars, Bass, drums, Piano, Recorder.
Paul
Flynn - Keyboards, Umms and Arrghs
on Magic Garden
All
songs written by Chris Smith except *1 music by Paul Flynn & *2 music by
Jeff Ward
Songs
arranged by Chris Smith and Jeff Ward
Engineered
by Jeff Ward
Produced
by Jeff Ward & Chris Smith
Recorded
at Toadstool Studio
©
Cricket Green Cassettes 1984
Daydreams
of the Storytellers Three
CG4
(recorded 1984)
Side 1/
1/Victorian
Summerhouse
2/Mere
Yards Yet a World Away *1
3/It's Gonna be One of Those Days
4/Friends
5/There
was a Time *2
Side 2/
6/Day
Glow
7/Mrs
McGill Feeds the Birds
8/Kemps
Jig *3
9/Circles
10/The Stairway
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Jeff
Ward - Acoustic & Electric Lead Guitars, , Bass,
drums, Piano, Recorder and all instruments upon tracks 2, 5, 6 and 8 plus
Vocals on track 2.
Paul
Flynn - Keyboards
All
songs by Chris Smith except *1 words by Chris Smith music by Jeff Ward *2 music
by Jeff Ward (based upon 'field of Eternity' by Anthony Phillips) *3
Traditional by
Unknown.
All
songs arranged by Chris Smith and Jeff Ward. Except tracks 2, 5, 6 and 8
arranged by Jeff Ward
Engineered
by Jeff Ward
Produced
by Jeff Ward & Chris Smith
Recorded
at Toadstool Studio
©
Cricket Green Cassettes 1984
The Portastudio / 8 track Days
Murder
with a Smile
(recorded 1985)
Side 1/
1/Welcome
to the Dreamscape
2/Another Mistake
3/Prisons
and Other Cages
4/Murder
with a Smile
Side 2/
5/Golden
Girl
6/Sea
Witch
7/Someone's
Under my Bed
8/Cmos Slaves
9/Rat
Race
10/Losing
Altitude
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar and all instruments upon track 6
Karl
Groom - Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Drum Machine and all instruments upon tracks 2,
7,8 and 9
Gary
Level - Electric Guitar
All
tracks: words by Chris Smith, music by Karl Groom except tracks 3, 4 and 6
words and music by Chris Smith
Engineered
by Karl Groom
Produced
by Chris Smith and Karl Groom
Recorded
at Rattle-brook Studios
The
Great Glass Asylum
Proposed
solo album by Chris Smith (recorded 1986 - 87)
1/People
Who Live in Glass Houses
2/Shades
of You
3/Crystal
4/I'm
up Here and Your Too Far Away
5/Room
with the Clearest View
6/To
Die for an English Sunset
7/Strange
Song 87
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Karl
Groom - Bass Guitar and Drum Machine on track 1and 5
Jeff
Ward - Electric Guitars, Drums on tracks 3, 4, 6 and 7 and Bass on track 4
Miles Evemy - Keyboards
This
album was never properly completed due to the events of 1986 -87
Tracks
1,2,3,5 and 7 were completed whilst tracks 4 and 6 exist only as memory board
copies i.e. not properly mixed and with only guide vocals. Whilst the last
track proposed for this album would appear as the opening track upon Salvation
Alley.
Tracks
1, 2 and 5 engineered by Karl Groom, produced by Chris Smith and Karl Groom and
recorded at Rattle-brook Studio
Tracks
3, 4, 6 and 7 engineered by Jeff Ward, produced by Chris Smith, Jeff Ward and
Karl Groom Recorded at Toadstool Studio
The 16
track days
People
who live in Glass Houses / Friends
Single
(recorded 1986)
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Jeff
Ward - Electric Lead Guitar
Clive
Nolan - Keyboards and Backing Vocals
Karl
Groom - Bass
All
songs written by Chris Smith
Engineered
by Steve Rispin
Produced
and arranged by Chris Smith, Karl Groom, Clive Nolan and Jeff Ward
Recorded
at Beatroot Studios
Salvation
Alley version 1
(recorded 1989)
Side 1/
1/Waiting
for the Storm to Break
2/Out
of the Light
3/Honesty's
Song
Side 2/
4/Dancing
on Barbed Wire
5/That's
the way it is!
6/Salvation
Alley
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Miles Evemy - Keyboards
Karl
Groom - Electric Bass and Lead Guitars and Drum machine
All
songs written by Chris Smith
Engineered
by Karl Groom
Produced
by Chris Smith and Karl Groom
Recorded
at Rattle-brook Studios
Salvation
Alley version 2
MB1/AMBUM2
(recorded 1991)/ (re-issued on CD 2001)
Side 1/
1/Waiting
for the Storm to Break
2/Out
of the Light
3/Honesty's
Song
Side 2/
4/Dancing
on Barbed Wire
5/That's
the way it is!
6/Salvation
Alley
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar and Bass Guitar on track 1
Jeff
Ward - Acoustic/Electric Lead and Bass Guitars, Mandolin, Drums and Percussion
Miles Evemy - Keyboards
All
songs written by Chris Smith
Engineered
by Jeff Ward
Produced
by Jeff Ward & Chris Smith
Recorded
at Toadstool Studio
The
Graceful Art of Falling
AMBUM1(recorded
1993 - 95)
1/The
Graceful Art of Falling
2/Sweet
Understanding
3/Winter
4/Prisons
and Other cages
5/Under
a Sheltering Sky
6/Speak
to me
7/Little
do we Know
8/Here
Comes the Hurricane
9/Going
Back
10/Melancholies
Bitter Sweet Amber
The
Artists:
Chris
Smith - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar and Bass Guitar on track 1
Jeff
Ward - Acoustic/Electric Lead and Bass Guitars, Drums and Percussion, Mandolin
and Organ
Miles Evemy - Keyboards
Michael
Brown - Drums upon tracks 1,2 and 3
Sarah Midson - Bass upon tracks 1,2 and
3
All
songs written by Chris Smith, except track 9 by Miles Evemy
Engineered
by Jeff Ward
Produced
by Jeff Ward & Chris Smith
Recorded
at Jeff Ward's private studio in England and Eire
In
the Flesh
AMBUM3
(recorded live 2001 – Windsor Arts Centre)
1/ It's Not Going Too Well If It's Going At All!
2/ The Devil Will Find Us Work
3/ The Scattered Seeds Of Time
4/ Out
Of The Light
5/
Translucent Days
6/
Lullaby
7/ Passchendale
8/
Waiting For The Storm To Break
9/ The Graceful Art Of Falling
10/
Sweet Understanding
11/
Under a Sheltering Sky
12/ 88
- 89 and Climbing
13/
Melancholies Bitter Sweet Amber
With
Guest Stars: Jeff Ward (lead guitar), Miles Evemy
(keyboards) and Steve Anderson (bass)
Recorded
live at the Windsor Art Centre August 16th 2001
Translucent
Days
Chris
Smith and Jeff Ward
AMBUM4
(recorded 2001 - 2002)
Featuring:
Translucent
days
The
Devil Will Find Us Work
88 - 89
and Climbing
Lullaby
All
That You've Defined
The
Song
The
Scattered Seeds of Time
In the
Quiet Moments
And
While You Sleep
Once
More With Feeling
AMBUM5 (recorded 2011 )
Featuring:
Down
Among the Dead Men
Gable
Doesn’t Give a Damn
Watching
Time Go By
Marks
of the Rod We Made
A
Symphony in Blue and Grey
You and
I
Hell is
What You Make It
Till it all Came Down
Misery