The Decca Years 1974 to 1977

Tracklist

• CD 1: Deal Gone Down - 1974
• 1
  The Rock’n’ Roll Jigley
  1:43
• 2
  Party Pieces
  4:52
• 3
  Another Season Song
  3:27
• 4
  Stranger Passing By
  3:29
• 5
  Used to Be
  1:47
• 6
  Deal Gone Down
  4:02
• 7
  The Banjo Song
  3:32
• 8
  Theme From the Movie of the Same Name
  2:15
• 9
  Goodbye Sunny Sky
  3:19
• 10
  Journeyman
  5:12
• 11
  Dumplings (instrumental from The Deal Gone Down session - B side to The Banjo Song single)
  1:35
• 12
  Stranger Passing By (demo)
  4:36
• 13
  Theme From the Movie of the Same Name (demo)
  2:49
• 14
  Goodbye Sunny Sky (demo)
  2:52
• 15
  Untitled Rag (demo)
  1:51
• 16
  Journeyman (demo)
  3:11
• 17
  Another Season Song (demo, previously unissued)
  3:28
• 18
  Deal Gone Down (demo, previously unissued)
  2:03
• 19
  Party Pieces (demo, previously unissued)
  3:14
• 20
  Used to Be (demo, previously unissued)
  2:11
• CD 2: Savage Amusement - 1976
• 1
  Shuffleboat River Farewell
  4:39
• 2
  Secret of the Locks
  3:58
• 3
  Crocky Hill Disaster
  4:41
• 4
  Lovin’ Dove
  3:33
• 5
  Hobo’s Lament
  3:16
• 6
  Stranger
  7:39
• 7
  How Can a Poor Man
  2:41
• 8
  It Didn’t Work Out
  5:26
• 9
  Devastation Hotel
  5:20
• 10
  Lovin’ Dove (demo)
  2:45
• 11
  Just to Keep You (demo)
  3:07
• 12
  Devastation Hotel & Crocky Hill Disaster Idea (demo)
  2:54
• 13
  Waiting for a Train (All Around the Water Tank) (demo)
  3:23
• 14
  Devastation Hotel (demo, previously unissued)
  1:52
• 15
  Hobo’s Lament (demo, previously unissued)
  2:04
• 16
  Lost Ragtime Piece (demo, previously unissued)
  1:51
• 17
  Lovin’ Dove (demo, previously unissued)
  0:59
• CD 3: The Man Who Hated Mornings - 1977
• 1
  Northern Lights
  7:23
• 2
  I’m Sober Now
  3:45
• 3
  The Man Who Hated Mornings
  4:07
• 4
  Ballad in Plain D
  4:43
• 5
  Steel Bonnets
  2:58
• 6
  Dogs Got More Sense
  4:04
• 7
  Falling Apart
  3:35
• 8
  While Dancing the Pride of Erin
  2:55
• 9
  Dreams Are Dangerous Things
  4:47
• 10
  Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?
  2:51
• 11
  Dogs Got More Sense (early version recorded for proposed single)
  3:47
• 12
  Expressway in the Rain (demo, previously unissued) (Millstone Grit album)
  2:38
• 13
  Steel Bonnets (instrumental)
  2:04

More by Michael Chapman

Journeyman

Journeyman 2015

Still Making Rain

Still Making Rain 2003

Americana

Americana 2000

Dreaming Out Loud

Dreaming Out Loud 1997

Pleasures of the Street

Pleasures of the Street 1975

Rainmaker

Rainmaker 1969

Issues

• T
  The Decca Years 1974 to 1977

  3x CD
  2021