David Harley Words & Music & Pictures &...
For quite a while I’ve been threatening the world with a book based on my Tears of Morning album, on which nearly all the content has a Shropshire connection, including some settings of verse by Housman. The first version went onto the back-burner when I excised one of the appendices and gave it its own book ( The Vanes Of Shrewsbury ), which essentially provides historical and personal commentary on Shrewsbury as illustrated by my late uncle, Eddie Parker. I then veered into other projects, including a bo
Now, however, the Tears of Morning book (now renamed So Sound You Sleep ) is available, like the other three, as a paperback and as an eBook for Kindle.
How Sound You Sleep tells the stories behind the songs on the album Tears Of Morning , which comprises songs and settings of poetry with a (sometimes tenuous) connection to Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. Several of the poetry settings are from Housman’s ‘A Shropshire Lad’.
David Harley Words & Music & Pictures &...