By Weary Well
Robin Williamson

Jez - Guitar/Vocals
James Patrick Gavin - Violin
Alastair Caplin - Viola
Nye Parsons - Double Bass

This song also came to me via Keith, but this time not from a mixtape. I had offered to clean the grime of a thousand fingers from his LP collection and on cleaning Robin’s 1975 album “A Glint at the Kindling”, was blown away by his epic history of the British Isles, “Twelve Denials on Merlin’s Grave” as well as this beautiful song.

It’s named after “The Wells of Weary”, a spring situated halfway up Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh’s dormant volcano, which, depending on your view-point, is a place of deep spiritual resonance or a muddy hole dotted with bulrushes and the odd condom. It seems to me that it is both a love-song to a woman, and on another level a love-song to nature.