The Eighteenth Day of May formed a couple years ago, appropriately on a sunny evening in the month of May. Allison Brice (a New Orleans native with a beautifully mellifluous voice), Richard Olson (a Swedish-born singer and guitarist) and Ben Phillipson (a gifted guitarist and mandolin player who has been playing folk music since his childhood in Oxford) were high on a rooftop above east London. Instead of the inward looking urban sounds of most contemporary groups they decided, there and then, to form an acoustic three-piece with a much more bucolic outlook. 2006.
1) Eighteen Days
2) Sir Casey Jones
3) The Highest Tree
4) Deed I Do
5) Hide + Seek
6) Twing Folly Close
7) Lady Margaret
8) Cold Early Morning
9) Monday Morning's No Good Coming Down
10) The Waterman's Song to His Daughter
11) Flowers of the Forest
12) The Mandrake Screams