Across these North Buckinghamshire fields  the plough was drawn up and down for centuries ~
Landowners drew lines, fenced and hedged off the enclosures ~ Navvies built the Grand Junction Canal, and,  forty years later the London & Birmingham Railway ~
Planners spread  a railway town, a post war New Town and  a vast new city.

Songs from the plays~
‘Worker By Name’, ‘Bigger, Brighter, Better’,
‘Days of Pride’ and ‘All Change’,
from the Maids Moreton Millennium Pageant ‘Moreton Made’, and from the radio programme ‘The Works’.

Track list

All songs K.Adams

1 Worksong   (The Works)
2 Crazy For Canals    (Moreton Made)
3 The Common Land    (Moreton Made)
4 Little By Little   (Worker By Name)
5 What Do They Think We Are?   (Bigger, Brighter, Better)
6 Bright Battalions   (Days of Pride)
7 The Man on The Hill
8 Tom Worker’s Song    (Worker By Name)
9 The Permanent Way   (All Change)
10 Mayfly
11 It Was Your Idea
12 Settling In   (Bigger, Brighter, Better)
13 Maidens of Moreton   (Moreton Made)

Review of ‘The Common Land’ from Shirefolk magazine

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“Based in Milton Keynes, Kevin Adams is a songwriter of rare quality. This collection, written between 1992 and 2000, mainly for theatre and radio productions, shows him to be a fine multi-instrumentalist, arranger, sound engineer and producer as well!

“The songs mainly have a traditional feel, with an eye to the history that really matters - the experiences, good or bad, of real people, and Kevin does it so well. My own favourite, Little by Little,is a beautifully written song of hardship, shame and a hint of hope, that reminded me of Eric Bogle at his best. Another gem, Settling In, and the Chas & Dave style What Do They Think We Are? refer to Londoners relocated to Bletchley. From the Iron Age Man on the Hill, through railways and canals, to the Hello and OK society of today, Kevin covers a lot of ground. One or two songs are a little over-orchestrated for my taste, but this is a minor gripe. The truth is, I couldn’t find anything else to criticise.”
Mike Blair

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