Francey, David - Maps

Format: 2CD
Label: Laker Music
Year: 2025
Origin: Ayrshire, Scotland, 🇬🇧 → Elphin, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Genre: folk
Keyword: 
Value of Original Title: 
Inquiries Email: ryder@robertwilliston.com
Release Type: Albums
Buy directly from Artist:  https://www.davidfrancey.com/product-page/maps, https://davidfrancey.bandcamp.com/album/maps-3
Playlist: Ontario, Folk, 2020's

Tracks

Side 1

Track Name
Red-Winged Blackbird
Come Rain or Come Shine
Paper Boy
The Waking Hour
Lonely Road
Blue Water
Broken Glass
Ballad of Bowser MacRae
Satellite
Morning Train
Hard Steel Mill
The Flower of Colonsay
Annie's House
Border Line
Ashtabula
Nearly Midnight
Skating Rink
Highway 95
Ankle Tattoo
Fool

Side 2

Track Name
The Gate
Rain
Empty Train
Far End of Summer
Only Love
Walking in Jerusalem
Saints and Sinners
February Morning Drive
Kansas
Pandora's Box
Tonight in My Dreams
Banks of the Seaway
All Lights Burning Bright
Lucky Man
Grateful
Torn Screen Door
Corpus Christi (bonus track)

Photos

Maps

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Information/Write-up

Released July 22, 2025

"I have been writing songs for over 50 years, each song is a map that helped me navigate through the ups an downs life put in my way. I'd have been lost without them" David Francey

Musicians
David Francey: lead and backing vocals, bouzouki
Dave Clarke: guitar
Mark Westberg: guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals, brushes
Chris Coole: guitar, banjo, harmony and backing vocals
Darren McMullen: mandolin, bouzouki, cittern, baritone guitar, upright bass, bass, tenor banjo, harmony and backing vocals
Geoff Somers: guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals
Craig Werth: guitar, bouzouki, cittern, dulcimer, backing vocals
Kieran Kane: guitar, bouzouki, percussion, backing and harmony vocals
Kevin Welch: guitar, shaker, “cell phone,” backing and harmony vocals
Fats Kaplin: mandolin, fiddle, dobro
Simon Lepage: bass
Gaston Bernard: fiddle, mandolin
John Showman: fiddle
James McKie: fiddle
Shane Simpson: percussion
Colin Francey: drums, backing vocals, guitar, harmony vocals
Terra Spencer: piano, guitar, backing vocals
David Woodhead: slide guitar
Lucas Kane: drums
Mike Ford: harmony vocals
David Matheson: harmony vocals
Evey Miller: backing vocals
Todd Gorr: backing vocals

Songwriting
All songs and music written by David Francey, except 'Walking in Jerusalem' (traditional).

All songs, lyrics, and music by David Francey. Except “Walking in Jerusalem (Trad.)
Mastered by Mariana Hutten Czapski at Lacquer Channel

Photography by Beth Girdler, album design and copy editing by Colin Francey, Brinley Arnou, and Beth Girdler
All collage photos from the personal collection of David and Beth

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