b'of money for important causes. We could evenit came together. It was soon apparent that one CD raise money for charities that support musicians,would not be enough, and even with two discs we that was a moment of clarity for us, which madeonly just managed to fit it all on.In the end, there sense of the whole idea, it didnt need to be simplywere one or two recordings that we couldnt get, a marketing opportunity or a vanity project. We allbut we couldnt reasonably go to three discs, so it know people who need help, musicians often workall worked out fine. by themselves, and often have less support thanPaul and Linda Adams from our local Fellside others, so financial help is very important. Mentalrecords put it all together: mastering, legal details, health is another issue that affects so many people,printing and pressing, giving constant technical and musicians often have their own particularadvice and helping to find lost tracks. I dont think issues.The final piece of the jigsaw was the ideaI could have worked as closely with anybody else of helping to plant trees, and I admit that was myas soon as I started to write the sleeve notes it little bit of selfish personal interest. Three charities,became apparent it was a massive, almost separate all aimed at music. The whole project seemedproject. With 43 tracks, a simple booklet would not complete, at least in principle. be enough. Some of the artists are so central to the I started to ask all of my professional customers,history of Fylde, even to the history of UK music, and everybody said yes. What had not occurred tothat I had to take the opportunity of explaining all us was that it would take nine months, and manythe connections. sleepless nights to collect everything we needed.Of course, I asked Mike English to take on the Some artists had contractual or copyright issues,design task and it was a masterstroke, he matched some were so busy that we couldnt pin them down.a superb set of recordings with a proper hardcover Some were too keen, we didnt have enough roombook, 128 pages with photos of every artist, the for the music they wanted to record, and I hadhistory relating to Fylde and explanations of the to be a little firm with them.Some insisted onmusic. There are proper track listings, and the CDs gathering a band around them or hiring studiosare printed with the appropriate sets of tracks. I specially for this one recording. Slowly, so slowly,was continually adding bits, and Mike constantly Strings that Nimble Leap is a major recording project for charity. It comprises 43 tracks involving 52 musicians, all playing Fylde guitars, or in some cases, mandolin, bouzouki, acoustic bass or ukulele.135'