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The Gulley Flats Boys is an album from British musician Francis Dunnery, first released in 2005 as a double CD, and later reissued as a download. The title of the album is a reference to the council estate in Cumbria, North-west England where Francis grew up alongside the friends pictured on the original CD cover. Sonically it is very stripped down, revolving almost entirely around Dunnery's vocals and acoustic guitar playing and piano courtesy of David Sancious. There are also elements of minimal percussion and other supporting instrumentation, but Dunnery and Sancious remain the core throughout. The album features two re-recordings of older songs. The latter is almost entirely re-worked, changing from the original mid-tempo stomp to a much more reflective and mournful ballad. In 2022 Dunnery revisited the original recordings of The Gulley Flats Boys and tweaked them sonically, remixing the album to bring out more character and depth. Alongside the remixed vocal version of it he issued an instrumental version, so that listeners could hear the nuances and subtleties that Sancious, Dorie Jackson and Dunnery were playing and singing. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gul...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)