Written by: Paul McCartney
Recorded: December 2007 – June 2008
Producers: Paul McCartney, Youth
Released: 24 November 2008 (UK), 25 November 2008 (US)
Available on:
Electric Arguments
Personnel
Paul McCartney: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, Mellotron, flute, drums, percussion
‘Travelling Light’ is the fourth song on Electric Arguments, Paul McCartney’s third album as The Fireman.
It was the first song on the album to take shape in the studio. McCartney found inspiration from an album of sea shanties released by Youth (Martin Glover), his collaborator on the Fireman projects.
I’d been listening to a CD of sea shanties, and Youth runs a folk label called Butterfly.They put out these compilations called What The Folk, so he’d sent me them. As a result, ‘Travelling Light’ is a folky sea shanty, and we took it from there.