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The Albion Band: Songs from the Shows 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS

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Management number 205702821 Release Date 2025/10/22 List Price $104.40 Model Number 205702821
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Title: Songs from the Shows 1 & 2
Artist: The Albion Band
Label: Road Goes on Forever
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5022539200626
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2002-08-27
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

2007 digitally remastered 2 CD set that combines both of the individual albums together in one package. It's 42 tracks of both concert & studio recordings from a variety of sources: TV shows (1977's "Here We Come A-Wassailing" and 1988's "The Wild Side of Town"), stage shows ("The Albion Band Christmas Shows" from 1984-1986, and "Lark Rise", an adaptation of Flora Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford"), radio (1978's "Albion River Hymn"), studio recordings ("An Easter Garland" from 1984/85) and a film (1989's "Key to the North"), "Songs from the Shows" includes material from the period 1977-1989, performed by a bewildering number of line-ups of the Band, all led by the John Mayall of British folk/rock, Ashley Hutchings. Other noted musician appearances include are Fairport Convention's Simon Nicol & Ric Sanders, Michael Gregory, John Tams, Graeme Taylor, Phil Beer (Show of Hands) and singing icons Cathy Lesurf and June Tabor.

Tracks:
1.1 Here We Come A-Wassailing
1.2 While Shepherd's Watched
1.3 Ashley Reads 'Charles Dickens'
1.4 Rudolph Blues
1.5 Run Rudolph Run
1.6 Phil Reads from 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
1.7 Broom Dance
1.8 Cathy Reads 'And Death Shall Have No Domain'
1.9 In the Cross of Christ
1.10 Tramp on the Street
1.11 Lamb of God
1.12 Sweet Themmes Run Softly
1.13 Poor Old Horse
1.14 Howard Reads from 'Three Men in a Boat'
1.15 Simon (As a Swan) Recites a Poem By Spike Milligan
1.16 Swan-Upping Song
1.17 Lemady/Arise and Pick a Posy
1.18 Foxy Comes to Town
1.19 Dominion of the Sword
1.20 When the Fighting Is Over
2.1 Rumor Hill
2.2 Bells of Paradise
2.3 Cathy Lesurf Introducing a John Clare Power Read By Ashley
2.4 Snow Falls
2.5 Key to the North
2.6 Life on the River
2.7 The Sheep Shearing Song
2.8 The Building of Our Bridge
2.9 Twickenham Ferry
2.10 Letters
2.11 Horse Music
2.12 Burning the Clavie
2.13 Speed the Plough
2.14 All in the Morning
2.15 Judas
2.16 Jesus and Shall It Ever Be
2.17 Poor Old Man
2.18 The Wastelands of England
2.19 Big Yellow Taxi/New Jerusalem
2.20 Wayfaring Stranger
2.21 Dragonfly
2.22 Haxey Hood Game/Estampie

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