5020393308427

God Bless The Plough

John Kirkpatrick

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Format: CD

Cat No: FLED3084

Release Date:  28 March 2011

Label:  Fledg'ling

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020393308427

Genres:  Folk  English Folk  

  • Description

    BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of 2010 returns with a new thematic collection celebrating the Victorian Farming Year in Song.

    John Kirkpatrick was the featured musician in the recent acclaimed BBC TV series 'The Victorian Farm'. His latest album is a powerful collection celebrating the Victorian Farming Year in Song. As John notes in his modest sleevenotes:
    "Songs about farmers, and songs sung by farmers; songs about the work on the farm, and songs to make that work easier; songs celebrating particular days in the country calendar, and songs celebrating the daily miracle of life, death, and renewal. And the world we are shown here is not a romantic pastoral idyll viewed through rose-tinted spectacles – this is a world full of sweat and muck, a world with dirt under the finger nails, a world full of snorting, and grunting, and heaving."

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The First Of May
      • 2. The Thrashing Machiners
      • 3. The Wassailing Bowl
      • 4. Peas Beans, And Oats
      • 5. Bean Setters; Bean Planting
      • 6. The Carter's Song
      • 7. Sheeover Birds
      • 8. Polly's Father
      • 9. Drink, Boys, Drink
      • 10. 1The Oxen Ploughing
      • 11. The Sweet Month Of May
      • 12. Speed The Plough
      • 13. God Speed The Plough
      • 14. The Grumbling Farmers
      • 15. What's The Life Of A Man?
      • 16. The Farmer's Boy