5028479013623

The Countryside Collection

Various Artists

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Format: CD

Cat No: TECD136

Release Date:  23 March 2009

Label:  Talking Elephant

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5028479013623

Genres:  Folk  English Folk  

  • Description

    Various Artists at mid-price compiled by Ashley Hutchings.Perfect for renewed interest in all things rural England inspired by BBC Lark Rise to Candleford series.

    Ashley Hutchings has compiled a very traditional countryside compilations drawn from such diverse threads as Morris music,Cecil Sharpe,The Rainbow Chasers,The Albion Christmas Band and many more. Being high profile at the moment due to The Lark Rise Band and the BBC series Lark Rise to Candleford,this is the perfect time for a traditional/cultural countryside album to appeal to the rural idyll that is portayed in the programme.

    Having so many styles of the folk genre contained within the album it will appeal to the Fairport Convention/Morris/traditional folk/middle England audiences at a time when popularity for this type of music is at a peak.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Oak
      • 2. Blue Eyed Stranger
      • 3. God Bless the Master
      • 4. Gloucester Hornpipe/Mr. Trills' Song
      • 5. Banbury Bill
      • 6. Brambles On a Hill
      • 7. My Father Played the Melodeon
      • 8. Turn the Lathe
      • 9. The Old Cotswold Legbar
      • 10. Stanley's Wake
      • 11. The Field and the Farm
      • 12. The King
      • 13. May Song
      • 14. Gloucester Wassail
      • 15. Rosebud in June
      • 16. 8th of July/Glory of the West