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Cat No: FTSR5

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Release Date: 19 November 2002

Label: Fellside

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5017116700521

Genres: Folk English Folk

Description
This collection of songs traces a year through its seasons, some of the ceremonies, some of the traditions and some of the attendant rituals.

They are largely pre-industrial and in some cases, their roots lie in pre-christian rituals.

Essentialy they are songs and customs that have been carried on by ordinary people who are attuned to the year's cycle and the need for a good crop: many of the "gusing" rituals are concerned with death and resurrection but in connection to the old year and new one rather than in a biblical sense.
Tracklisting
1. The Moon Shines Bright - Ram's Bottom
2. The Oxplough Song - Johnny Collins
3. Gloucestershire Wassail - Ian Woods
4. Trunkles - Laurence Platt
5. Jack in the Green - White Hart
6. April Song - Jolly Jack
7. The Jolly Boys Song - Preston Isle Metal Band
8. The Buffoon - Laurence Platt
9. Midgley Pace Egg Song - Derek & Dorothy Elliott
10. Jennifer Gentle - Martin Carter
11. Bedfordshire May Song - White Hart
12. The Five Wells - The Ripley Wayfarers
13. Brimbledon Fair - John Rennard
14. Gee Cross Fair/How Do You Do - Tom Shepley's Band
15. Long Meg & Her Daughters - Linda Adams
16. Bonny Hawthorn - Johnny Collins
17. Country Gardens - Laurence Platt
18. Mottram Wakes - Tom Shepley's Band
19. Harvest Song - Johnny Collins
20. Souling Song - Paul Adams
21. The Tupper's Song - Notts Alliance
22. All You That Are Good Fellows - Graham & Sheila Nelmes
23. Shepherds Arise - White Hart
24. The Boar's Head Carol - Teeside Fettlers
25. Four Seasons - Bob Diehl
26. Nowell Nowell - Ram's Bottom
27. The Turning Of The Year - Farmstead