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Midwinter
by: Various
List Price: £78.99Price: £32.41 You Save: £46.58 (59%)Prices subject to change.
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0020286209423
Format: Import, Box set
Label: Free Reed
Manufacturer: Free Reed
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Free Reed
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Studio: Free Reed
Sales Rank: 32846
Disc 1:- Gower Wassail (First Part) - Phil Tanner
- Stopping by Woods/Intro: A Roving on a Winter's Night - Maggie Boyle, Robert Frost, Steve Tolston
- River - Grace Notes, Grace Notes
- Skater's Waltz/Excerpt from the Prelude - John Fahey, Jimmy Lawton
- Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand - Lal Waterson
- Spirit of Christmas - Steve Ashley, Tinderbox
- From Hamlet Act 1/Christmas Is A-Comin' - Leadbelly, Gary Watson
- Xmas Island - Blind Boy Grunt, Richard Fariña, Eric Von Schmidt
- Humstrum - Tim Laylock, David Strawbridge
- Sound Your Instruments of Joy - Mabe Choir
- Wassail - John Kirkpatrick
- Snow Falls - The Albion Band, John Tams
- Wintergrace - Jean Ritchie
- Cherry Tree Carol - Shirley Collins
- Red & Green Christmas - Nadia Cattouse
- Emmanuel - The Watersons
- Song to Mithras - Peter Bellamy
- Meadowhall Carol - Coope, Boyes & Simpson
- God Bless the Birthday Boy - The McCalmans
- Moving on Song - Ewan McCall
- Christmas Eve Can Kill You - Suzie Adams, Helen Watson
- Workhouse Boy - Halliard
- Snow Is on the Ground (Excerpt)/Snow Is on the Ground - Barbara Benn, Eleazor Tillett, Jeff Warner
- Christmas Comes but Once a Year - Enoch Kent
- Jack Frost & The Hooded Crow - Dave Pegg
- Night Before Christmas - Mike Hockenhull
- Christmas Tree - Charlie Fretwell
Disc 2:- Luke 2:1/White Shepherds - Scan Tester, Nigel Schofield
- Christmas Must Be Tonight - Johnny Coppin
- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity/For Unto Us a Child - Jimmy Lawton, John McCutcheon
- Shepherds Arise - Bob Copper, Ron Copper
- Luke 2:8/Sherburne - Sacred Harp Convention 1959, Nigel Schofield
- Hark Hark What News/Luke 2:7 - Nigel Schofield, Singers At The Black Bill
- Once in Royal David's City - Martyn Wyndham Read, Martyn Wyndham-Read
- Three Harks - Coope, Boyes & Simpson
- Wexford Carol - Maggie Boyle
- I Sing of a Maiden - Shirley Collins
- Lullay My Liking - The Young Tradition
- Silent Night - Bernie Parry
- First Nowell - BaccaPella
- Matthew 2:1/Follow That Star - Nigel Schofield, St. Agnes Fountain
- Star in the East (Brightest and Best) - Debra Cowan, John Roberts
- Astrologers' Journey - Johnny Coppin
- Journey of the Magi - T.S. Eliot
- Follow the Star - Gary Boyle, Maggie Boyle
- Herod & The Cock/Matt 2:18 - Nowell Sing We Clear, Nigel Schofield
- Coventry Carol/An Apocrypha - Joan Baez
- Carnal & The Crane - New Scorpion Band
- Go Tell It on the Mountain - Mahalia Jackson
- On Christmas Day - May Bradley
- Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - Druidstone
Disc 3:- Fire & Wine - Steve Ashley
- In the Winter - John Dipper, Laura Hockenhull
- Papa Ain't No Santy Claus - Butterbeans & Susie
- Winter Flowers - Martha Tilston
- Christmas in Prison - Fishken & Groves
- Jogging Along with My Reindeer - John Kirkpatrick
- Cardboard Christmas Boxes - Alan Hull
- Comfort & Joy - Clive Gregson
- First Snow in Brooklyn - Jethro Tull
- Lady Gay - Buell Kazee
- Peace o'er the World (Bradda Anthem) - Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Fraser & Boyes Freya
- Oh What a Lovely War/Christmas 1914 - Mike Harding
- Christmas Isn't What It Used to Be - Tim Moon
- Christmas - John Tams
- Ghost of Christmas Past - Mandy Morton Band
- Christmas Morning - Loudon Wainwright III
- Days of Holly & Mistletoe - Artisan
- Huron Carol - Carol Duveneck
- King - Maddy Prior, The Strawbs
- Christmas Hare - Muckram Wakes
- Chariots - John Kirkpatrick
- Remember Bethlehem - Kevin Loughran
Disc 4:- Old Christmas/Shooting - Nowell Sing We Clear
- Apple Tree Wassail - The Watersons
- Gloucestershire Wassail - Albion Christmas Band
- Oxen - Maddy Prior
- Burning Babe - Mike Hockenhull
- Bushes and Briars - Sandy Denny
- Poor Ditching Boy - Richard Thompson
- Reading Clock Almanac - Jimmy Lawton
- Dunstan Lullaby - Coope, Boyes & Simpson
- Watts' Cradle Hymn - Maddy Prior
- Boar's Head Carol - Teeside Fettlers
- Grinch - Boris Karloff
- Hunting the Wren - Joe Woods, Winifred Woods
- Cully Wren - Ian Campbell Folk Group
- Wren (The King) - Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick
- First Christmas Away from Home - Artisan
- Miner's Dream of Home - Fred Whiting
- Excerpt - Symondbury Mummers
- Happy Christmas (War Is Over)/We Sing Hallelujah - Alan Rose
- None but One - Jean Ritchie
- Mari Llwyd - John Clough
- Carol for the New Year - Nowell Sing We Clear
- Oxplough Song - Johnny Collins
- Three Ships Suite - Steve Tilston
- Gower Wassail (Reprise)/Midnight Chimes - Phil Tanner
- January Man [*] - Martin Carthy
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Album Description:
Free Reed's award-winning Revival Masters series of box-sets has so far explored the careers of some of the greatest folk and folk-rock stars (most recently, the best-selling RT - The Life & Music of Richard Thompson): their Cropredy Capers celebrated the world's longest running folk-rock festival, while their epic Transports set told the story of the birth of Australia.
This UK label's new October 2006 release dedicates four CDs and a 156-page book to the music and traditions of MidWinter. Most of the key elements and a great many of the songs that make up what we call the Traditional Christmas began life in America, but as this set shows there are midwinter traditions which stretch back hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus - including practices both pious and pagan, which were among the first exports from Britain to the New World. The set's 115 recordings include music and readings from both sides of the Atlantic and cover an astounding range of traditional genres - from Sacred Harp to the Sheffield Carols, big ballads to blues, singer-songwriters and tradition-bearers, living legends and recent stars.
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I agree with "Wylie" Stone (on amazon.com) that "not everything will suit" the listener's taste, but I stand by Nigel Schofield's right to place every track on this 4-CD set and I commend him for doing so.
This boxed set has an undeservedly, if understandably, low profile due to its specialised material and the capital outlay involved; yet I personally would have paid that amount for the first 6-8 tracks that sprang out from my first "skim" listening, let alone all the other gems. For me the older, sometimes raucous-sounding, source-related material does not rankle (as it might with those weaned on Steeleye's 'All Around My Hat', for example).
I already had some of the stuff by Peter Bellamy, the Coppers and the Watersons, ... Read More:
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