1. Hark the Village Wait - RCA 1970
Tracks:
1. Calling on Song / 2. Blacksmith / 3. Fisherman's Wife / 4. Blackleg Miner / 5. Dark Eyed Sailor / 6. Copshawholme Fair / 7. All Things Are Quite Silent / 8. Hills of Greenmore / 9. My Johnny Was a Shoemaker / 10. Lowlands of Holland / 11. Twa Corbies / 12. One Night as I Lay on My Bed
Rating : 4
2. Please to See the King - Charisma 1971
Tracks:
1. Blacksmith / 2. Cold, Haily, Windy Night / 3. Jigs: Bryan O'Lynn/The Hag With the Money / 4. Prince Charlie Stuart / 5. Boys of Bedlam / 6. False Knight on the Road / 7. Lark in the Morning / 8. Female Drummer / 9. King / 10. Lovely on the Water
Rating : 4
3. Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again - Pegasus 1971
Tracks:
1. Gower Wassail / 2. Jigs: Paddy Clancey's Jig/Willie Clancy's Fancy / 3. Four Nights Drunk / 4. When I Was on Horseback / 5. Marrowbones / 6. Captain Coulston / 7. Reels: Dowd's Favourite/£10 Float/The Morning Dew / 8. Wee Weaver / 9. Skewball
Rating : 4
4. Below the Salt - Chrysalis 1972
Tracks:
1. Spotted Cow / 2. Rosebud In June / 3. Jig: The Bride's Favorite/Tansey's Fancy / 4. Sheep-Crook And Black Dog / 5. Royal Forester / 6. King Henry / 7. Gaudete / 8. John Barleycorn / 9. Saucy Sailor
Rating : 7
5. A Parcel of Rogues - Chrysalis 1973
Tracks:
1. One Misty Moisty Morning / 2. Alison Gross / 3. Bold Poachers / 4. Ups and Downs / 5. Robbery With Violins / 6. Wee Wee Man / 7. Weaver and the Factory Maid / 8. Rogues in a Nation / 9. Cam Ye O'er Frae France / 10. Hares on the Mountain
Rating : 8
6. Now We Are Six - Chrysalis 1974
Tracks:
1. Thomas the Rhymer / 2. Drink Down the Moon / 3. Two Magicians / 4. Now We Are Six / 5. Seven Hundred Elves / 6. Long-A-Growing / 7. Mooncoin Jig / 8. Edwin / 9. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star / 10. To Know Him Is to Love Him
Rating : 6
7. Commoners Crown - Chrysalis 1975
Tracks:
1. Little Sir Hugh / 2. Bach Goes to Limrick / 3. Long Lankin / 4. Dogs and Ferrets / 5. Galtee Farmer / 6. Demon Lover / 7. Elf Call / 8. Weary Cutters / 9. New York Girls
Rating : 8
8. All Around My Hat - Chrysalis 1975
Tracks:
1. Black Jack Davey / 2. Hard Times of Old England / 3. Cadgwith Anthem / 4. All Around My Hat / 5. Gamble Gold (Robin Hood) / 6. Wife of Usher's Well / 7. Sum Waves / 8. Dance With Me / 9. Batchelors Hall
Rating : 7
9. Rocket Cottage - Chrysalis 1976
Tracks:
1. London / 2. The Bosnian Hornpipes / 3. Orfeo / Nathan's Reel / 4. The Twelve Witches / 5. The Brown Girl / 6. Fighting For Strangers / 7. Sligo Maid / 8. Sir James The Rose / 9. The Drunkard
Rating : 4
My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
1. One Misty Moisty Morning ( Trad. ) Parcel of Rogues
2. Little Sir Hugh ( Trad. / Steeleye Span) Commoners Crown
3. All Around My Hat ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) All Around My Hat
4. Gaudete ( Trad. ) Below the Salt
5. Saucy Sailor ( Trad. ) Below the Salt
6. The Bold Poachers ( Trad. ) Parcel of Rogues
7. Rogues in a Nation ( Trad. ) Parcel of Rogues
8. Came Ye Oér Frae France ( Trad. ) Parcel of Rogues
9. Thomas the Rhymer ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Now We Are Six
10. Demon Lover ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Commoners Crown
11. The Wife of Usher's Well ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) All Around My Hat
12. Blackleg Miner ( Trad. ) Hark! The Village Wait
13. Sheepcrook ( Trad. ) Below the Salt
14. Long Lankin ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Commoners Crown
15. King Henry ( Trad.) Below the Salt
16. Lovely on the Water ( Trad.) Please to See the King
17. Alison Gross ( Trad. ) Parcel of Rogues
18. Long a Growing ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Now We Are Six
19. Black Jack Davy ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) All Around My Hat
20. Hard Times of Old England ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) All Around My Hat
21. Gamble Gold ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) All Around My Hat
22. London ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Rocket Cottage
23. The Brown Girls ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Rocket Cottage
24. Sir James the Rose ( Trad. / Steeleye Span ) Rocket Cottage
25. Wee Wee Man ( Trad. ) Parcel of Rogues
From 1977 Till Recent Years
1. Storm Force Ten - Chrysalis 1977
Tracks:
1. Awake, Awake / 2. Sweep, Chimney Sweep / 3. Wife of the Soldier / 4. Victory / 5. Black Freighter / 6. Some Rival / 7. Treadmill Song / 8. Seventeen Come Sunday
Rating :
2. Sails of Silver - Chrysalis 1980
Tracks:
1. Sails of Silver / 2. My Love / 3. Barnet Fair / 4. Senior Service / 5. Gone to America / 6. Where Are They Now / 7. Let Her Go Down/ 8. Longbone / 9. Marigold/Harvest Home / 10. Tell Me Why / 11. Thomas the Rhymer [Live][*] / 12. My Johnny [Live][*] / 13. Lark in the Morning [Live][*]
Rating :
3. Back in Line - Flutterby 1986
Tracks:
1. Edward / 2. Isabel / 3. Lady Diamond / 4. Cannon by Telemann / 5. Peace on the Border / 6. Blackleg Miner / 7. White Man / 8. Lanercost / 9. Scarecrow / 10. Take My Heart / 11. Somewhere in London / 12. Spotted Cow / 13. One Misty Moisty Morning
Rating :
4. Tempted and Tried - Chrysalis 1989
Tracks:
1. Jack Hall / 2. Two Butchers / 3. Padstow / 4. Reels: The First House in Connaught/Sailor's Bonnet / 5. Betsy Bell and Mary Gray / 6. Shaking of the Sheets / 7. Searching for Lambs / 8. Seagull / 9. Cruel Mother / 10. Following Me / 11. Fox
Rating :
5. Time - Shanachie 1996
Tracks:
1. The Prickly Bush / 2. The Old Maid In The Garrett/Tam Lin (Reel) / 3. Harvest Of The Moon / 4. Underneath Her Apron / 5. The Cutty Wren / 6. Go From My Window / 7. The Elf-Knight / 8. The Water Is Wide / 9. You Will Burn / 10. Corbies / 11. The Song Will Remain
Rating :
6. Horkstow Grange - Park 1999
Tracks:
1. Old Turf Fire / 2. Tricks of London / 3. Horkstow Grange / 4. Lord Randall / 5. Erin/ 6. Queen Mary/Hunsden House / 7. Bonny Birdy / 8. Bonny Irish Boy / 9. I Wish That I Never Was Wed / 10. Australia / 11. One True Love / 12. Parting Glass
Rating :
7. Bedlam Born - Park 2000
Tracks:
1. Well Done Liar! / 2. Who Told the Butcher? / 3. John of Ditchford / 4. I See His Blood Upon the Rose / 5. Black Swan / 6. The Beggar / 7. Poor Old Soldier / 8. Arbour / 9. There Was a Wealthy Merchant / 10. Beyond the Dreaming Place / 11. We Poor Labouring Men / 12. The Connemara Cradle Song / 13. Stephen / 14. The White Cliffs of Dover
Rating :
8. They Called Her Babylon - Park 2004
Tracks:
1. Van Diemen's Land / 2. Samain / 3. Heir of Linne / 4. Bride's Farewell / 5. They Called Her Babylon / 6. Mantle of Green / 7. Bede's Death Song / 8. Diversus and Lazarus / 9. Si Begh Si Mohr / 9. Child Owlet / 10. What's the Life of a Man?
Rating :
9. Winter - Park 2004
Tracks:
1. The First Nowell / 2. Down in Yon Forest / 3. Unconquered Sun / 4. Chanticleer / 5. Bright Morning Star / 6. Winter / 7. See Amid the Winter's Snow / 8. Mistletoe Bough / 9. Sing We the Virgin Mary / 10. Today in Bethlehem / 11. Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel / 12. Hark the Herald Angels Sing / 13. Good King Wenceslas / 14. In the Bleak Midwinter
Rating :
10. Bloody Men - Park 2006
Tracks:
1. Bonny Black Hare / 2. The Story of the Scullion King / 3. The Dreamer and the Widow / 4. Lord Elgin / 5. The Three Sisters / 6. The First House in Connaught / 7. Cold Haily Windy Night / 8. Whummil Bore / 9. Demon of the Well / 10. Lord Gregory / 11. Ned Ludd - Inclosure / 12. Ned Ludd - Rural Retreat / 13. Ned Ludd / 14. Ned Ludd - Prelude to Peterloo / 15. Ned Ludd - Peterloo the Day
Rating :
11. Cogs, Wheels and Lovers - Park 2009
Tracks:
1. Gallant Frigate Amphitrite / 2. Locks and Bolts / 3. Creeping Jane / 4. Just as the Tide / 5. Ranzo / 6. The Machiner’s Song / 7. Our Captain Cried / 8. Two Constant Lovers / 9. Madam Will You Walk / 10. The Unquiet Grave / 11. Thornaby Woods
Rating :
12. Wintersmith - Park 2013
Tracks:
1. Overture / 2. The Dark Morris Song / 3. Wintersmith / 4. You / 5. The Good Witch / 6. Band of Teachers / 7. The Wee Free Men / 8. Hiver / 9. Fire & Ice / 10. The Making of a Man / 11. Crown & Ice / 12. First Dance / 13. The Dark Morris Tune / 14. The Summer Lady / 15. Ancient Eyes / 16. We Shall Wear Midnight
13. Dodgy Bastards - Park 2016
Tracks:
1. Cruel Brother / 2. All Things Are Quite Silent / 3. Johnnie Armstrong / 4. Boys of Bedlam / 5. Brown Robyn’s Confession / 6. The Two Sisters / 7. Cromwell’s Skull / 8. Dodgy Bastards / 9. Gulliver Gentle and Rosemary / 10. The Gardener / 11. Bad Bones / 12. The Lofty Tall Ship / Shallow Brown
14. Est'd 1969 - Park 2019
Tracks:
1. Harvest / 2. Old Matron / 3. The January Man / 4. The Boy and the Mantle / 5. Mackerel of the Sea / 6. Cruel Ship's Carpenter / 7. Domestic / 8. Roadways / 9. Reclaimed
Rating :
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - December 25 - 2005
70 Hark the Village Waits - 1970
90 Below the Salt - 1972
116 A Parcel of Rogues - 1973
122 Commoners Crown - 1975
133 Please to See the King - 1971
140 All Around My Hat - 1975
152 Now We´re Six - 1974
157 Rocket Cottage - 1976
194 Storm Force Ten - 1977
196 Ten Man Mop - 1971
295 Innocent Victim - 1977
308 Live at Last - 1978
419 Sails of Silver - 1980
505 Tempted and Tried - 1989
754 Back in Line - 1986
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