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Present – The Very Best Of Steeleye Span
''Present – The Very Best of Steeleye Span'' is the 17th studio album by Steeleye Span, released in 2002. The album contains new recordings of previously released songs. The project began with a poll on Peter Knight's website, asking fans about which of the band's songs they would most like to see new versions of. At the time the poll was taken, the band was a state of near-collapse. Personal tensions during the recording of ''Bedlam Born'' had led to the departure of Gay Woods and Tim Harries, and health problems had induced Bob Johnson into retirement. When the poll was completed, Knight persuaded several past members of the band, Maddy Prior, Rick Kemp and Liam Genockey, to return to the studio; and he also coaxed Johnson out of retirement. The newly reformed line-up, similar to the band's famous mid-1970s membership, released the results as a two-disc set in 2002. The majority of the songs are modest variations on the original versions. For example, songs such as "Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, England, in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band soon incorporated elements of English folk, hard rock, and classical music, forging a signature progressive rock sound. The group’s bandleader, founder, primary composer, and only constant member is Ian Anderson, a multi-instrumentalist who mainly plays flute and acoustic guitar, and is also the lead vocalist. The group has featured a revolving door of musicians throughout the decades, including significant contributors such as electric guitarist Martin Barre (the longest serving member besides Anderson), keyboardists John Evan, Dee Palmer, Peter-John Vettese, and Andrew Giddings, drummers Clive Bunker, Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow, and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, Dave Pegg, and Jonathan Noyce. After achieving moderate recognition performing in the London club scene, the band released their debut album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyke-Wake Dirge
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song tells of the soul's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory. Though it is from the Christian era and features references to Christianity, much of the symbolism is thought to be of pre-Christian origin. The title The title refers to the act of watching over the dead between the death and funeral, known as a wake. "Lyke" is an obsolete word meaning a corpse. It is related to other extant Germanic words such as the German , the Dutch and the Norwegian , all meaning "corpse". It survives in modern English in the expression ''lychgate'', the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where, in former times, a dead body was placed before burial, and the fictional undead monster type lich. "Lyke-wake" could also be from the Norse influence on the Yorkshire dialect: the contemporary Norwegian and Swedish words for "wake" are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Parcel Of Steeleye Span
''A Parcel of Steeleye Span'', full title ''A Parcel of Steeleye Span: Their First Five Chrysalis Albums 1972–1975'', is a 2009 remastered box set of Steeleye Span's first five Chrysalis albums: ''Below the Salt, Parcel of Rogues, Now We Are Six, Commoners Crown, All Around My Hat''. Track listing All tracks are "2009 Digital Remasters" unless stated otherwise. All songs are Traditional, arr. Hart, Johnson, Kemp, Knight, Pegrum, Prior, except where noted. Disc 1: # Spotted Cow 3:08 # Rosebud in June 3:43 # Jigs (Medley) 3:13 # Sheepcrook and Black Dog 4:45 # Royal Forester 4:36 # King Henry 7:12 # Gaudete 2:27 # John Barleycorn 4:50 # Saucy Sailor 5:52 # Gaudete (Single Version) 2:27 # The Holly and the Ivy 2:25 # One Misty Moisty Morning 3:32 # Alison Gross 5:30 # The Bold Poachers 4:18 # The Ups and Downs 2:46 # Robbery with Violins 1:46 * Tracks 1-9 from ''Below the Salt'' * Tracks 12-16 from ''Parcel of Rogues'' * All songs: Traditional, arr. Hart, Johnson, Kemp, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now We Are Six (album)
''Now We Are Six'' is the sixth studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. Its title (borrowed from ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' author A.A. Milne's collection of poems for children) refers to both its sequence among their albums, and the band's size, in light of the addition of drummer Nigel Pegrum. The album was released in 1974 through Chrysalis Records. It reached number 13 in the UK albums chart. Although two session drummers had been employed on the group's debut, subsequent albums had seen little use of percussion. However, after '' Parcel of Rogues'' there was a conscious decision to add a full-time drummer to bolster the band's rock-oriented sound. Pegrum also contributed flute and oboe parts. Production ''Now We Are Six'' was produced by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, although he admitted that his part in the making of the album was minimal except for a little supervision and the invitation of David Bowie to play the saxophone. Critical response The album received m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas The Rhymer
Sir Thomas de Ercildoun, better remembered as Thomas the Rhymer (fl. c. 1220 – 1298), also known as Thomas Learmont or True Thomas, was a Scottish laird and reputed prophet from Earlston (then called "Erceldoune") in the Borders. Thomas' gift of prophecy is linked to his poetic ability. He is often cited as the author of the English ''Sir Tristrem'', a version of the Tristram legend, and some lines in Robert Mannyng's ''Chronicle'' may be the source of this association. It is not clear if the name ''Rhymer'' was his actual surname or merely a sobriquet. In literature, he appears as the protagonist in the tale about Thomas the Rhymer carried off by the " Queen of Elfland" and returned having gained the gift of prophecy, as well as the inability to tell a lie. The tale survives in a medieval verse romance in five manuscripts, as well as in the popular ballad "Thomas Rhymer" (Child Ballad number 37).Child Ballad #37. "Thomas the Rymer", The romance occurs as "Thomas off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sails Of Silver
''Sails of Silver'' is the eleventh studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. It was released in 1980 by Chrysalis Records. The album was produced two years after the band's ostensible break-up. At the request of Chrysalis Records Peter Knight and Bob Johnson both returned, replacing their own replacements Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick, who departed after the release of ''Live at Last''. Despite being produced by Elton John's producer Gus Dudgeon, ''Sails of Silver'' was a commercial failure, and this proved a final straw for Tim Hart, who departed the band, leaving Maddy Prior as the band's sole remaining founding member. Although the band now sported the same line-up that had brought it to the height of its success, ''Sails of Silver'' has often been seen as embodying a different spirit from their classic albums of the 1970s. Prior to ''Sails of Silver'', the band had always performed songs written by other people, predominantly traditional songs, but also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hark! The Village Wait
''Hark! The Village Wait'' is the debut album by the British folk rock band Steeleye Span, first released in 1970. It is the only album to feature the original lineup of the band as they broke up and reformed with an altered membership immediately after its release, without ever having performed live. Therefore, it is one of only two Steeleye Span studio albums to feature two female vocalists (Maddy Prior and Gay Woods), the other being ''Time'' (1996). A similar sound was apparent years later when Prior teamed up with June Tabor to form Silly Sisters. Overall, the album's sound is essentially folk music with rock drumming and bass guitar added to some of the songs. The banjo features prominently on several tracks, including "Blackleg Miner", "Lowlands of Holland" and "One Night as I Lay on My Bed". The album's title refers not to the act of waiting, but to a ''wait'', a small body of wind instrumentalists employed by a town at public charge from Tudor times until the early 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back In Line
''Back in Line'' is the twelfth studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. The album was released in 1986, after a hiatus of almost 6 years. It is their first album without founding member Tim Hart, who quit the music business entirely. It is also the last album they recorded with Maddy Prior's husband, Rick Kemp, until ''They Called Her Babylon''; Kemp suffered a shoulder injury that forced him to stop playing for a long time. Like the previous album, ''Sails of Silver'', this album was not well received by fans, and reviews tend to see the album as being slickly packaged but erratic in quality. Jon Herman of the ''Boston Phoenix'' wrote that both the album and the band's 20 June 1987 performance at the Berklee Performance Center "confirmed their status as a has-been quintet still stabbing at artiness." A single was released from this album - "Somewhere in London/ Lanercost". This suggests that "Somewhere in London" was recorded on the same sessions as the album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackleg Miner
"Blackleg Miner" is a 19th-century English folk song, originally from Northumberland (as can be deduced from the dialect in the song and the references in it to the villages of Seghill and Seaton Delaval). Its Roud number is 3193. The song is one of the most controversial English folk songs owing to its depiction of violence against strikebreakers. Origins The song is believed to originate from the miners' lockout of 1844. Although this was a national lock-out, the language of the song suggests that it refers to the dispute in the north-east coalfield, which lasted roughly 20 weeks. The lockout largely collapsed as a result of "blackleg" labour. The village of Seghill, mentioned in the song, was the site of a mass eviction of striking miners during the 1844 lockout. Thomas Burt wrote of the situation: The song depicts the determined, uncompromising stance against strikebreakers adopted by unionized strikers. The term ''blackleg'' for a strikebreaker has its origins in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Man Mop, Or Mr
Ten, TEN or 10 may refer to: * 10, an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11 * one of the years 10 BC, AD 10, 1910 and 2010 * October, the tenth month of the year Places * Mount Ten, in Vietnam * Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA code), China * 10 (Los Angeles Railway) * TEN Atlantic City, Casino hotel resort in New Jersey People and characters * Tussenvoegsel prefix in Dutch surnames * Jeremy Ten (born 1989), Canadian competitive figure skater * Sergey Ten (born 1976), Russian politician * Vicente Ten (born 1966), Spanish politician * Ten Miyagi (born 2001), Japanese footballer ;Characters * Ten, a character from ''Urusei Yatsura'' * Tenshinhan, nicknamed "Ten", a character from ''Dragon Ball'' Art and entertainment Music * Ten (singer), a Thai Chinese singer and member of South Korean boy group NCT * Ten (band), a British melodic rock/hard rock band * ''Tenuto'' or ''Ten.'', a direction in musical notation * Ten, the runner-up contestant in the fourth season of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
