''Cogs, Wheels & Lovers'' is the twenty-first studio album by

British folk rock British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s. Though the merging of folk and rock music came from several sources, it is widely regarded that the ...

band

Steeleye Span Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival, and we ...

. It was released on 26 October 2009. It is the band's fourth studio album to feature the line-up of

Maddy Prior Madelaine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the police dr ...

, Peter Knight,

Rick Kemp Frederick Stanley 'Rick' Kemp (born 15 November 1941) is an English bass player, guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and record producer, best known for his work with the British folk rock band Steeleye Span. Projects In the 1960s, he shot to prom ...

, Ken Nicol and

Liam Genockey Liam Genockey (born 12 August 1948) is an Irish musician, who is the drummer with British folk rock band Steeleye Span. Biography Genockey was born in Dublin, Ireland. During the 1960s he lived in Plymouth, Devon, U.K, playing in local semi-p ...

. The songs on the album are entirely traditional pieces. As such, this album marks a return to the band's early pattern of recording modern arrangements of traditional songs, and marks a departure of its tendency, demonstrated since the early 1980s, of doing both traditional songs and songs they wrote themselves. ''Cogs, Wheels and Lovers'' was the last album to feature guitarist Ken Nicol.

Personnel

;Steeleye Span *

- vocals * Peter Knight - violin, vocals *

- bass, vocals * Ken Nicol - guitar, vocals *

- drums, percussion

Track listing

# "Gallant Frigate Amphitrite" # "Locks and Bolts" # "Creeping Jane" # "Just as the Tide" # "Ranzo" # "The Machiner's Song" # "Our Captain Cried" # "Two Constant Lovers" # "Madam will you Walk" # "

The Unquiet Grave "The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man's grief over the death of his true love is so deep that it disturbs her eternal sleep. It was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child as Child Ballad number 78. One of the more comm ...

" # "Thornaby Woods", followed by the 'hidden track', "

The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" or "The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry" is a traditional folk song from Shetland and Orkney. A woman has her child taken away by its father, the great selkie of Sule Skerry which can transform from a seal into a hum ...

References

Steeleye Span albums 2009 albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub