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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Mining for Songs | |||
| 2. Mother England | |||
| 3. Jeff Sturgeon's / I Like You, You're Common / When Lenny met Andy met | |||
| 4. Cecil's Greatest Hits Vol.1 | |||
| 5. Dear Kimber | |||
| 6. Lover's Lament | |||
| 7. The CooCoo Bird | |||
| 8. Meadows of Dan | |||
| 9. Ol' Groudhog | |||
| 10. Black Mountain Lullaby | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Mining for Songs | |||
| 2. Mother England | |||
| 3. Jeff Sturgeon's; I Like You, You're Common; When Lenny met Andy met Patsy | |||
| 4. Cecil's Greatest Hits Vol.1 | |||
| 5. Dear Kimber | |||
| 6. Lover's Lament | |||
| 7. The CooCoo Bird | |||
| 8. Meadows of Dan | |||
| 9. Ol' Groudhog | |||
| 10. Black Mountain Lullaby | |||
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Unique collaboration between Steve Knightley, Jim Moray, Andy Cutting, Patsy Reid, Kathryn Roberts, Caroline Herring, Kathryn Roberts and Leonard Podolak CD with bonus DVD On March 18th 2011, eight artists -- Steve Knightley, Jackie Oates, Andy Cutting, Caroline Herring, Jim Moray, Patsy Reid, Leonard Podolak and Kathryn Roberts -- gathered together at Henley Farmhouse in Shropshire for a seven day residential, with an artistic brief to create new works that have a 'resonance and relevance' to legendary song collector Cecil Sharp, and, in particular, the Appalachian travels and song collecting he undertook in America between 1915-1918. The residential was immediately followed by three concerts (one in Shrewsbury, and two in London; the latter at Cecil Sharp House in Camden. The group and songs were recorded, and then mixed and produced by Stu Hanna (of folk duo Megson). The result is the brand new ’Cecil Sharp Project’ CD & DVD Guardian Concert Review, Robin Denselow (**** 4 stars) ’it worked because the songs were unexpectedly varied and the mood bravely and cheerfully non-reverential…It was a Who's Who of the new British folk scene…The new songs ranged from the poignant to the critical. 'Ghost of Songs' was a moving tribute to those who gave Sharp their songs’ The project was a joint commission between Shrewsbury Folk Festival and EFDSS Ads in Songlines and back page cover of fRoots Special performances 22nd January 2012 St George’s, Bristol 23rd January 2012 Buxton Opera House, Buxton 24th January 2012 Derby Theatre, Derby 25th January 2012 Celtic Connections, Glasgow 26th January 2012 Burnley Mechanics, Burnley 27th January 2012 Cecil Sharp House, London
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Amazingly most of the songs on this album were written, arranged, rehearsed and recorded in a week ready for performances at Cecil Sharp House in Camden and at Shrewsbury where the project was conceived as part of the Shrewsbury Folk Festival. I say amazingly because, with a couple of exceptions they are remarkably well developed and sound older than their conception would have allowed. A few of them are arrangements of traditional songs collected by Cecil Sharp during his well-documented and ruthless pursuit of songs across the hills and mountains of Appalachia. Stars in this category are the much recorded The CooCoo Bird lead by the marvellous claw-hammer banjo of Leonard Podolak and Child's Song - Barbara Allen beautifully lead by Kathryn Roberts. Great performances here from the entire eight piece ensemble with Roberts, Jackie Oates, Patsy Reid and the wonderful Andy Cutting to the fore.
The DVD re-creates the CD with a couple of additional tracks but is notable for the between-song-introductions which shed some light on the origins of the songs and on the antics of Sharp on his acquisitive travels. The whole performance is natural, accomplished and achieved in a mood which is not overly reverential. It looks like the performers had fun writing and performing the songs and although the audience in Shrewsbury never seems quite to adopt the sense of enjoyment pervading the performers it was clearly a great night.
This is a great set and great value - although a couple of the songs will not perhaps stand any test of longevity, the quality of performances will ensure that the rest get many plays and while the DVD is not one of the great concert movies (the performers sit in a line and, - spoiler alert - but for a bit of impromptu morris dancing as part of the encore, don't move much) it does offer faithful reproductions of the songs and engender a general feeling of longing to have been there on the night. Highly recommended.
The DVD re-creates the CD with a couple of additional tracks but is notable for the between-song-introductions which shed some light on the origins of the songs and on the antics of Sharp on his acquisitive travels. The whole performance is natural, accomplished and achieved in a mood which is not overly reverential. It looks like the performers had fun writing and performing the songs and although the audience in Shrewsbury never seems quite to adopt the sense of enjoyment pervading the performers it was clearly a great night.
This is a great set and great value - although a couple of the songs will not perhaps stand any test of longevity, the quality of performances will ensure that the rest get many plays and while the DVD is not one of the great concert movies (the performers sit in a line and, - spoiler alert - but for a bit of impromptu morris dancing as part of the encore, don't move much) it does offer faithful reproductions of the songs and engender a general feeling of longing to have been there on the night. Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Fantastic ensemble performance and barely a weak track on the album. The duet singing of Jim Moray and his sister Jackie Oates is outstanding and Caroline Herring is a revelation. The package icluding a DVD of the whole work is great value.
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Novel idea. Nicely done and some really good Tunes & Songs.
Just right to settle down to on a cold Winter's evening with a glass of wine. Read more
Just right to settle down to on a cold Winter's evening with a glass of wine. Read more
Published 6 months ago by A. J. Edwards
massively disappointed
I was really looking forward to this so very disappointed when the second disk wouldn't open. Had the same problem with the replacement disk so haven't been able to hear it and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lorraine
Excellent CD and DVD double pack of new songs from some of the finest...
Following on from the 2009 Darwin Song Project, Shrewsbury Folk Festival and EFDSS teamed up to commission a brand new set of songs based on the American travels of English folk... Read more
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