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The last album by The Watersons, from 1981 and in keeping with its title, the album focuses on songs of country life. The splendid original album with Lal, Mike and Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy is augmented with solo tracks from Mike, and solo and duet tracks from Lal and Norma. Tracks; 1 Stormy Winds / 2 Sedgefield Fair / 3 Fare Thee Well, Cold Winter / 4 The Wensleydale Lad / 5 Young Banker / 6 While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping / 7 The Prickle-Holly Bush / 8 We'll All Go A-Hunting Today / 9 The Unfortunate Lass / 10 The Brisk Lad 11 Hares in the Old Plantation / 12 Rosebuds in June / 13 The Furze Field / 14 I Went to Market / 15 Three Pretty Maidens / 16 The Lincolnshire Shepherd / 17 The Brave Ploughboy
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Green Fields is an outstanding release from the wonderful Watersons. After success in the 1960s Sisters Norma and Lal Waterson and their Brother Mike together with their cousin John Harrison went through a line up change in the 1970s when Harrison left and was replaced by Bernie Vickers who later also left and was replaced by Martin Carthy. Then after success with the albums Four Pence and Spicy ale, For Pence and Spicy Aleand Sound, sound your instrument of joy Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joyand non group projects such as True hearted Girl by Lal and Norma Waterson A True Hearted Girl and solo album Mike Waterson Mike WatersonThe group made this final album together as The Watersons.
This CD version of the original album has been padded out. Or to put it another way it has been expanded. Track four and ten are actually from the previously mentioned solo album called Mike Waterson. And track 9 is from the previously mentioned album True Hearted Girl by Lal and Norma Waterson, The other tracks 1,2,3,5.6.7.8,11-17 are from the original album.
The album is rich in the beauty of English Traditional Folk Songs. The distinctive harmony sound of the group is on excellent form with some fabulous songs. The album celebrates country life and the working jobs in the country. There are songs that celebrates the work of shepherds and their songs.(Stormy Winds) and (The Lincolnshire Shepherd )There is also a song about those that would build the embankment walls from stone. (Young Banker) And songs about gamekeepers (The gamekeeper lies sleeping), hunting, (We'll go a hunting today), Poaching (hares in the old plantation) and plough work (The Brave Ploughboy)
There is a wonderful recording of the ever-impressive traditional song Rosebuds in June, and an equally impressive version of The Prickle Holly Bush.
The original album dates from 1981 and the sound is very good. Topic records have done a fine job with this re issue of a great album and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes the Watersons or Martin Carthy.
This album is an important release of a now classic line up of an important group. The album is also a good record of English Traditional Folk Songs.
This CD version of the original album has been padded out. Or to put it another way it has been expanded. Track four and ten are actually from the previously mentioned solo album called Mike Waterson. And track 9 is from the previously mentioned album True Hearted Girl by Lal and Norma Waterson, The other tracks 1,2,3,5.6.7.8,11-17 are from the original album.
The album is rich in the beauty of English Traditional Folk Songs. The distinctive harmony sound of the group is on excellent form with some fabulous songs. The album celebrates country life and the working jobs in the country. There are songs that celebrates the work of shepherds and their songs.(Stormy Winds) and (The Lincolnshire Shepherd )There is also a song about those that would build the embankment walls from stone. (Young Banker) And songs about gamekeepers (The gamekeeper lies sleeping), hunting, (We'll go a hunting today), Poaching (hares in the old plantation) and plough work (The Brave Ploughboy)
There is a wonderful recording of the ever-impressive traditional song Rosebuds in June, and an equally impressive version of The Prickle Holly Bush.
The original album dates from 1981 and the sound is very good. Topic records have done a fine job with this re issue of a great album and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes the Watersons or Martin Carthy.
This album is an important release of a now classic line up of an important group. The album is also a good record of English Traditional Folk Songs.
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Superb Final Album from the Watersons
16 Jan 2004
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This was the final full-length album recorded by the Watersons, and while it is not one of their most accessible recordings, it is one of their most rewarding. Not as immediately appealing as some of the other albums (notably FROST AND FIRE and FOR PENCE AND SPICY ALE -- their two acknowledged masterpieces), it rewards the patient listener. Its beauties reveal themselves after repeated listenings: such as the subtle major-minor shift on the chorus of "Prickle-Holly Bush" (the only Watersons' song, by the way, on which Martin Carthy sings lead vocal), the infectious melody of "Young Banker," and the rascally pathos of "Hare's in the Old Plantation." The Watersons' repute would have suffered little had they never recorded this album, for indeed, their greatest, most influential recordings were already behind them. But this final album remains an lesser-known masterpiece and a fitting farewell to one of the most original choral folk groups of the entire folk revival.
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