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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Roots | |||
| 2. Are We Alright | |||
| 3. Exile | |||
| 4. Country Life | |||
| 5. Widecombe Fair | |||
| 6. The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe | |||
| 7. Santiago | |||
| 8. Armadas | |||
| 9. The Blue Cockade | |||
| 10. Crow on the Cradle | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Columbus (Didn’t Find America) | |||
| 2. You’re Mine | |||
| 3. The Blind Fiddler | |||
| 4. The Setting / Mary From Dungloe | |||
| 5. The Bristol Slaver | |||
| 6. Port Isaac | |||
| 7. The Train / Blackwaterside | |||
| 8. Be Lucky | |||
| 9. Longdog | |||
| 10. The Keeper | |||
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Product Description
Songlines magazine, March 2008 (#50)
This is a great `Best Of'. The first CD is packed with some of the Devon folk duo's most distinctive tracks from their 15-year partnership, shot through with the fiery liberal patriotism of Knightley's lyrics about the rural West Country (`Roots' and `Country Life'). The second disc consists of 14 tracks selected by fans from the `Longdogs' internet forum, a nice idea that throws up some real gems. What's more, this collection is interspersed with live recordings that lift the energy above the predictability of many `Best Of' albums.
Phil Beer's fiddle playing is sensational, particularly on `The Falmouth Packet/Haul Away Joe', where his furious strings conjure up the boats bobbing in Falmouth harbour. While there are a couple of more abstract love songs (`Are We Alright?' and `You're Mine') that feel weaker than the rest, in the main Knightley's storytelling is full of depth and character. It is a cold heart that is not stirred by the hard tales of `Widecombe Fair', `The Keeper' and `The Bristol Slaver', or the Spanish warmth of `Santiago' and `Armadas', or the Cornish pride in `Cousin Jack'. The take on Sydney Carter's `Crow on the Cradle' is haunting, and when double bass player Miranda Sykes joins Knightley on vocals for `The Blue Cockade' there is a new dimension to the band's sound. It is in these little details that Show of Hands comes to life. The setting of Charles Causley's poem to music in `Innocents' Song' will stay with you long after the music stops.
Nathaniel Handy
Phil Beer's fiddle playing is sensational, particularly on `The Falmouth Packet/Haul Away Joe', where his furious strings conjure up the boats bobbing in Falmouth harbour. While there are a couple of more abstract love songs (`Are We Alright?' and `You're Mine') that feel weaker than the rest, in the main Knightley's storytelling is full of depth and character. It is a cold heart that is not stirred by the hard tales of `Widecombe Fair', `The Keeper' and `The Bristol Slaver', or the Spanish warmth of `Santiago' and `Armadas', or the Cornish pride in `Cousin Jack'. The take on Sydney Carter's `Crow on the Cradle' is haunting, and when double bass player Miranda Sykes joins Knightley on vocals for `The Blue Cockade' there is a new dimension to the band's sound. It is in these little details that Show of Hands comes to life. The setting of Charles Causley's poem to music in `Innocents' Song' will stay with you long after the music stops.
Nathaniel Handy
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Roots is a comprehensive Show of Hands collection: it includes thirty of their best-loved songs on a specially produced double CD all remastered with a casebound book package.
For CD one of this compilation, the band have chosen their favourite tracks from each of the studio albums, plus live versions of three songs, "The Blue Cockade", "Cousin Jack" and "The Galway Farmer" that were felt to improve on the recorded versions. Four songs that have become concert standards yet hitherto never available in definitive studio versions have been re-recorded: "Crow On The Cradle", "Santiago", "Are We Alright" and "Exile".
Ten years ago a group of fans created an Internet based forum and called themselves 'Longdogs' after a Show of Hands favourite. The band asked these dedicated fans to pick one track from each Show of Hands album and CD two of this collection is result of their choices.
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