Summer Solstice

Artist: Tim Hart & Maddy Prior
Label: Shanachie
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351794628
EAN: 0016351794628
ASIN: B000000E7B

Release Date: 1991-09-30

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Tracks:

False Knight On The Road
Bring Us In Good Ale
Of All The Birds
I Live Not Where I Love
The Ploughboy And The Cockney
Westron Wynde
Sorry The Day I Was Married
Dancing At Whitsun
Fly Up My Cock
Cannily Cannily
Adam Catched Eve
Three Drunken Maidens
Serving Girls Holiday

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Customer Reviews:

+ 1/2 stars...English Folk At Its Finest.......2004-11-10

Before forming Steeleye Span with Ashley Hutchings in 1969, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior had recorded two albums, FOLK SONGS OF OLDE ENGLAND VOL. 1 and VOL. 2 in 1968. After recording the first three Steeleye Span albums, Hart and Prior returned to the studio in 1972 to record this minor classic of traditional English Folk.

Unlike the rock elements (drums and electric guitars) introduced into Steeleye Span recordings, this is an unplugged affair with Hart on guitars and dulcimer. Vocal chores are split between Hart and Prior, sometimes singing solo (Prior on the delicate "The False Knight on the Road" and "I Live Not Where I Love," Hart on "The Ploughboy and the Cockney" and the haunting "Dancing at Whitsun") and occasionally singing duet ("Of All the Birds," "Westron Wynde," "Sorry the Day I Was Married" and "Adam Catched Eve").

Hart and Prior are augmented by Andy Irvine on mandolin (he would later form the celtic band Planxty), John Ryan on string bass, Gerry Conway on percussion and bells, and Pat Donaldson on electric bass.

All told, this is English folk of the highest order. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Ahh! Maddy!.......2004-06-24

This will be a brief and short review: Buy this album! -- the track "Dancing At Whitsun" is more than worth the price of this cd! It is perhaps the best track you wil; ever hear on any cd by an artist of any genre! I love it! Maddy Prior and Tim Hart have made a great contributioin to celtic/folk/rock traditional music in Steeleye Span . . . and this is equal to anything they did in that group! :)

The heart of Steeleye Span strike again.......2000-07-12

Two of the core members of Steeleye Span get together to share more progressive English folk music. Maddy Prior & Tim Hart have been with Steeleye Span since the beginning and it really shows! There polished repartee is a lot lighter on electrical instruments and has more vocals than most Steeley Span music. THIS IS A MUST HAVE CD!

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