Wake the Vaulted Echoes

Artist: Peter Bellamy
Label: Free Reed Imports
Category: Music

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Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3

EAN: 5016700909029
ASIN: B0000300JO

Release Date: 2000-09-26

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Tracks:

On Board A '98
Paddy Doyle/Blood Red Roses
Bright Morning Stars
The Bitter Withy
German Musicianer
Young Roger Esquire
A Three Part Song
Oak Ash And Thorn (A Tree Song)
The Looking Glass
Sir Richard's Song
The Way Through The Woods
Peggy Bawn
Nostradamus
Soldiers Three
Tommy
Danny Deever
Gunga Din
Abe Carman (The Robber's Song)
Bill 'Awkins
Soldier Soldier
The Black And Bitter Night
Green Fields Of England

Tracks:

Maid Of Australia
A-roving On A Winter's Night
Long Time Travelling ('White')
Come Write Me Down
Fair Annie
Down The Moor
A Pilgrim's Way
Shallow Brown
The Molecatcher
My Boy Jack
We Have Fed Our Sea
Sir Andrew Barton
The Death Of Nelson
Follow Me 'Ome
Shepherd Of The Downs
Santa Fe Trail
Riding On Top Of The Car
Shepherds, Arise
Bonus Track 1

Tracks:

The Land
Malenka
Exile Song
Motherless Child
Recessional
Back To The Army Again
Way Down Town
Cholera Camp
Slip Jigs And Reels
Tyne Of Harrow
Worried About You
Trees They Do Grow High
Death Is Not The End
Goodbye
The Old Songs
Yarmouth Town

Customer Reviews:

A masterpiece.......2002-11-01

An extraordinary collection of the work of a largely unheralded genius. I followed Bellamy's career from the Young Tradition days onward through his magnificent solo albums, and the seminal Transports collection. His voice was not to everyone's taste, but that can be said of many other singers. His was an extraordinary instrument. The sad circumstances of his death often make this difficult listening, especially on those live cuts from late in his career, when the audiences sound sparse indeed, as compared to the roaring applause following the YT's Bright Morning Star from the late 60's. It is not difficult to imagine how he must have felt as his style and vision fell out of favour. There are, however, treasures aplenty here, and it is a magnificent document of a great life, well lived and well sung. It is also one of the most comprehensive and well-organized box sets I have ever seen, in any genre of music. Buy this record.

Passion, fire, commitment and Kipling.......2001-03-19

I noticed that the only Peter Bellamy albums available in the US seem to be this one and The Transports - both excellent but too much of an investment for the casual buyer. Peter was a wonderful English singer of traditional folk songs who in his commitment, passion and singlemindedness can only be compared to Martin Carthy. But not everyone will love his voice, which was a fairly extreme instrument, very strident, rarely pretty, and often unaccompanied. He wanted the drama of the song to grab you round the throat . He began singing in the mid-60s and quickly formed a three-part harmony group called The Young Tradition which was brilliant, unforgettable, essential, and completely ignored on this box set. They lasted all of two and a half years and he was on his own again. He then discovered Kipling, which became his major obsession until his sad death. He found that many of Kipling's extraordinarily powerful but almost ignored poems could be given traditional tunes and turned into mesmerising songs. So when Peter wasn't singing trad material, he was from 1970 onward singing his Kipling/trad creations. Brilliant albums followed - "Oak, Ash and Thorn", "Merlin's Isle of Gramarye", and especially "The Barrack-Room Ballads" - full of mystery and heartbreak, very powerful songs of a possible past. In many people's eyes he peaked with his "ballad opera" "The Transports", a fine song-cycle, written by Peter and performed by several of the greats of the English folk revival. None of these triumphs, however, won him a large audience. He was always too raw, too unadorned. In the 1980s he was performing to audiences of 50 or less. I once was in an audience of nine. It was a pity, but hardly surprising. As I say this cd box set is really for existing fans who will be thrilled at the vast amount of previously unreleased material and the love and care which has gone into the whole package. It's great and very unexpected. Beginners should certainly start with "Oak Ash and Thorn" or "Won't you Go My Way", any of the solo records from the 1970s. But they're all out of print, of course. If you do track them down, you'll hear a singer with more heart and more fire than a dozen others put together.

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