Hang Up Sorrow and Care
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Hang Up Sorrow and Care, recorded and released in 1995, is an album by Maddy Prior
with The Carnival Band
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Maddy Prior
Maddy Prior is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.-Early life:...
with The Carnival Band
The Carnival Band (folk group)
The Carnival Band is an English early music group. Their broad repertoire focuses on popular music fromthe 16th and 17th centuries, and traditional music from around the world. Presentation is informal and humorous, and in the spirit of medieval and renaissance Carnival...
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Track listing
- Prodigal's Resolution (Anon 18th century)
- 5 Playford Tunes (from Playford's "English Dancing Master")
- The World is Turned Upside Down (Anon 17th cent)
- Jovial Beggar (Anon 17th cent)
- Leathern Bottle (Anon 17th cent)
- Iantha (Anon English 18th cent)
- An Thou were my ain Thing (Anon Scottish 18th cent)
- Oh that I had but a Fine Man (Pelham Humphry)
- Now O Now I needs must part (John DowlandJohn DowlandJohn Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has...
) - Man is for the Woman made (Henry PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
) - A Northern Catche/The Little Barleycorne (John Hilton/Trad)
- Granny's Delight/My Lady Foster's Delight (Anon 18th cent)
- A Round of Three Country Dances in One (Thomas RavenscroftThomas RavenscroftThomas Ravenscroft was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.He probably sang in the choir of St...
) - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Words: John GayJohn GayJohn Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
/Tune: anon) - In The Days of my Youth (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
- Never weatherbeaten sail (Thomas CampionThomas CampionThomas Campion was an English composer, poet and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.-Life:...
) - Old Simon the King (Anon)
Personnel
- Maddy Prior - vocals
- William Badley - baroque guitar, lute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Davis - Double Bass
- Giles LewinGiles LewinGiles Lewin is a British violinist and bagpiper.He was born in Essex in 1960 or slightly earlier. Aged nine, he sang the female lead in Mozart's "Bastien et Bastienne". At Cambridge University he acquired a love of Irish traditional music. His admiration for William Lawes led him to join a group...
- violin, recorders, hoboy, mandolin, vocals - Andrew Watts - Flemish bagpipes, shalmes, curtals, recorders, melodica, kazoo, vocals
- Rafaello Mizraki - drums, percussion, cello, Hammond organ, vocals
- Arrangements by Andrew Watts