The Works is the sixth album by folk duo Spiers and Boden

Spiers and Boden

Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays melodeon and concertina, while Jon Boden sings and plays fiddle and guitar while stamping the rhythm on a stomp box.-Biography:...

. It was made to celebrate 10 years working together. It features re-recorded tracks from their previous albums. The album also features a number of special guests.

Track listing

1. Tom Padget
2. Horn Fair
   Ebernoe Horn Fair
   Ebernoe Horn Fair is held in the small Sussex village of Ebernoe, the location of which is about five miles north of Petworth . The fair is held annually on Saint James's Day, 25 July. The tradition is centuries old though it appears to have been revived in 1864 after a long lapse...
   
   
3. Gooseberry Bush/Laudanum Bunches
4. The Birth of Robin Hood
5. The Cheshire Waltz
6. Brown Adam
   Brown Adam
   -Synopsis:Brown Adam, a smith, is exiled from his family. He builds a house in the woods for himself and his lady. One day, he goes hunting. He returns home to find his lady with a knight—or king's son—trying to persuade her to leave Brown Adam. She refuses many rich bribes; she will stay with...
   
   
7. Rochdale Coconut Dance
8. Old Maui
   Rolling Down to Old Maui
   Rolling Down to Old Maui is a traditional sea song which has been performed and recorded by many folksingers, including Stan Rogers. The song expresses the anticipation of the crew of a whaling vessel on its return to Maui after a season of whaling in the Kamchatka Sea.The song's earliest known...
   
   
9. Haul Away
10. Bold Sir Rylas
11. Prickle-Eye Bush
    The Maid Freed from the Gallows
    "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" is one of many titles of a centuries-old folk song about a condemned maiden pleading for someone to buy her freedom from the executioner. In the collection of ballads compiled by Francis James Child, it is indexed as Child Ballad number 95; eleven variants, some...
    
    

Personnel

Personnel	Instruments	Tracks
Jon Boden Jon Boden Jon Boden is an multi-instrumental musician and English folk singer.-Career:Boden plays fiddle as part of the duo Spiers and Boden, the band Bellowhead and up until 2007, Eliza Carthy's band The Ratcatchers. In 2009 he toured with his new backing band The Remnant Kings. He has also written a...	vocals, fiddle Fiddle The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music... , guitar Guitar The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... , Stomp Box Stomp box thumb|Puck'n Stompa by PetermanA stomp box or stompbox is a simple percussion instrument consisting of a small wooden box placed under the foot, which is tapped or stamped on rhythmically to produce a sound similar to that of a bass drum. A stomp box allows a performer such as a singer or guitar...	All
John Spiers John Spiers John Spiers is an English melodeon, concertina and bandonion player.-Career:He plays with the duo Spiers and Boden and the band Bellowhead, and used to be a part of Eliza Carthy's old band The Ratcatchers.-Personal life:...	vocals, melodeon Diatonic button accordion A diatonic button accordion or melodeon is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys... , concertina Concertina A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it...	All
Nancy Kerr Nancy Kerr Nancy Kerr is an English folk musician, specialising in the fiddle and singing. She is the daughter of London-born singer-songwriter Sandra Kerr and Northumbrian piper Ron Elliott....	vocals, fiddle Fiddle The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...	Tom Padget, Old Maui
James Fagan James Fagan James Fagan is a folk musician from Sydney, Australia. He in a singer and multi-instrumentalist specialising in the Irish bouzouki....	vocals, Bouzouki Bouzouki The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...	Tom Padget, Old Maui
Sam Sweeney Sam Sweeney Sam Sweeney is a multi-instrumental English folk musician.-Career:Sam has been playing fiddle since he was six, he now plays and teaches fiddle. Since 2002 Sweeney has been at the forefront of East Midlands-based folk band Kerfuffle, playing fiddle, viola, and cajon, and singing...	Percussion, fiddle Fiddle The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...	Tom Padget, The Birth of Robin Hood, The Cheshire Waltz, Haul Away
Hannah James Hannah James and Sam Sweeney Hannah James and Sam Sweeney are an English folk duo, comprising Hannah James and Sam Sweeney .-History:...	clogging Clogging Clogging is a type of folk dance with roots in traditional European dancing, early African-American dance, and traditional Cherokee dance in which the dancer's footwear is used musically by striking the heel, the toe, or both in unison against a floor or each other to create audible percussive... , accordion Accordion The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....	Tom Padget, The Birth of Robin Hood
Maddy Prior Maddy Prior Maddy Prior is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.-Early life:...	vocals	Horn Fair, Bold Sir Rylas
Martin Carthy Martin Carthy Martin Carthy MBE is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days...	guitar Guitar The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...	Gooseberry Bush/Laudanum Bunches, Prickle-Eye Bush
Eliza Carthy Eliza Carthy Eliza Carthy is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson.-Life and career:...	vocals, fiddle Fiddle The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...	The Birth of Robin Hood, Haul Away, Bold Sir Rylas
Andy Cutting Andy Cutting Andy Cutting is an English folk musician and composer. Born 18 March 1969 in Harrow, he plays melodeon and has had instruments made by Castagnari to his own specification. He won the Folk Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 and 2011...	melodeon Diatonic button accordion A diatonic button accordion or melodeon is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys...	The Cheshire Waltz, Bold Sir Rylas
Martin Simpson Martin Simpson Martin Simpson is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in the British Isles, America and beyond.-Biography:...	guitar Guitar The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...	Horn Fair, Brown Adam
Fay Hield Fay Hield -Career:Hield was part of The Witches of Elswick, with whom she recorded two CDs in their four years together.Fay and her partner Jon Boden run two folk clubs – Royal Traditions and Bright Phoebus ....	vocals	Old Maui, Haul Away, Bold Sir Rylas, Prickle-Eye Bush
Ian Giles	vocals	Old Maui, Haul Away, Bold Sir Rylas, Prickle-Eye Bush
Peter Coe	vocals	Old Maui, Haul Away, Bold Sir Rylas, Prickle-Eye Bush
David Kosky	Tenor Banjo	Haul Away

Limited Edition

500 copies of the album have been made to celebrate their 10th anniversary, these have been available to purchase at some concerts on the 2011 Spring tour. The sleeve notes on the album are written by Colin Irwin, it is not known if regular edition will also contain the same ones.