Track Listing
1. Ball Anchor and Chain
2. Yellow Dress
3. Set Their Mouths to Twisting
4. Hanging Tree
5. Flandyke Shore
6. Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump
7. Fasnet Rock Man of War
8. Fiddle on the Washboard
9. Albion Heart
10. Coloures of Love
11. Close Your Eyes
12. Gypsy
13. Ivory Tower
14. Young Man Cut Down in His Prime
15. Jigs the Switchback the New Book The Slippery Slope
16. This Blessed Plot
17. Circle Round the Sun
18. Coming Home to Me
19. Landslide, The
20. Hearts of Coal
21. Death Is Just a Dream No. 1
22. Death Is Just a Dream No. 2
23. Wings
24. Shine on Love
25. Kens Hernpipes
26. Potters Dream, The
27. Listen to the Wind
28. Bedtime at Bryn Rhodyn
29. Welcome to the World
30. Mistletoe Misltetoe
31. As Joseph Was Walking
32. Star, The
| Details | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Albion Band includes: Ashley Hutchings (vocals).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This 32-track anthology features folk rockers the Albion Band includes "Ball, Anchor and Chain," "Yellow Dress," and "Fiddle On The Washboard."
This 32-song double-CD set is full of surprises from the get-go. Folk music on steroids is the way the Albion Band's music is described in the notes to this killer double-CD set, and they're right, at least for the first four tracks on Albion Sunrise. Beginning with the modified Marc Bolan-c**-Chuck Berry lead guitar riff on "Ball, Anchor and Chain," the music on the first four tracks pretty much throws its boldness, wattage, and attitude in your face, doing everything that traditional folk music -- and there is plenty of great fiddle playing here to remind listeners from whence this band came -- isn't supposed to do. What follows is pretty much just as far out there: the boldest, ballsiest British folk-rock -- really rock-folk -- that you're ever likely to hear, even amid the virtuoso mandolin and acoustic guitar playing. But then the music switches gears to a much more traditional-sounding "Flandyke Shore," awash in a haunting lyricism and sensibilities three centuries removed from the preceding songs. Track by track, the effect is spellbinding and dazzling across the two discs, melding sounds akin to Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, et al., into a rich musical whole, all so strong that it's impossible to single out any highlights, although one has to believe that leader Ashley Hutchings is correct in his assessment of those first four cuts -- that, strong as Gillie Nichols and Kellie While are as singers on the later tracks (especially "Welcome to the World," sung by Nichols and Ken Nicol), Julie Matthews fronting the band on those earliest tracks here offered a real shot at a serious rock crossover audience for the group. ~ Bruce Eder
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