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Evensong (album)

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Released
  
1970

Length
  
33:53

Evensong (1970)
  
Fantasia Lindum (1971)

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
Island Records

Recorded
  
Island Studios

The Amazing Blondel (1970)
  
Evensong (1970)

Artist
  
Amazing Blondel

Producer
  
Paul Samwell-Smith

Genre
  
Baroque pop

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Similar
  
Fantasia Lindum, Blondel, England

Evensong was the second album released by the band Amazing Blondel. It featured the style of music which they described as "pseudo-Elizabethan/Classical acoustic music sung with British accents".

Contents

By this time, the band were touring Britain extensively as part of a package of artists supporting major bands such as Free, and their contrasting style coupled with bawdy anecdotes between songs found favour with rock audiences.

The gatefold album cover shows the band in the cloisters of Lincoln Cathedral holding period instruments, while the interior lists credits and lyrics for the songs surrounding a photograph of the band in performance.

Track listing

All songs credited to Gladwin except where specified.

Side one

  1. "Pavan" (3:20)
  2. "St. Crispin's Day" (2:28)
  3. "Spring Season" (3:38)
  4. "Willowood" (3:22)
  5. "Evensong" (3:10)
  6. "Queen of Scots" (Baird) (1:40)

Side two

  1. "Ploughman" (3:05)
  2. "Old Moot Hall" (2:38)
  3. "Lady Marion's Galliard" (3:44)
  4. "Under the Greenwood Tree" (3:15)
  5. "Anthem" (2:52)

Personnel

  • John David Gladwin - lead vocals, lute, theorboe, cittern, double bass
  • Terence Alan Wincott - crumhorn, recorders, pipe-organ, vocals (and occasional lead vocals), tabor pipe, tabor, flute, harmonium, lute, harpsichord
  • Edward Baird - lute, cittern, vocals (and very occasional lead vocals)
  • Chris Karan - percussion
  • Adam Skeaping - viola da gamba, violone
  • Songs

    1Pavan3:25
    2St Crispin's Day2:23
    3Spring Season3:42

    References

    Evensong (album) Wikipedia