Trisha Shetty (Editor)

Levelling the Land

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
7 October 1991

Producer
  
Alan Scott

Artist
  
The Levellers

Label
  
China Records

Length
  
44:33

Levelling the Land (1991)
  
Levellers (1993)

Release date
  
September 1991

Genre
  
Folk rock

Levelling the Land httpsimagesnasslimagesamazoncomimagesI6

Recorded
  
1991 at Ridge Farm Studios, Surrey

Similar
  
The Levellers albums, Folk rock albums

Levelling the Land was released in 1991 and is the second full-length album by the Brighton folk-punk group The Levellers. The album reached number 14 in the British album charts and has since gained platinum status through ongoing sales. The original album pressing contained ten tracks but following the success of the single "Fifteen Years", the song was added as track three to later pressings.

Contents

This was the first Levellers album to feature the input of Simon Friend as songwriter, vocalist and musician. He replaced Alan Miles, who had sung and played guitar and mandolin on the previous album, A Weapon Called the Word. "Liberty Song" on this album was co-written by Miles.

Track listing

  • All band members are given writing credits on all the tracks.
    1. "One Way" – 4:08
    2. "The Game" – 3:28
    3. "Fifteen Years" – 3:11
    4. "The Boatman" – 5:56
    5. "Liberty Song" – 4:29 (co-written by original member Alan Miles)
    6. "Far From Home" - 3:22
    7. "Sell Out" – 4:17
    8. "Another Man's Cause" – 4:35
    9. "The Road" – 4:00
    10. "The Riverflow" – 3:02
    11. "Battle of the Beanfield" – 3:41

    The 2007 re-issue of the album also included the bonus tracks:

    1. "Last Days of Winter"
    2. "Dance Before the Storm"
    3. "Hard Fight"
    4. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
    5. "Plastic Jeezus"

    A bonus live disc was recorded at Glastonbury in 1992:

    1. "The Game"
    2. "World Freak Show" (co-written by original member Alan Miles)
    3. "Dance Before the Storm"
    4. "The Boatman"
    5. "Far From Home"
    6. "Sell Out"
    7. "The Riverflow"
    8. "Battle of the Beanfield"
    9. "Jig/Three Friends"
    10. "Liberty Song"
    11. "One Way"
    12. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

    Personnel

  • Mark Chadwick - Lead vocals, guitars, harmonica
  • Simon Friend - Backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 4 and 11, guitars, mandolin, banjo, harmonica
  • Jeremy Cunningham - Bass guitar, album artwork
  • Jonathan Sevink - Fiddle
  • Charlie Heather - Drums/percussion
  • Alan Scott - Producer

    • Songs

    1One Way4:09
    2The Game3:26
    3Fifteen Years3:10

    References

    Levelling the Land Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA