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Recorded
  
May 3, 2002

Past Times with Good Company (2002)
  
Ghost of a Rose (2003)

Release date
  
22 October 2002

Label
  
Steamhammer

Length
  
1:49:28

Artist
  
Black's Night

Producer
  
Ritchie Black

Genres
  
Hard rock, Celtic music

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Released
  
October 22, 2002 (Germany) February 20, 2003 (US)

Similar
  
Black's Night albums, Hard rock albums

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For the English folk song written by King Henry VIII, see Pastime with Good Company.

Contents

Past Times with Good Company is a double live album by the band Blackmore's Night, recorded in May 2002 in Groningen, the Netherlands. It was released in October 2002 in Europe and in February 2003 in the USA and Canada. The European version includes a Greek rendition of "Home Again" and extra live tracks recorded at a press show in Solingen, Germany. CD 2 of the special Limited Edition leather-bound hard-cover package includes two bonus tracks: an acoustic "Fires At Midnight" and "Home Again" sung in Greek. The album's title is a homage to the 16th century English folk song "Pastime with Good Company", composed by King Henry VIII, and performed in a special 2-part arrangement by Blackmore's Night on this recording. "Fires At Midnight" is another piece with a royal lineage, attributed to King Alphonso X of Spain.

Disc one

  1. "Shadow of the Moon" (10:56)
  2. "Play Minstrel Play" (4:34)
  3. "Minstrel Hall" (5:43)
  4. "Past Time with Good Company" (7:04)
  5. "Fires at Midnight" (12:28)
  6. "Under a Violet Moon" (5:01)
  7. "Soldier of Fortune" (4:21)

Disc 2

  1. "16th Century Greensleeves" (4:44)
  2. "Beyond the Sunset" (5:28)
  3. "Morning Star" (6:09)
  4. "Home Again" (6:32)
  5. "Renaissance Faire" (5:07)
  6. "I Still Remember" (7:03)
  7. "Durch den Wald zum Bachhaus" (3:11)
  8. "Writing on the Wall" (6:00)
German release limited edition bonus tracks
  1. "Fires at Midnight" (Acoustic) (9:50)
  2. "Home Again" (Sung in Greek) (5:17)
Additional tracks on Japanese release
  1. "Memmingen" (2:18)

Personnel

  • Ritchie Blackmore - electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola, hurdy-gurdy, Renaissance drum
  • Candice Night - vocals, shawn, rauschpfeife, tambourine, pennywhistle, cornamuse
  • Sir Robert of Normandie (Bob Curiano) - bass, rhythm guitar, harmony vocals
  • Carmine Giglio - keyboards, harmony vocals
  • Squire Malcolm of Lumley - drums
  • Kevin Dunne - drums on 16th Century Greensleeves
  • Lady Rraine - harmony vocals
  • Chris Devine - violin, recorder, mandolin

    • Covers

    Two of the tracks on this album are covers from Ritchie Blackmore's earlier bands.

  • "Soldier of Fortune" is a Deep Purple song, from their Stormbringer album.
  • "16th Century Greensleeves" comes from Rainbow's Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow debut album.

    • Songs

    1Shadow of the Moon10:56
    2Play Minstrel Play4:34
    3Minstrel Hall5:43

    References

    Past Times with Good Company Wikipedia
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