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Summer Solstice (album)

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Released
  
1971

Producer
  
Sandy Roberton

Release date
  
1971

Genre
  
Folk music

Length
  
31:39

Artists
  
Maddy Prior, Tim Hart

Label
  
Shanachie Records

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Similar
  
Maddy Prior albums, Other albums

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Summer Solstice is a 1971 album by Maddy Prior and Tim Hart. The album was recorded after the duo had joined Steeleye Span. The songs are mostly pastoral, with subtle understated instrumental accompaniment. It differs from the duo's previous two Folk Songs Of Old England albums in its use of multitracking techniques (both on vocals and instruments), as well as additional flourishes of electric instruments on three tracks. The 1991 CD was issued on the Shanachie label.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks (except 8 and 10) traditional, arranged by Hart and Prior.

  1. False Knight On The Road (3:03)
  2. Bring Us In Good Ale (3:51)
  3. Of All The Birds (0:53)
  4. I Live Not Where I Love (4:25)
  5. The Ploughboy and The Cockney (3:40)
  6. Westron Wynde (0:27)
  7. Sorry The Day I Was Married (1:29)
  8. Dancing At Whitsun (3:40) (by Austin John Marshall, Copper Family)
  9. Fly Up My Cock (1:45)
  10. Cannily Cannily (2:25) (by Ewan MacColl)
  11. Adam Catched Eve (0:25)
  12. Three Drunken Maidens (2:14)
  13. Serving Girls Holiday (3:41)

Musicians

  • Maddy Prior – vocals
  • Tim Hart – vocals, acoustic guitar (1,4,5,8,12), electric guitar (5), acoustic appalachian dulcimer (2,10,13), electric appalachian dulcimer (13), harmonium (2,5), psaltery (2), tabor (13)
  • Andy Irvine – mandolin (10)
  • John Ryan – string bass (10,12)
  • Gerry Conway – percussion (1), bells (2)
  • Pat Donaldson – electric bass (1,5)
  • Robert Kirby – string arrangement (4)

    • Production

  • Producer: Sandy Roberton
  • Engineers: Jerry Boys, Roger Mayer, Vic Gamm
  • Art Direction, illustration: Grahame Berney, Keith Davis
  • Photography: Keith Morris

    • Songs

    1False Knight on the Road3:01
    2Bring Us in Good Ale3:50
    3All of the Birds0:53

    References

    Summer Solstice (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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