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Sweet Liberty (album)

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Recorded
  
2002-2003

Artist
  
Cara Dillon

Label
  
Rough Trade America

Length
  
55:29

Release date
  
22 September 2003

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Released
  
22 September 2003 (UK) 23 March 2004 (worldwide)

Producer
  
Sam Lakeman; John Reynolds (track 4)

Sweet Liberty (2003)
  
After the Morning (2006)

Genres
  
Folk music, Celtic music, Pop music, Rock music

Similar
  
Cara Dillon albums, Folk music albums

Sweet Liberty is the second solo album from folk artist Cara Dillon. It was recorded at their home studio in Frome, Somerset. Similar to her debut album, Sweet Liberty was produced and recorded by Sam Lakeman, her husband and musical partner. Additional production was by John Reynolds, who also plays drums on the album and mixed it along with Alan Branch.

Contents

The album features Dillon's popular version of Tommy Sands' folk song on sectarianism and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, "There Were Roses", which was recorded especially for Billy Connolly's TV series Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales. The popularity of Dillon's version of the song led to a BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nomination for Tommy Sands in the Best Original Song category.

Promo 1-track singles of "High Tide", "There Were Roses" and "Everywhere" were sent to radio to encourage airplay of the album. A 4-track album sampler was also released prior to the release of the album, including "Black Is The Colour" and "Blue Mountain River" from Cara Dillon and "There Were Roses" and "Everywhere".

Track listing

All songs traditional/arranged by Dillon/Lakeman, except: 3, 5, 9, 10 (written by Dillon/Lakeman); 1 (written by Dillon/Lakeman/Bigham); 4 (written by Sands); 11 (written by Moynihan/Woods)

  1. "High Tide" – 3:40
  2. "The Winding River Roe" – 4:28
  3. "Everywhere" – 3:24
  4. "There Were Roses" – 4:56
  5. "Where Are You" – 5:15
  6. "The Gem of the Roe" – 2:49
  7. "Bonny Bonny" – 4:29
  8. "Erin the Green" – 3:42
  9. "Broken Bridges" – 6:44
  10. "Falling Like a Star" – 4:36
  11. "Standing on the Shore" – 4:46
  12. "The Emigrant's Farewell" - 5:58

Songs

1High Tide3:42
2The Winding River Roe4:31
3Everywhere3:26

References

Sweet Liberty (album) Wikipedia
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