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June Tabor June Tabor (born 31 December 1947 in Warwick, England) is an English folk singer known for her solo work and her earlier collaborations with Maddy Prior and with Oysterband. Early life June Tabor was born and grew up in Warwick, England. ...

and

Martin Simpson Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond. He builds a purposeful, often upbeat voi ...

released in 1980 on

Topic Records Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.M. Brocken ...

, catalogue number 12TS410. The album was re-released on CD in UK on Topic Records in 1989 and was released on Green Linnet in the US in 1992. The album was produced by Paul Brown and engineered by John Acock at Millstream Studios,

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and includes a number of traditional songs, as well songs by Roger Watson, Richard Thompson, Peter Bond and

Bill Caddick Lewis Frederick William Caddick (27 June 1944 – 19 November 2018) was an English folk music, folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, particularly noted for his songwriting and as a member of the innovative and influential group Home Service. ...

Reception

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reviewer Rick Anderson awarded the album 4.5 stars. In 2008 the BBC's

Mike Harding Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, writer, broadcaster and musician. Early life and education Harding's father, Louis Arthur "Curly" Harding, a navigator in the RAF, was killed in the Second Worl ...

said: "When you get two wonderful musicians together the end result is not always the sum of the parts ... In this case they obviously pushed each other on to greater things because the end result is magnificent.

Track listing

# "Admiral Benbow" (

Roud The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadsid ...

3141) – 2:41 # "Davy Lowston" (Traditional) – 4:50 # "Flash Company" (Roud 954) – 2:42 # "Number Two Top Seam" (Roger Watson) – 3:11 # "Strange Affair" ( Richard Thompson) – 5:50 # "Heather Down the Moor" (Roud 375; G/D 5:962;

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H177) – 2:48 # "Joe Peel" (Peter Bond) – 3:38 # "Le Roi Renaud" (Traditional) – 6:35 # "Riding Down to Portsmouth" – (Roud 1534) 1:07 # "Unicorns" (

) – 5:09

Personnel

– vocals *

– guitars * Ric Sanders – violin * Dave Bristow – piano, synthesiser * Jon Davie – bass * The Prunettes: Louisa Livingstone, Dik Cadbury, Martin Simpson, Ric Sanders, Dave Bristow, Paul Brown

References

June Tabor albums Martin Simpson albums 1980 albums Topic Records albums {{1980s-folk-album-stub