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June Tabor & Oysterband: Ragged Kingdom

June Tabor & Oysterband: Ragged Kingdom (Topic TSCD585)

Ragged Kingdom
June Tabor & Oysterband

Topic Records TSCD585 (CD, UK, 19 September 2011)
Westpark Music 87215 (CD, Germany, September 2011)

Love Will Tear Us Apart / Fountains Flowing
June Tabor & Oysterband

Topic Records STOP2012 (7" single, UK Record Store Day, 21 April 2012)

June Tabor & Oysterband: Love Will Tear Us Apart (Topic STOP2012)

Produced and recorded by Al Scott;
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire and Metway Studios, Brighton, February-April 2011;
Package concept and photography: Judith Burrows;
Photographic assistant: Sam Peacock;
Design: Jali Roll Martian

Single A-Side remixed by Al Scott, 29 February 2012;
Single B-Side recorded by Smooth Operations for the BBC Folk Awards 2012 on BBC Radio 2 on 8 February 2012; produced by John Leonard

Musicians

June Tabor: vocals;
John Jones: vocals, melodeon;
Ray Cooper: cello, mandolin, bass guitar, harmonium, vocals;
Dil Davies: drums;
Alan Prosser: guitars, kantele, fiddle, vocals;
Ian Telfer: fiddle;
Al Scott: bass guitar, mandola

Tracks

  1. The Bonny Bunch of Roses (Roud 664; Laws J5; G/D 1:155) (4.59)
  2. That Was My Veil (2.55)
  3. My Son David (Roud 200; Child 13; TYG 35) (3.51)
  4. Love Will Tear Us Apart (3.28)
  5. (When I Was No But) Sweet Sixteen (Roud 5138) (3.03)
  6. Judas (Was a Red-Headed Man) (4.13)
  7. If My Love Loves Me (Roud 30; Child 25; G/D 4:843) (4.58)
  8. The Hills of Shiloh (4.32)
  9. Fountains Flowing (Roud 602) (3.51)
  10. The Leaves of Life (Roud 127) (3.35)
  11. Seven Curses (3.29)
  12. The Dark End of the Street (2.51)

Tracks 1, 3, 5, 9-10 trad.;
Track 2 John Parish, Polly Jean Harvey;
Track 4 Bernard Sumner, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris (Joy Division);
Track 8 Shel Silverstein, Jim Friedman;
Track 11 Bob Dylan;
Track 12 Chips Moman, Dan Penn

Promo Video