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June Tabor: Ashore (Topic TSCD577)

Ashore
June Tabor

Topic Records TSCD577 (CD, UK, 21 February 2011)

June Tabor: Ashore (Topic TSCD577)

Recorded in April 2010 at Red Kite Studio, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, Wales;
Audio engineering by Martin Levan;
Photographs by Judith Burrows;
Selkie mask made by Yvonne Baker;
Design by David Suff

Musicians

June Tabor: vocals;
Andy Cutting: diatonic accordion;
Mark Emerson: violin, viola;
Tim Harries: double bass;
Huw Warren: piano

Tracks

  1. Finisterre (6.20)
  2. The Bleacher Lassie of Kelvinhaugh (Roud 3325; G/D 5:1041) (4.07)
  3. The Grey Funnel Line (5.27)
  4. Le Vingt-Cinquième Du Mois d’Octobre (5.38)
  5. Shipbuilding (4.07)
  6. Jamaica (3.13)
  7. The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (Roud 197; Child 113) (7.15)
  8. Winter Comes In / Vidlin Voe (4.52)
  9. The Oggie Man (3.42)
  10. I’ll Go and Enlist for a Sailor (Roud 1614) (3.08)
  11. The Brean Lament (5.18)
  12. Le Petit Navire (4.15)
  13. Across the Wide Ocean (11.49)

All track trad. arr. except
Track 1 Ian Telfer;
Tracks 3, 9 Cyril Tawney;
Track 5 Declan MacManus (Elvis Costello), Clive Langer;
Track 8a words Jack Renwick, music Ronald Jamieson;
Track 8b Frank Jamieson;
Track 12 words Les Barker