Label: Making Waves (UK), SPIN CD 130
Style: British Folk Rock, Folk
Country: England
Time: 39:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 224 Mb
The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings. An important grouping in the genre, it has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers in its long and fluid history.
The one constant in the band's history has been the band leader Ashley Hutchings, founding member of two other English folk rock groupings Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, and it has been the home for most of the projects of his long career, though in the 2011 incarnation of the band he has handed over the reins to his son Blair Dunlop. This version continued until 2014.
Hutchings continues to perform in a separate Christmas-themed incarnation (occasionally featuring Dunlop) The Albion Christmas Band that was first established in 2005.
Initially Hutchings formed the band in April 1971 to accompany his then wife the singer Shirley Collins on her No Roses album. Dave Mattacks, Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol (from Fairport Convention), Lal and Mike Waterson (of The Watersons) and Maddy Prior, were among twenty five credited backing musicians. On a short tour, core members were joined by Richard Thompson and his then wife Linda Thompson. Several members contributed with Hutchings to the project Morris On (1972), including John Kirkpatrick, Richard Thompson and Dave Mattacks, and cumbersomely all their names appeared on the album cover.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Albion_Band)
01. Broomfield Hill (03:51)
02. Such A Paradise (04:52)
03. A Vive L'amour, B Masters Of This Hall, C Dirty Harry's Jig (04:23)
04. Orion's Belt (03:18)
05. The Ship (04:08)
06. The Rose And The Rock (03:28)
07. 'til The Time We Meet Again (03:28)
08. The Task (12:27)
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