Live at Last (Steeleye Span album)

Live at Last (Steeleye Span album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Live at Last
Type = Live album
Artist = Steeleye Span


Released = 1978
Recorded = March 7 1978
Genre = Electric folk
Length = 49:34
Label = Chrysalis
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h267mpp39f5o link]
Last album = "Storm Force Ten"
(1977)
This album = "Live at Last"
(1978)
Next album = "Sails of Silver"
(1980)

Live at Last is an live album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. It is the first live album the band issued, after nearly a decade of performing and releasing 10 studio albums. It is one of only two albums the band issued on which John Kirkpatrick played (not counting a later live reunion album, The Journey), making it one of only two albums to employ an accordion as a primary instrument. The album is also notable because only two of the tracks, "Saucy Sailor/Black Freighter" and "False Knight on the Road" were songs that the band had recorded before, so that most of the material on the album is essentially new material. The band went on to release a second live version of "The Maid and the Palmer" on 'The Journey'.

The departure of Bob Johnson and Peter Knight and their replacement by Martin Carthy and Kirkpatrick had taken the band in a new, softer direction. During its mid-70s heyday, the band was well-known for its heavily-amplified rock sound, but 'Live at Last' is much quieter and not representative of the band's sound only a year or two earlier.

"The Maid and the Palmer" tells the story of a Palmer, (a pilgrim returning home from Jerusalem with a palm branch), who meets a woman washing clothes. He asks her for a cup of water, but she refuses. He comments that she would certainly give her lover a cup of water, and when she denies having a lover, he tells her that she is lying, and that she has born nine children, all of whom she has killed and hidden. He condemns her to seven years as a stepping-stone, seven years as a clapper in a bell, and seven years of running as "an ape through Hell". Given the Palmer's supernatural powers, he may be Christ in disguise.

"Hunting the Wren" is a version of the Cutty Wren tradition. On Please to See the King, the band explored this tradition with "The King", and on Time, the band recorded "The Cutty Wren", another song about this tradition.

Personnel

*Maddy Prior (vocals)
*Tim Hart (vocals, guitar)
*Martin Carthy (vocals, guitar)
*Rick Kemp (bass guitar, vocals)
*John Kirkpatrick (vocals, accordion)
*Nigel Pegrum (drums)

Track listing

#The Atholl Highlanders/Walter Bulwer's Polka ("Traditional")(instr) – 5:07
#Saucy Sailor/Black Freighter ("Traditional/Brecht, Weill") – 4:44
#The Maid and the Palmer ("Traditional") – 6:37
#Hunting The Wren ("Traditional") – 3:08
#Montrose ("Traditional") – 15:16
#Bonnets So Blue ("Traditional") (morris dance tune) – 3:30
#The False Knight on the Road ("Traditional") – 6:06


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