Ballads and Candles

Ballads and Candles

Infobox Album
Name = Ballads and Candles
Type = studio
Artist = Maddy Prior


Released = 2000
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"Ballads and Candles" is an album by Maddy Prior.

Line-up

Maddy Prior (vocals), June Tabor (vocals), Rose Kemp (vocals), Steve Banks (percussion), Troy Donockley (guitar, uilleann pipes, low and tin whistle, cittern, vocals), Nick Holland (keyboards, vocals), Rick Kemp (bass, vocals), Peter Knight (violin). Running time 66 minutes 53 seconds. Recorded from concert performances during a tour of Cambridge, London and Warwick in 1999/2000. Released on CD in 2000. The songs are drawn from all of Maddy's career. June Tabor joins in for "Singing The Travels" (from "Silly Sisters") and includes an extra verse not in the previous recording. Maddy sings one song about her daughter Rose, and another about her son Alex. There is also a DVD of the same performances, which includes song introductions not on the CD version. "Sing, Sing All Earth" is a song that Maddy had not previously recorded, sung a capella by the whole band.

Track listing

*1. The Blacksmith (Trad)
*2. Blood and Gold (song/trad) / Mohacs (tune/Dan Ar Bras)
*3. Boar's Head (Trad)
*4. A Virgin Most Pure (Unknown)
*5. All In The Morning (Trad)
*6. Sing, Sing All Earth (Trad - Copper Family))
*7. Doffing Mistress (Trad)
*8. Betsy Bell and Mary Gray (Trad)
*9. Hind Horn (Trad)
*10. Singing The Travels (Trad)
*11. Long Shadows (Maddy Prior)
*12. The King (Trad)
*13. Rose (Maddy Prior)
*14. Mother and Child (Maddy Prior)
*15. Alex (Maddy Prior)
*16. My Husband's Got No Courage In Him (Trad)
*17. Blackleg Miner (Trad)
*18. Padstow May Song (Trad)


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