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Track List
01) A Calling-On Song
02) The Blacksmith
03) Fisherman's Wife
04) Blackleg Miner
05) Dark-Eyed Sailor
06) Copshawholme Fair
07) All Things Are Quite Silent
08) The Hills of Greenmore
09) My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
10) Lowlands of Holland
11) Twa Corbies
12) One Night as I Lay on My Bed
01) A Calling-On Song
02) The Blacksmith
03) Fisherman's Wife
04) Blackleg Miner
05) Dark-Eyed Sailor
06) Copshawholme Fair
07) All Things Are Quite Silent
08) The Hills of Greenmore
09) My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
10) Lowlands of Holland
11) Twa Corbies
12) One Night as I Lay on My Bed
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First Released
1970
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"Hark! The Village Wait" was the 1970 debut album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. The album is the only one to feature the original lineup of the band, as they broke up and reformed with a slightly altered membership immediately after its release, without having ever performed live. Hence it is one of only two Steeleye Span studio albums to feature two female vocalists (Maddy Prior and Gay Woods), the other being Time (1996). A similar sound was exhibited years later when Prior teamed up with June Tabor to form Silly Sisters. Overall, the album's sound is essentially folk music with rock drumming and bass guitar added to some of the songs. The banjo features prominently on several tracks, including "The Blackleg Miner", "Lowlands of Holland" and "One Night as I Lay on My Bed".
The album's title refers to not the act of waiting, but to a "Wait". Waits were a small body of wind instrumentalists employed by a town at public charge from Tudor times until the early 19th century. A village, however, would likely be too small to employ such a troupe, so the Wait referred to here was more probably the later Christmas Waits, as mentioned in the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Among the songs on the album include the a capella "A Calling-On Song" (the first of many a capella pieces the band recorded), "Blackleg Miner", "Dark-Eyed Sailor", and "The Lowlands of Holland", which used variant lyrics from the most common version of the song.
The album was originally issued in the UK on RCA . It was a one-off, and was not issued in the US. The cover for the reissue was changed to a silhouette of a town and was issued on UK Chrysalis and made its debut in the US on US Chrysalis in 1975.
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"Hark! The Village Wait" was the 1970 debut album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. The album is the only one to feature the original lineup of the band, as they broke up and reformed with a slightly altered membership immediately after its release, without having ever performed live. Hence it is one of only two Steeleye Span studio albums to feature two female vocalists (Maddy Prior and Gay Woods), the other being Time (1996). A similar sound was exhibited years later when Prior teamed up with June Tabor to form Silly Sisters. Overall, the album's sound is essentially folk music with rock drumming and bass guitar added to some of the songs. The banjo features prominently on several tracks, including "The Blackleg Miner", "Lowlands of Holland" and "One Night as I Lay on My Bed".
The album's title refers to not the act of waiting, but to a "Wait". Waits were a small body of wind instrumentalists employed by a town at public charge from Tudor times until the early 19th century. A village, however, would likely be too small to employ such a troupe, so the Wait referred to here was more probably the later Christmas Waits, as mentioned in the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Among the songs on the album include the a capella "A Calling-On Song" (the first of many a capella pieces the band recorded), "Blackleg Miner", "Dark-Eyed Sailor", and "The Lowlands of Holland", which used variant lyrics from the most common version of the song.
The album was originally issued in the UK on RCA . It was a one-off, and was not issued in the US. The cover for the reissue was changed to a silhouette of a town and was issued on UK Chrysalis and made its debut in the US on US Chrysalis in 1975.
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