Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band - Songs & Tales From Greenwood Edge
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Excellent condition copy of this rare and hard-to-find privately pressed LP by the Northants based Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band from 1975.The band consited of Tom Hall (vocals, guitar, harmonium, mandola and recorders) and Diane Hall (vocals, portative organ, harmonium, glockenspiel and bowed psaltery)All songs and stories written by Tom, all traditional dance tunes arranged by Tom.Track listing :-Side One :-(1) Be of Good Cheer. (A group of travellers made a jolly noise with kettle-drum, cittern and hand organ)(2) Windsong. (Windsong was written some years ago after a weekend with frineds on a houseboat at Walton on the Naze)(3) The Gremlin Song - Dunster Town. (This tale was told to us by an elderly gentleman who resdies in Dunster, Somerset. Many sightings have been reported of these Hobbit-like creatures after supping the local cider)(4) The Cobbler and the Raven. (A 13th Century English dance precedes this fable. The scene is a lowly hovel in Far Cotton, a small hamlet outside Northampton's castle wall. The story ends with two tunes (Doc Boyd's and Major Mackie's jigs) which are used to accompany the Cogenhoe Onion Dance. The said dance is a fertility dance performed blindfolded around a pattern of onions. Our jester Ebeneezer Wilson performed this in the studio, hence the bells, and should you care to pace your nose close
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