RRC 1275

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Lusty Songs & Country Dances (17th Century England) / The City Waites

The City Waites
Directed by Lucie Skeaping

1 CD(s), DDD

Review:

"City Waites give us a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration years... the unaccompanied consort and song, and the instrumental numbers from well-known anthologies like Playford's The Dancing Master. Much of this music is still recognizable as part of a rich aural tradition, whilst other numbers have been
dredged up straight from the 17th-century gutter"
(Gramophone)

"Delicious entertainment. Bawdy, brave, nautical, noxious...the zest is palpable, accents and colours infectious, instrumentation and vocal antics fusing with elan"
(Musicweb-international.com)

Track Listing:

1. Bobbing Jo

2. Brooms for old shoes

3. The Traders Medley

4. Diddle diddle (Lavenders Green)

5. We be Soldiers Three

6. Branles

7. The Three Ravens

8. Tomorrow the Fox will come to Town

9. My dog and I

10. The Merry, merry Milkmaids

11. Newcastle

12. The Northern Lasses Lamentation (Oak & the Ash)

13. The Jovial Broom Man

14. Nine Pins/Jenny Pluck Pears/Half Hanekin

15. The Baffled Knight

16. Paul's Wharf

17. Tobacco is an Indian Weed

18. You lasses and lads

19. Jockey’s Lamentation (Over the hills & far away)

20. Blue Cap

21. The Crossed Couple

22. The Farmer's Cursed Wife (Lillibulero)

23. Lumps of Pudding

24. The Broom of the Cowdenowes

25. The Chirping of the Lark/Parsons Farewell

TOTAL PLAY (70'42")