Green Blade Rising

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Green Blade Rising
Levellers greenblade.jpg
Studio album by
Released23 September 2002
RecordedWinter 2001 and spring 2002
Genre Folk rock
Length37:12
Label Eagle
Producer Alan Scott
Levellers chronology
Hello Pig
(2000)
Green Blade Rising
(2002)
Truth and Lies
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
No Ripcord7/10 [2]

Green Blade Rising is the seventh studio album by the Levellers, released in 2002. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Four Winds" – 3:22 [4]
  2. "Falling from the Tree" – 4:07 [4]
  3. "Pretty Target" – 3:40 [4]
  4. "Come on" - 2:25 [4]
  5. "Pour" – 4:16 [4]
  6. "Aspects of Spirit" – 3:45 [4]
  7. "Wild as Angels" - 2:56 [4]
  8. "Believers" – 3:04 [4]
  9. "A Chorus line" – 2:48 [4]
  10. "Not What We Wanted" – 3:20 [4]
  11. "Wake the world" – 3:29 [4]

CD Bonus Track

  1. "Galahad" - 2:43

Personnel

Musicians


Technical staff

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