Live at Kings Place

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Live at Kings Place
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ReleasedAugust 2014
RecordedKings Place, London, 7 May 2014
Genre Folk
Label Society of Sound, Bowers & Wikins

Live at Kings Place is the fifth solo album by folk musician and Idlewild vocalist Roddy Woomble, released in August 2014 as the 75th offering [1] from the Society of Sound, a music subscription service provided by Bowers & Wilkins.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "A New Day Has Begun"
  2. "Every Line of a Long Moment"
  3. "Work Like You Can"
  4. "Between the Old Moon"
  5. "The Last One of My Kind"
  6. "Green Rocky Road"
  7. "Leaving Without Gold"
  8. "My Secret Is My Silence"
  9. "The Universe Is On My Side"
  10. "Fiddle Tunes"
  11. "Trouble Your Door"
  12. "Quiet Crown"
  13. "You Held the World in Your Arms"
  14. "Goodnight"
  15. "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"
  16. "I Came in from the Mountain"
  17. "Waverley Steps"
  18. "Old Town"
  19. "Roll Along"

Personnel

Musicians

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References

  1. "Roddie Woomble & Band Live at Kings Place". Bowers & Wilkins. Retrieved 8 February 2018.