 |
| Looking Glass | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 2010 |
| Recorded | Wavelength Studios |
| Genre | Folk |
| Length | 42:29 |
| Label | Topic Records |
| Producer | Fay Hield and Jon Boden |
Looking Glass is Fay Hield's first solo album.
| |
| Looking Glass | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 2010 |
| Recorded | Wavelength Studios |
| Genre | Folk |
| Length | 42:29 |
| Label | Topic Records |
| Producer | Fay Hield and Jon Boden |
Looking Glass is Fay Hield's first solo album.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Huntsman" | Trad. | 5:57 |
| 2. | "Mad Family" | Trad./Tune, Jon Boden | 2:29 |
| 3. | "Two Brothers" | Trad. | 3:51 |
| 4. | "The Looking Glass" | Text, Rudyard Kipling, Tune, Peter Bellamy | 3:19 |
| 5. | "Little Yellow Roses" | Trad. | 3:41 |
| 6. | "The Banks of the Nile" | Trad. | 2:36 |
| 7. | "Kemp Owen" | Trad. | 7:25 |
| 8. | "Sheepcrook and Black Dog" | Trad. | 3:56 |
| 9. | "Grey Goose and Gander" | Trad. | 4:01 |
| 10. | "The Shepherd's Daughter" | Trad. | 2:40 |
| 11. | "King Henry" | Trad. | 2:34 |
| Total length: | 42:29 | ||
 | This 2000s folk album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Canada. The band specializes in traditional French Canadian folk music, often with a modern twist.
Pagan is the fourth studio album by Irish folk metal band Cruachan released in 2004.
Folk-Lore is the third studio album by Irish folk metal band Cruachan released in 2002 on Hammerheart Records.
Cruachan are an Irish folk metal band from Dublin that have been active since the 1990s. They have been acclaimed as having "gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts to expand" the genre of folk metal. They are recognised as one of the founders of the folk metal genre. With a specific focus on Celtic music and the use of Celtic mythology in their lyrics, Cruachan's style of folk metal is called Celtic metal. The band named themselves after the archaeological site of Rathcroghan in Ireland also known as Cruachan.
Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays melodeon and concertina, while Jon Boden sings and plays fiddle and guitar while stamping the rhythm on a stomp box. Spiers and Boden were founding members of the folk band Bellowhead.
Transcendental Blues is the ninth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 2000. It features Sharon Shannon on the track "The Galway Girl". The album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category.
Old Blind Dogs is a Scottish musical group which plays traditional Scottish folk music and Celtic music, with influences from rock, reggae, jazz, blues, and Middle Eastern music rhythms.
The Witches of Elswick were an English a cappella folk quartet comprising Becky Stockwell, Gillian Tolfrey, Bryony Griffith and Fay Hield. Much of their material came from traditional music of the British Isles, including Two Sisters, Lord Randall, and "Daddy Fox". They also performed more contemporary folk material, such as "Once Lived In Service", "Soldier, Soldier" (Peter Bellamy, based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, "Bring Us A Barrel". The Witches took their name from Elswick, Tyne and Wear, where they shared a flat, and is a play on the novel and film The Witches of Eastwick.
Glasgerion is Child ballad 67,, existing in several variants.
Woody's Roundup: A Rootin' Tootin' Collection of Woody's Favorite Songs is a studio recording released by the Western band Riders in the Sky on August 29, 2000. It was released on Compact Disc.
The Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by country singer Clint Black. It compiles 12 hit songs from his first five albums. It also includes four new recordings: the singles "Like the Rain" and "Half Way Up", as well as "Cadillac Jack Favor" and a live cover of the Eagles' "Desperado". Black had originally covered this song in 1993 for the album, Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles.
Flyer was the eleventh studio album released by singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith. Released in 1994, it contained 15 tracks, mostly of original material. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. The album had contributions from Peter Buck, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton, Adam Duritz, The Chieftains and the Indigo Girls.
Jon Boden is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a proponent of "English traditional fiddle style" and also of "fiddle singing", both of which he employed in Bellowhead, in the duo Spiers & Boden, and previously as a member of Eliza Carthy’s Ratcatchers.
Sam Sweeney is a multi-instrumental English folk musician.
The Morrigan's Call is the fifth studio album by Irish folk metal band Cruachan released in 2006.
The Dirt Band is the tenth album from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Fay Hield is a traditional English folk singer and a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield.
Runaljod – Gap var ginnunga is the first album by Norwegian Nordic folk group Wardruna. It was released 19 January 2009 by Indie Recordings/Fimbulljóð Productions.
Purpose + Grace is a 2011 album recorded by the English guitarist and banjo player Martin Simpson and released on the Topic Records label. The album features a mixture of traditional and original material.
World Turning is a studio album orchestrated by banjo player Tony Trischka. Genres vary wildly as do performers for each track. The title track of the album is a cover version of "World Turning", a song by Fleetwood Mac. The newgrass-style title track divides the album in two, the first half representing 19th century and earlier period banjo music, while the latter showcases 20th century banjo music and beyond.