Winter (Steeleye Span album)

Winter
Studio album by Steeleye Span
Released	2004
Studio	Warehouse Studios, Oxford
Genre	British folk rock Christmas music
Length	59:02
Label	Park Records
Producer	Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span chronology
They Called Her Babylon (2004) Winter (2004) Bloody Men (2006)

Winter is the 19th studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. It is the second album made by a line-up consisting of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Liam Genockey and Ken Nicol. This is their first Christmas album. Most of the songs on the album are traditional folk songs, but it also includes three new pieces expressing neo-pagan views on the Winter season. It also includes a negro spiritual, "Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel", the first time the band had drawn from that particular musical genre.

It was described by Record Collector as "Christmas carols alongside more Pagan material." ^[1]

Personnel

Steeleye Span

• Maddy Prior - vocals
• Peter Knight - backing vocals, violin, viola, electric piano
• Rick Kemp - bass guitar
• Liam Genockey - drums
• Ken Nicol - guitar, vocals

Track listing

1. "The First Nowell" - 4:23
2. "Down in Yon Forest" - 3:44
3. "Unconquered Sun" (Ken Nicol) - 5:22
4. "Chanticleer" (William Austin) - 4:17
5. "Bright Morning Star" - 3:15
6. "Winter" (Peter Knight) - 4:13
7. "See, Amid the Winter's Snow" (words - Edward Caswall, music - Sir John Goss ) - 5:47
8. "Mistletoe Bough" (Ken Nicol) - 5:35
9. "Sing We the Virgin Mary" - 3:41
10. "Today in Bethlehem" - 3:40
11. "Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel" - 2:54
12. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (words - Charles Wesley ) - 4:29
13. "Good King Wenceslas" (words - John Mason Neale ) - 3:36
14. "In the Bleak Midwinter" (words - Christina Rossetti, music - Gustav Holst ) - 4:06

References

1. "Steeleye Span - Record Collector Magazine" . Retrieved 29 June 2025.