Nottamun Town: British and American Folksongs and Ballads
Download links and information about Nottamun Town: British and American Folksongs and Ballads by John Langstaff, Martin Best. This album was released in 2003 and it belongs to World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Classical, Folk genres. It contains 16 tracks with total duration of 38:31 minutes.
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| Artist: | John Langstaff, Martin Best |
| Release date: | 2003 |
| Genre: | World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Classical, Folk |
| Tracks: | 16 |
| Duration: | 38:31 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | The False Knight Upon The Road | 2:46 |
| 2. | The Little Turtle Dove | 2:27 |
| 3. | Seventeen Come Sunday | 2:33 |
| 4. | Sir Patrick Spens | 4:24 |
| 5. | Blow Away The Morning Dew | 2:56 |
| 6. | The Trees They Do Grow High | 2:45 |
| 7. | The Crawfish Man's Street Cry | 1:25 |
| 8. | She Moved Through The Fair | 2:19 |
| 9. | The Golden Vanity | 2:44 |
| 10. | The Rich Old Lady | 1:30 |
| 11. | Nottamun Town | 2:39 |
| 12. | John Barleycorn | 3:45 |
| 13. | The Jolly Ploughboy | 1:32 |
| 14. | St. James Hospital | 1:17 |
| 15. | The Brisk Young Widow | 1:37 |
| 16. | Six Dukes Went a-Fishing | 1:52 |
Details
[Edit]This is one of several CDs released on the Revels label with the purpose of bringing John Langstaff's classic folk recordings from the 1950s and 1960s back to market. On Nottamun Town, which was originally recorded and released on the EMI label in 1964, Langstaff divides his time between powerful a cappella renditions of songs like "False Knight Upon the Road" and "St. James Hospital" and others, equally fine, on which he is accompanied by guitarist Martin Best. In a couple of cases — notably the wonderful "Seventeen Come Sunday" — Best's elegant fingerpicking almost upstages Langstaff's powerful baritone voice, but in general this is Langstaff's show. Or, as he might insist, it's the songs' show: as rich and cultivated as his classically trained voice is, he delivers these songs without any particular showboating or self-aggrandizing fanfare, instead showcasing each one as if it were a rare jewel. Which, particularly in the case of "Golden Vanity" and "She Moved Through the Fair," is exactly what they are. Highly recommended.