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Midwinter

Artist: Various Artists
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Format: CD
Themes: Christmas
SKU: RDI620942  |  Barcode: 020286209423
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Description

Midwinter is a celebration of folk music and traditions of Christmas and the Turning of the Year featuring tracks by artists like Joan Baez, Jean Ritchie, the Waterson's, Mahalia Jackson, Sandy Denny, Jeff Warner and many more.

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Specifications
  • Format
    CD
  • Composers
    Isaac Watts, Ian McCalman, William Barnes, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jim Boyes, Jean Ritchie, Janis Ian, Stan Rogers, John Lennon, John Prine, Enoch Kent, Traditional, John Tams, Joni Mitchell
  • Label
    Free Reed Us Release
  • Genre
    Folk
  • Number of Discs
    4
  • Theme
    Christmas
  • Release Date
    10/24/2006

Tracks

  • Disc 1
  • 1 Gower Wassail (First Part) Phil Tanner
  • 2 Stopping By Woods Robert Frost 2 -Into- a Roving on a Winter's Night Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle
  • 3 The River Grace Notes
  • 4 Skater's Waltz John Fahey 4 - Including Excerpt By Arthur Ransome Jim Lawton 4 & Excerpt from the Prelude Jim Lawton
  • 5 Christmas in Now Drawing Near at Hand Lal Waterson
  • 6 The Spirit of Christmas Steve Ashley with Tinderbox
  • 7 - from Hamlet Act 1 Gary Watson 7 Christmas Is A-Comin' Leadbelly
  • 8 Xmas Island Richard Farina, with Blind Boy Grunt & Eric Von Schmidt
  • 9 The Humstrum David Strawbridge / Tim Laycock
  • 10 Sound Your Instruments of Joy Mabe Choir
  • 11 Wassail John Kirkpatrick Et Al
  • 12 Snow Falls Albion Bnad with John Tams
  • 13 Wintergrace Jean Ritchie
  • 14 Cherry Tree Carol Shirley Collins
  • 15 Red & Green Christmas Nadia Cattouse
  • 16 Emmanuel the Watersons
  • 17 Song to Mithras Peter Bellamy
  • 18 The Meadowhall Carol Coope Boyes & Simpson
  • 19 God Bless the Birthday Boy the McCalmans
  • 20 Moving on Song Ewan McColl
  • 21 Christmas Eve Can Kill You Helen Watson & Suzie Adams
  • 22 Workhouse Boy the Halliard
  • 23 -Into- Snow Is on the Ground (Excerpt) Eleazor Tillet
  • 24 Christmas Comes But Once a Year Enoch Kent 25 Jack Frost & the Hooded Crow Dave Pegg
  • 25 - the Night Before Christmas Mike Hockenhull 27 the Christmas Tree Charlie Fretwell
  • Disc 2
  • 1 Reading: Luke 2:1 Nigel Schofield 1 Into - While Shepherds Scan Tester
  • 2 Christmas Must Be Tonight Johnny Coppin
  • 3 - on the Morning of Christ's Nativity Jim Lawton
  • 4 Into -For Unto Us a Child John McCutcheon 4 Shepherds Arise Copper Family
  • 5 - Reading: Luke 2:8 Nigel Schofield 5 Into -Sherburne Sacred Harp Convention 1959
  • 6 Hark Hark What News Singers at the Black Bull 6 Into - Reading : Luke 2:7 Nigel Schofield
  • 7 Once in Royal David's City Martyn Wyndham Read
  • 8 The Three Harks Coope Boyes & Simpson
  • 9 Wexford Carol Maggie Boyle
  • 10 I Sing of a Maiden Shirley Collins
  • 11 Lullay My Liking Young Tradition
  • 12 Silent Night Chloe Coburn / Bernie Parry
  • 13 The First Nowell Baccapella
  • 14 - Reading: Matthew 2:1 Nigel Schofield 15 Into -Follow That Star St Agnes Fountain
  • 15 Star in the East (Brightest and Best) Debra Cowan / John Roberts
  • 16 Astrologers' Journey Johnny Coppin
  • 17 - Journey of the Magi T S Eliot
  • 18 Follow the Star Maggie Boyle / Gary Boyle
  • 19 Herod & The Cock Nowell Sing We Clear 19 Into -Reading: Matt 2:18 Nigel Schofield
  • 20 Coventry Carol Joan Baez
  • 21 The Carnal & The Crane New Scorpion Band
  • 22 Go Tell It on the Mountain Mahalia Jackson
  • 23 On Christmas Day May Bradley
  • 24 Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Druidstone
  • Disc 3
  • 1 Fire & Wine Steve Ashley
  • 2 In the Winter Laura Hockenhull / John Dipper
  • 3 Papa Ain't No Santy Claus Butterbeans & Susie
  • 4 Winter Flowers Martha Tilston
  • 5 Christmas in Prison Fishken & Groves
  • 6 Jogging Along with My Reindeer John Kirkpatrick
  • 7 Cardboard Christmas Boxes Alan Hull
  • 8 Comfort & Joy Clive Gregson
  • 9 First Snow in Brooklyn Jethro Tull
  • 10 Lady Gay Buell Kazee
  • 11 Peace O'er the World (Bradda Anthem) Coope, Boyes & Simpson-And- Freya, Fraser & Boyes
  • 12 Oh What a Lovely War Excerpt 12 Christmas 1914 Mike Harding
  • 13 Christmas Isn't What It Used to Be Tim Moon
  • 14 Christmas John Tams
  • 15 Ghost of Christmas Past Mandy Morton Band
  • 16 Christmas Morning Loudon Wainwright III
  • 17 Days of Holly & Mistletoe Artisan
  • 18 Huron Carol Carol Duveneck
  • 19 The King Strawbs with Maddy Prior
  • 20 The Christmas Hare Muckram Wakes
  • 21 Chariots John Kirkpatrick
  • 22 Remember Bethlehem Kevin Loughran
  • Disc 4
  • 1 Old Christmas / Shooting Nowell Sing We Clear
  • 2 Apple Tree Wassail the Watersons
  • 3 Gloucestershire Wassail Albion Christmas Band
  • 4 The Oxen Maddy Prior
  • 5 The Burning Babe Mike Hockenhull
  • 6 Bushes and Briars Sandy Denny
  • 7 Poor Ditching Boy Richard Thompson
  • 8 Reading Clock Almanac Jim Lawton
  • 9 Dunstan Lullaby Coope Boyes & Simpson
  • 10 Watts' Cradle Hymn Maddy Prior
  • 11 Boar's Head Carol Teesside Fettlers
  • 12 The Grinch Boris Karloff
  • 13 Hunting the Wren Joe & Winifred Woods
  • 14 Cutty Wren Ian Campbell Folk Group
  • 15 The Wren (The King) Martin Carthy/ Dave Swarbrick
  • 16 First Christmas Away from Home Artisan
  • 17 Miner's Dream of Home Fred Whiting
  • 18 - Excerpt Symondsbury Mummers
  • 19 Happy Christmas (War Is Over)/ We Sing Allelujah Alan Rose Et Al
  • 20 None But One Jean Ritchie
  • 21 Mari Llwyd John Clough
  • 22 Carol for the New Year Nowell Sing We Clear
  • 23 The Oxplough Song Johnny Collins
  • 24 Three Ships Suite Steve Tilston
  • 25 Gower Wassail (Reprise) Phil Tanner
  • 26 Midnight Chimes 26 Into: Bonus Track 26 the January Man Martin Carthy