GOOD TIMES OF OLD ENGLAND: STEELEYE SPAN 1972-1983

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2022

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - Below the Salt (49:52)
1. Spotted Cow (3:08)
2. Rosebud in June (3:43)
3. Jigs: The Bride's Favourite / Tansey's Fancy (3:13)
4. Sheep Crook and Black Dog (4:45)
5. Royal Forester (4:36)
6. King Henry (7:12)
7. Gaudete (2:27)
8. John Barleycorn (4:50)
9. Saucy Sailor (5:52)
10. Gaudete (single version) (2:27)
11. The Holly and the Ivy (2:25)
- Bonus Tracks :
12. Gaudete (take 1) (2:25)
13. Singing the Travels (2:49)

CD 2 - Parcel of Rogues (49:46)
1. One Misty Moisty Morning (3:32)
2. Alison Gross (5:30)
3. The Bold Poachers (4:18)
4. The Ups and Downs (2:46)
5. Robbery with Violins (1:49)
6. The Wee Wee Man (4:00)
7. The Weaver and the Factory Maid (5:23)
8. Rogues in a Nation (4:35)
9. Cam Ye o'er Frae France (2:49)
10. Hares on the Mountain (4:35)
11. Bonny Moorhen (4:18)
- Bonus Tracks :
12. Rag Doll (alt. take) (3:25)
13. The Ups & Downs (instrumental) (2:46)

CD 3 - Now We Are Six (45:40)
1. Seven Hundred Elves (5:19)
2. Drink Down the Moon (6:29)
3. Now We Are Six (2:23)
4. Thomas the Rhymer (6:44)
5. The Mooncoin Jig (3:57)
6. Edwin (4:46)
7. Long-A-Growing (4:05)
8. Two Magicians (4:29)
9. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1:32)
10. To Know Him Is to Love Him (2:45)
- Bonus Tracks:
11. Thomas the Rhymer (single edit) (3:11)

CD 4 - Commoners Crown (56:26)
1. Little Sir Hugh (4:45)
2. Bach Goes to Limerick (3:42)
3. Long Lankin (8:42)
4. Dogs and Ferrets (2:45)
5. Galtee Farmer (3:47)
6. Demon Lover (5:54)
7. Elf Call (3:56)
8. Weary Cutters (2:03)
9. New York Girls (3:16)
- Bonus Tracks:
10. Bach Goes to Limerick / Devil's Dream (alt. take) (4:47)
11. Galtee Farmer (alt. take) (6:32)
12. New York Girls (alt. take 1) (3:12)
13. New York Girls (More Sellers version) (3:05)

CD 5 - All Around My Hat (51:03)
1. Black Jack Davy (4:19)
2. Hard Times of Old England (5:15)
3. Cadgwith Anthem (2:48)
4. Sum Waves (Tunes) (4:04)
5. The Wife of Usher's Well (4:36)
6. Gamble Gold (Robin Hood) (3:44)
7. All Around My Hat (4:11)
8. Dance with Me (3:56)
9. Batchelor's Hall (5:47)
- Bonus Tracks:
10. Sum Waves / Devil's Dream (5:37)
11. Batchelor's Hall (instrumental) (6:46)

CD 6 - Rocket Cottage (47:52)
1. London (4:10)
2. The Bosnian Hornpipes (0:57)
3. Orfeo / Nathan's Reel (5:57)
4. The Twelve Witches (4:30)
5. The Brown Girl (5:03)
6. Fighting for Strangers (4:22)
7. Sligo Maid (3:42)
8. Sir James the Rose (6:11)
9. The Drunkard (7:55)
- Bonus Track:
10. The Drunkard (alt. take) (5:05)

CD 7 - Storm Force Ten (45:17)
1. Awake, Awake (5:04)
2. Sweep, Chimney Sweep (4:41)
3. The Wife of the Soldier (2:38)
4. The Victory (8:33)
5. The Black Freighter (from "The Threepenny Opera") (5:57)
6. Some Rival (3:23)
7. Treadmill Song (6:09)
8. Seventeen Come Sunday (5:08)
- Bonus Track:
9. The Boar's Head Carol (3:44)

CD 8 - Live at Last (69:18)
1. The Atholl Highlanders / Walter Bulwer's Polka (5:03)
2. Saucy Sailor / Black Freighter (9:47)
3. The Maid and the Palmer (6:35)
4. Hunting the Wren (3:03)
5. Montrose (15:10)
6. Bonnets So Blue (3:26)
7. The False Knight on the Road (6:06)
- Bonus Tracks:
8. The Victory (8:11)
9. Cam Ye o'er Frae France (4:23)
10. Seventeen Come Sunday (7:34)

CD 9 - Sails of Silver (37:25)
1. Sails of Silver (3:27)
2. My Love (2:52)
3. Barnet Fair (4:34)
4. Senior Service (3:30)
5. Gone to America (4:21)
6. Where Are They Now (4:10)
7. Let Her Go Down (3:36)
8. Longbone (3:55)
9. Marigold / Harvest Home (3:05)
10. Tell Me Why (3:55)

CD 10 - On Tour (Australian only release) (61:11)
1. The King (1:45)
2. Black Jack Davy (4:52)
3. Sails of Silver (3:24)
4. Little Sir Hugh (7:07)
5. Let Her Go Down (4:01)
6. Alison Gross (5:40)
7. Bach Goes to Limerick (2:41)
8. Thomas the Rhymer (5:53)
9. I Have a Wish (4:15)
10. Longbone (4:17)
11. I Live Not Where I Love (4:53)
12. Gone to America (4:49)
13. Gaudete (2:31)
14. All Around My Hat (5:03)

CD 11 - Live at The Rainbow Theatre 1974 (71:56)
1. Back Goes to Limerick (2:16)
2. The Ups and Downs (2:52)
3. Demon Lover (9:37)
4. Two Magicians (4:56)
5. The Wife of Usher's Well (4:38)
6. One Misty Moisty Morning (3:21)
7. Long Lankin (8:55)
8. Jig Jam (2:06)
9. The Musical Priest / The Silver Spear (3:57)
10. Little Sir Hugh (5:00)
11. Thomas the Rhymer (6:00)
12. Cam Ye o'er Frae France (5:45)
13. Oh You Beautiful Doll (3:56)
14. Gaudete (2:29)
15. Irish Jigs (including Paddy Clancy's) (2:51)
16. The Mason's Apron (3:17)

CD 12 - Live at The Berklee Performance Centre, Boston 1976 (77:28)
1. London (4:03)
2. Orfeo / Nathan's Reel (6:47)
3. Hard Times of Old England (5:29)
4. Cam Ye o'er Frae France (3:54)
5. Twelve Witches (4:31)
6. Black Jack Davy (4:49)
7. Gaudete (4:18)
8. Brown Girl (5:37)
9. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (4:19)
10. The Wife of Usher's Well (4:52)
11. Sir James the Rose (5:56)
12. Devil's Dream / Royal Forester (7:11)
13. Eins, Zwei, Drei (1:42)
14. The Black Joke / Sligo Maid (6:41)
15. All Around My Hat / The Mason's Apron (7:19)

Total Time 663:14

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Chrysalis Catalogue - CRB1491

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Review by Warthur
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This 12 CD boxed set covers Steeleye Span's entire run on Chrysalis, aside from the 1989 album Tempted and Tried (a one-off return to the label which seems to have only ended up there at the last minute, since the advance single was released through other channels). Commencing with 1972's Below the Salt album, it contains all the studio releases from there to the contractual obligation release Sails of Silver, plus the two live albums Live At Last and On Tour (the latter having previously been hard to find outside of Australia). To sweeten the deal, you also get two archival releases, never before released, and a sprinkling of bonus tracks.

The first of the archival live shows hails from the Rainbow Theatre in November 1974. Why this was let to sit in the archives for so long without a release boggles the mind - much like other Rainbow gigs from the era from the likes of Queen or Genesis which only got an official release long after the fact, it's an absolute classic, excellently capturing the band right at the peak of their powers having just wrapped the sessions for Commoners Crown. The performance of Long Lankin, a standout track from that album, is a particular highlight.

The other archival show is a Berklee Performance Centre appearance from the Rocket Cottage tour. This is a bit harder-edged than the earlier show - for Span were dialling up the rock aspect of their folk-rock mix at this time - but still very solid, and with enough differences to feel like good value next to the other three live releases in here.

As far as the sound quality goes, it's pretty solid. The archival live releases and bonus tracks are newly remastered; the bulk of the rest of the material is as it was when released in the now out-of-print Parcel of Steeleye Span boxed sets. Compared with those two packages, I would say this is the better deal: sure, you lose Tempted and Tried from the second box (Another Parcel of Steeleye Span), but that was a bit of an odd one out anyway, and getting On Tour and especially the Berklee and Rainbow shows in its place is a more than adequate trade. In addition, the two Parcel sets didn't dedicate a CD to each album, which meant some albums had their tracks split awkwardly between discs; here each album comes in an individual cardboard sleeve replicating the original LP, which isn't uncommon these days but is far nicer than the Parcel presentation.

Get this and the 2019 All Things Are Quite Silent box, which collects their pre-Chrysalis material, and I don't think anyone would say you are missing anything truly essential from their work.

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