V/A - Hail Be You Sovereigns, Lief And Dear [CD]

John Barleycorn is king of the fields, gloriously robed in green and crowned with sheaves of golden wheat. He reigns all summer long, but is cut down and deposed at harvest-time, only to be reborn and reinstated the following year. He relies on no arid theory to justify his rule, but only his endless generosity to his subjects. The King is dead – long live the King. 30 tracks from the cream of current dark British Folk music.

Track Listing:

Disc 1

1. The Hare And The Moon – ‘The Willows’
2. The Elder Tree – ‘The Lonely Willow’
3. Foxpockets – ‘Twelve Sisters’
4. Venereum Arvum – ‘CWMD – A Diamond In My Eye’
5. Mary Jane – ‘Wherever She Goes’
6. Andrew King – ‘Of The Subterranean Inhabitants’
7. Earthling Society – ‘The Great Return’
8. David Kidman – ‘The Green Man’
9. The Rowan Amber Mill – ‘On Ridgeway Fields’
10. Steve Tyler & Andy Clarke – ‘My Lady’s Coach’
11. Xenis Emputae Travelling Band – ‘Elicona II’
12. Sixpenny Wayke – ‘Under England’s Sky’
13. Heed The Thunder – ‘Easter Tree’
14. Galley Beggar – ‘Sun God’
15. Hills Have Riffs – ‘Drugged Shepherd’

Disc 2

1. A Tiding Of Magpies – ‘Coleman Grey’
2. Earthling Society – ‘An Elf-Knight’s Lament’
3. Thornland – ‘Ancient Trees And Fractured Spines’
4. Foxpockets – ‘Widow’s Walk’
5. Colossloth – ‘BDFDS’
6. Beneath The Oak – ‘White Raven, Black Dove’
7. David Whitwell – ‘When My Blues Retire’
8. David Kidman – ‘Summon Up The Sun’
9. Sol-De-Muerte – ‘Sentinel’
10. Tim Graham – ‘Hanging Ivy’
11. Woodwose – ‘Frenetique’
12. The Transmutations -’The Bramble Briar’
13. Finglebone – ‘Flouse Hole Sun’
14. Nathaniel Robin Mann – ‘Moonshiners’
15. Lost Harbours – ‘Hymns & Ghosts Pt 2′