Ashore (album) explained

Ashore
Type:	Studio
Artist:	June Tabor
Cover:	Album Ashore cover.jpg
Recorded:	April 2010, Red Kite Studio, Llanwrada, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Genre:	English Folk
Label:	Topic Records
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Ashore is a folk album by June Tabor released in 2011 on Topic Records, catalogue number TSCD 577.

It is a collection of songs concerning humankind's relationship with the sea.

Track listing

1. Finisterre (Ian Telfer)
2. The Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh (Trad. arr. Tabor)
3. The Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney)
4. Le Vingt-Cinquième du Mois d'Octobre (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson)
5. Shipbuilding (Declan MacManus / Clive Langer)
6. Jamaica (arr. Emerson, Cutting, Harries)
7. The Great Selkie Of Sule Skerry (Trad. arr. Tabor, Warren)
8. Winter Comes In (words: Jack Renwick, music: Ronald Jamieson) / Vidlin Voe (Frank Jamieson)
9. The Oggie Man (Cyril Tawney)
10. I'll go and enlist for a soldier (Trad. arr. Cutting, Harries)
11. The Brean Lament (Trad. arr. Tabor, Warren)
12. Le Petit Navire (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson)
13. Across The Wide Ocean (words Les Barker, tune trad)

Personnel

• June Tabor - vocals
• Andy Cutting - diatonic accordion
• Mark Emerson - viola & violin
• Tim Harries - double bass
• Huw Warren - piano

External links

• Page at record label
• BBC Review by Colin Irwin
• Interview with June Tabor by Peter Paphides