Cogs, Wheels & Lovers Explained

Cogs, Wheels & Lovers
Type:Album
Artist:Steeleye Span
Cover:Cogs, Wheels and Lovers.jpg
Released:October 2009
Recorded:2009
Genre:British folk rock
Label:Park Records
Producer:Steeleye Span with Mark Ellis and Tony Poole
Prev Title:Bloody Men
Prev Year:2006
Next Title:Wintersmith
Next Year:2013

Cogs, Wheels & Lovers is the twenty-first studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. It was released on 26 October 2009.[1] It is the band's fourth studio album to feature the line-up of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Ken Nicol and Liam Genockey.

The songs on the album are entirely traditional pieces. As such, this album marks a return to the band's early pattern of recording modern arrangements of traditional songs, and marks a departure of its tendency, demonstrated since the early 1980s, of doing both traditional songs and songs they wrote themselves.

Cogs, Wheels and Lovers was the last album to feature guitarist Ken Nicol.

Personnel

Steeleye Span

Track listing

  1. "Gallant Frigate Amphitrite"
  2. "Locks and Bolts"
  3. "Creeping Jane"
  4. "Just as the Tide"
  5. "Ranzo"
  6. "The Machiner's Song"
  7. "Our Captain Cried"
  8. "Two Constant Lovers"
  9. "Madam will you Walk"
  10. "The Unquiet Grave"
  11. "Thornaby Woods", followed by the 'hidden track', "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry"

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Steeleye Span - Cogs, Wheels And Lovers - CDs at Play.com (UK) . Play.com . 18 October 2009 . 9 February 2012.