Hang Up Sorrow and Care explained
Hang Up Sorrow and Care is an album by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.[2] [3] Released in 1995, it is a loose concept album, with renditions of songs that were written hundreds of years ago.[4]
Critical reception
Stereo Review stated: "Ballads and dances to the heart and the bottle are expertly played in a trad setting that features such instruments as lute, recorder, hoboy, curtal, kazoo, and 'ye great dooble bass'."[5] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch deemed Hang Up Sorrow and Care "the most inspired drinking album of the digital era."[6]
AllMusic wrote that "Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band have made a real party album, of witty, upbeat traditional songs from the British Isles."
Track listing
- Prodigal's Resolution (Anon 18th century)
- 5 Playford Tunes (from Playford's "English Dancing Master")
- The World is Turned Upside Down (Anon 17th century)
- Jovial Beggar (Anon 17th century)
- Leathern Bottle (Anon 17th century)
- Iantha (Anon English 18th century)
- An Thou were my ain Thing (Anon Scottish 18th century)
- Oh that I had but a Fine Man (Pelham Humphry)
- Now O Now I needs must part (John Dowland)
- Man is for the Woman made (Henry Purcell)
- A Northern Catche/The Little Barleycorne (John Hilton/Trad)
- Granny's Delight/My Lady Foster's Delight (Anon 18th century)
- A Round of Three Country Dances in One (Thomas Ravenscroft)
- Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
- In The Days of my Youth (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
- Never weatherbeaten sail (Thomas Campion)
- Old Simon the King (Anon)
Personnel
- Maddy Prior - vocals
- William Badley - baroque guitar, lute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Davis - Double Bass
- Giles Lewin - violin, recorders, hoboy, mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Watts - Flemish bagpipes, shalman, curtals, recorders, melodica, kazoo, vocals
- Rafaello Mizraki - drums, percussion, cello, Hammond organ, vocals
- Arrangements by Andrew Watts
Notes and References
- Web site: Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music. Britta. Sweers. 13 January 2005. Oxford University Press. Google Books.
- Poet . J. . Folk — Hang Up Sorrow and Care by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band . Utne Reader . Jul 1996 . 76 . 117.
- News: Donohue . Simon . Maddy madness this Christmas . Lancashire Telegraph . December 6, 1997 . News.
- News: ARTS: TAKE NOTE . The Daily Telegraph . 25 Nov 1995 . 9.
- Richardson . Ken . Hang Up Sorrow and Care . Stereo Review . Jul 1996 . 61 . 7 . 80.
- News: Harris . Paul A. . BOTTOMS UP! . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 22 Nov 1996 . 4E.
