Winter Songs
The Albion Christmas Band
Talking Elephant TECD103 2006
Recorded at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamptonshire
Engineered by Mark Hutchinson
Produced by The Albion Christmas Band and Mark Hutchinson
Front cover photo by Pail Van Dijk
Group photos by Paul Michael Hughes
Design by Malcolm Holmes
the ensemble
Kellie While, vocals - acoustic guitar, keyboards;
Simon Care, vocals - melodeon, concertina, percussion, drum;
Ashley Hutchings - vocals, bass guitar;
Simon Nicol - vocals, acoustic guitar
special guest: Ruth Angell | 
tracks
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| 1. |
Somerset Carol |
| 2. |
Bitter Withy |
| 3. |
First Christmas Waltz |
| 4. |
Winter Song |
| 5. |
All Hayle to the Dayes |
| 6. |
Last Christmas Tree |
| 7. |
The Holly and the Ivy |
| 8. |
Voices Raised in a Simple Worship |
| 9. |
God Bless the Master |
| 10. |
River |
| 11. |
Ham and Beef |
| 12. |
Frosty Reception/Ring Out Wild Bells |
| 13. |
O Little Town of Bethlehem |
| 14. |
Once in Royal David's City |
| 15. |
Noel, Christmas Eve. 1913 |
| 16. |
The First Nowell |
| 17. |
Past Three O'Clock |
All tracks trad. arr. The Albion Christmas Band, except
Track 3a, 12a Simon Care
Track 3b excerpt from a poem by John Clare
Track 4 Alan Hull
Track 6 Charles Dickens
Tracks 8, 11 excerpts from a A Song for Every Season by Bob Copper
Track 10 Joni Mitchell
Track 12b excerpt from a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Track 15 poem by Robert Bridges
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