Description
“nearly flawless: singing is not flashy, but genuinely well executed … playing is solid and infectious … songs are well selected and intelligently ordered – as if it could have been plucked from a tavern 350 years ago …. Throughout, there is an infectious joy expressed in the four-part harmonies. There are songs here that make the listener want to jump and dance a merry jig” (MusicWeb) “City Waites give us a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration years … and instrumental numbers from well-known anthologies like Playford’s Dancing Master … whilst other numbers have been dredged up straight from the 17th-century gutter” (Gramophone)
- [1] Bobbing Jo 1.25
- [2] Brooms for old shoes 1.38
- [3] The Traders Medley 2.31
- [4] Diddle diddle (Lavenders Green) 2.41
- [5] We be Soldiers Three 1.26
- [6] Branles 4.58
- [7] The Three Ravens 2.57
- [8] Tomorrow the Fox will come to Town 2.30
- [9] My dog and I 4.06
- [10] The Merry, merry Milkmaids 1.42
- [11] Newcastle 1.53
- [12] The Northern Lassies Lamentation (Oak & The Ash) 2.56
- [13] The Jovial Broom Man 3.01
- [14] Nine Pins/Jenny Pluck Pears/Half Hanekin 4.20
- [15] The Baffled Knight 3.42
- [16] Paul’s Wharf 2.01
- [17] Tobacco is an Indian Weed 3.10
- [18] You lasses and lads 1.39
- [19] Jockey’s Lamentation (Over the hills & far away) 4.20
- [20] Blue Cap 1.17
- [21] The Crossed Couple 3.50
- [22] The Farmer’s Cursed Wife (Lillibulero) 4.38
- [23] Lumps of Pudding 2.41
- [24] The Broom of the Cowdenowes 2.59
- [25] The Chirping of the Lark/Parsons Farewell 2.09
