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The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings. An important grouping in the genre, it has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers in its long ...
The album is a concept album, as it is a "journey" album that would be played on a journey around Southern England, making it similar to another of Beer's albums, Show of Hands' The Path. [citation needed] Similar to Beer's older album The Works, the album's release is of question.
In 1977, he joined the Albion Band in the National Theatre productions of Lark Rise and The Passion. Caddick later collaborated with Tim Laycock and Peter Bond in a stage show and album about circus life, called A Duck on his Head. About this time, he wrote songs for radio and TV, and performed his own songs in a film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
The Albion Band produced four albums during Nicol's time in the band: Happy Accident, Before Us Stands Yesterday, The Christmas Album and Road Movies. In December 2002, Nicol joined the folk-rock band Steeleye Span on their UK Reunion Tour. In 2004, Steeleye Span released two albums: They Called Her Babylon and Winter. This was also the year of ...
The reviews for Rise Up Like the Sun were mostly positive, although opinion was divided on some tracks, such as "The Gresford Disaster". For many, though, the outstanding track of the whole album is "Poor Old Horse", building up from a single fiddle over six minutes to a massed choir with high voices (Kate McGarrigle, Julie Covington and Linda Thompson) and gravelly guitars.
Battle of the Field is a folk rock album by the Albion Country Band, recorded in summer 1973 immediately prior to the band's breakup and only released in 1976 following public demand. The album was produced and engineered by John Wood , and was recorded at Sound Techniques Studio , Chelsea , London and Island Studio, St Peter's Square , London.
Band leader and folk legend Ashley Hutchings pre-empted the unplugged trend of the 1990s by reducing the numbers and instruments of his long running collective the Albion Band by bringing back longtime collaborator and fellow ex-Fairport Convention founder Simon Nicol, beside new talent: singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris While and energetic fiddler Ashley Reed.
A Christmas Present from The Albion Band (1985) Yuletracks (1986) (not Albion Band in name, though almost all of its participants are from The Albion Band. Phil Beer appears on two songs) Stella Maris (1987) The Wild Side of Town (1987) I Got New Shoes (Albion Dance Band) (1988) Rockin' Barn Dance (recorded 1988, released 2009)