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Prior has recorded session work, albums of her own songs and eclectic styles from medieval (with The Carnival Band), through British folk rock — Steeleye Span and Maddy Prior appeared on television with a regular BBC 4 programme Electric Folk [3] — prog-rock and traditional songs, including session work on Mike Oldfield's Incantations. She ...
Pegrum ran a music studio. Prior and Kemp devoted much energy to their own band — The Maddy Prior Band; see Maddy Prior (solo albums), recording four albums, [11] and also had children together. The result was that the band's output dropped sharply, producing only three albums over the space of ten years (including a concert album), although ...
Silly Sisters is a 1976 album by English folk singers Maddy Prior and June Tabor, their first collaborative effort as a duo. The pair later adopted the Silly Sisters name for subsequent projects. The songs cover a wide range of subjects - work, religion, sexual relations, humour, tragedy and the absurd.
Steeleye Span is a British folk rock band formed by bassist Ashley Hutchings after he left Fairport Convention in 1969, the original line-up also included duo Tim Hart (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Maddy Prior (vocals) and husband and wife team Terry Woods (guitar, concertina, mandolin, vocals) and Gay Woods (vocals, bodhran, concertina, autoharp). [1]
Prior and Tabor met at Oxford in the 1960s. [1] At first, they performed together under their own names. They released their first album, Silly Sisters, in 1976, and later took this name as the name of their duo. They toured together in the 1980s, [2] and released a subsequent album No More to the Dance in 1988, on the Shanachie Records label ...
Kemp has played bass on a number of Maddy Prior records, and was a member of the Maddy Prior Band in the 1980s. The 1990 album Happy Families was officially credited to "Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp". He also played on solo albums by former Steeleye Span member Tim Hart in the 1970s and 1980s.
Maddy Prior's collaboration with the band began near the start of their existence in 1984 for a BBC radio programme of Christmas carols. [2] Since then, Maddy has featured on most Carnival Band albums. They have co-written material. For example, they wrote and toured a song cycle based on the life of Worcester-born heroine Hannah Snell. [3]
Ravenchild is the first album recorded by Maddy Prior after she stopped working with the Carnival Band. It has a distinctive flavour that we can now recognise as the influence of Troy Donockley. There are frequent sound effects such as wind, echo and washes of synthesiser chords.