Hark! The Village Wait
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Hark! The Village Wait was the 1970 debut album by the folk rock band Steeleye Span. The album is the only one to feature the original lineup of the band, as they broke up and reformed with a slightly altered membership immediately after its release. Hence it is one of only two Steeleye Span albums to feature two female vocalists (Maddy Prior and Gay Woods), the other being 'Time' (1996). A similar sound was exhibited years later when Prior teamed up with June Tabor to form Silly Sisters.
The album's title refers to not the act of waiting, but to a "wait", which was a small body of wind instrumentalists employed by a town at public charge. A village, however, would likely be too small to employ such a troupe.
Personnel
- Maddy Prior (vocals),
- Tim Hart (vocals, electric guitar, electric dulcimer, fiddle, 5-string banjo, harmonium)
- Ashley Hutchings (bass)
- Terry Woods (vocals, electric guitar, concertina, mandola, 5-string banjo, mandolin)
- Gay Woods (vocals, concertina, autoharp, bodhran)
- Gerry Conway (drums)
- Dave Mattacks (drums)
Tracklisting
- A Calling-on Song (Traditional)
- The Blacksmith (Traditional)
- Fisherman's Wife (MacColl)
- Blackleg Miner (Traditional)
- Dark-Eyed Sailor (Traditional)
- Copshawholme Fair (Traditional)
- All Things Are Quite Silent (Traditional)
- The Hills Of Greenmore (Traditional)
- My Johnny Was A Shoemaker (Traditional)
- Lowlands of Holland (Traditional)
- Twa Corbies (Traditional)
- One Night As I Lay On My Bed (Traditional)
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