The Watersons,
A Yorkshire Christmas

Witchwood Media WMCD 2029 (CD, UK, November 7, 2005)

 

Rod Green disegna questa natalizia artwork per un CD prodotto nel 1995 da David Cousins ma in realtà registrato nel Dicembre 1980 a Crathorn Hall nel North Yorkshire. La registrazione è senza dubbio eccezionale per qualità audio. Tra un traditional e l'altro vi sono anche alcune narrazioni: le voci narranti sono di Norman Benson, Mabel Race e Kit Calvert.

 

Tracks
The Watersons: The Holly Bears a Crown (2.50) - The Watersons: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (3.00) - Kit Calvert: The Yorkshire Nativity Story (2.45) - The Watersons: Stormy Winds (3.08) - Mabel Race: Carol Singing (1.59) - The Watersons: Emmanuel (2.27) - Norman Benson: Christmas Shops (1.18) - The Watersons: Wassail Song (3.48) - Kit Calvert: The Blunderbuss Gun (2.57) - The Watersons: Pace-Egging Song (3.37) - The Watersons: Here We Come A-Wassailing (1.27) - Mabel Race: Our Christmas Presents (0.51) - Lal Waterson: Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand (0.49) - Kit Calvert: Christmas Wages (4.15) - The Watersons: Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (4.27) - Norman Benson: On Christmas Eve (0.48) - The Watersons: Herod and the Cock (1.09) 
Kit Calvert: A New Year Poem (1.29) - The Watersons: God Bless the Master (3000) - Kit Calvert: The Hawes Tragedy (3.04) - Kit Calvert: The Loss of the Scotch Express (3.26) - Mabel Race: Father Christmas (0.57) 

Musicians
Lal, Mike and Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy, vocals.