Lusty Broadside Ballads & Playford Dances of 17th Century England
City Waites
directed by
Lucie Skeaping
“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