As You Were (album)

As You Were
Live album by Show of Hands
Released 2005
Recorded November and December 2004 at various venues in England
Genre Folk
Label Hands on Music HMCD22
Producer Mick Dolan
Show of Hands chronology

Country Life
(2003)		 As You Were
(2005)		 Witness
(2006)

As You Were is a 2005 live album by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.

The band recorded, with helm at Mick Dolan, the entire 2004 winter tour onto MiniDisc. This meant ploughing through each show the following day to identify the best performances and then collating and working through the "A list again" to find the best tracks. This album is the first to credit Miranda Sykes.

Track listing

On the back cover, the songs are written from 1 to 22.

All songs written by Steve Knightley, except where noted.

CD1

  1. "Longdog" – 3:25
  2. "You're Mine" – 4:38
  3. "Willin'" (Lowell George) – 4:06
  4. "Mary From Dungloe" (Trad arr. Knightley/Phil Beer) / "The Setting" (Ralph McTell) – 4:02
  5. "The Oak" – 4:18
  6. "The Blue Cockade" (Trad arr. Knightley/Beer) – 6:05
  7. "Crazy Boy" – 5:43
  8. "Crow On The Cradle" (Sydney Carter) – 4:37
  9. "I Promise You" – 4:39
  10. "Maybe" – 4:11
  11. "Be Lucky" – 5:26

CD2

  1. "The Blind Fiddler" (Trad arr. Knightley/Beer) / "Galway Farmer" (Knightley/Beer) – 8:27
  2. "Captains" – 4:33
  3. "Corrina, Corrina" (Bob Dylan) – 3:38
  4. "Smile She Said" – 4:39
  5. "Crooked Man" – 4:05
  6. "Are We Alright" – 3:31
  7. "Cousin Jack" – 6:09
  8. "The Train" / "Santiago" / "The Soldier's Joy" (Trad arr. Knightley/Beer) – 11:46
  9. "Widecombe Fair" – 4:19
  10. "Country Life" – 8:25
  11. "Don't Be A Stranger" – 16:18*

* Track 11 is made up of 5:03 of "Don't Be A Stranger", 3:33 of silence and then 7:42 of live between-song banter.

Hidden track

The mentioned "between song banter" hidden track was made up of...

  1. Notes about "beach towns"
  2. Notes about "the eclipse"
  3. "The Galway Farmer" (Reprise)
  4. "Paranoid"
  5. "Be Lucky" (Reprise)/Notes about "losing things"

Credits