Winter (Steeleye Span album)

Winter

Studio album by Steeleye Span

Released

2004

Recorded

Warehouse Studios, Oxford

Genre

Electric folk
Christmas music

Label

Park Records

Producer

Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span chronology

They Called Her Babylon
(2004)

Winter
(2004)

Bloody Men
(2006)

Winter is the 19th studio album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. So far it is the second of three studio albums made by a line-up consisting of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Liam Genockey and Ken Nicol. This is their first Christmas album. Most of the songs on the album are traditional folk songs, but it also includes three new pieces expressing neo-pagan views on the Winter season. It also includes a negro spiritual, "Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel", the first time the band had drawn from that particular musical genre.

Personnel

Maddy Prior - vocals
Peter Knight - backing vocals, violin, viola, electric piano
Rick Kemp - bass guitar
Liam Genockey - drums
Ken Nicol - guitar

Track listing

"The First Nowell"
"Down in Yon Forest"
"Unconquered Sun"
"Chanticleer" (William Austin)
"Bright Morning Star"
"Winter" (Peter Knight)
"See, Amid The Winter's Snow" (words - Edward Caswall, music - Sir John Goss)
"Mistletoe Bough"
"Sing We the Virgin Mary"
"Today in Bethlehem"
"Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel"
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (words - Charles Wesley)
"Good King Wenceslas" (words - John Mason Neale)
"In The Bleak Midwinter" (words - Christina Rossetti, music - Gustav Holst)

Steeleye Span

Maddy Prior Peter Knight Rick Kemp Liam Genockey Pete Zorn Julian Litman Tim Hart Ashley Hutchings Gay Woods Terry Woods Martin Carthy Bob Johnson Nigel Pegrum John Kirkpatrick Mark Williamson Chris Staines Tim Harries Michael Gregory Terl Bryant Ken Nicol

Studio albums	Hark! The Village Wait (1970) Please to See the King (1971) Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1971) Below the Salt (1972) Parcel of Rogues (1973) Now We Are Six (1974) Commoners Crown (1975) All Around My Hat (1975) Rocket Cottage (1976) Storm Force Ten (1977) Sails of Silver (1980) Back in Line (1986) Tempted and Tried (1989) Time (1996) Horkstow Grange (1998) Bedlam Born (2000) Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span (2002) They Called Her Babylon (2004) Winter (2004) Bloody Men (2006) Cogs, Wheels & Lovers (2009) Wintersmith (2013)

Live albums	Live at Last (1978) Tonight's the Night...Live (1992) The Collection: Steeleye Span in Concert (1994) The Journey (1999) Folk Rock Pioneers in Concert (2006) Live at a Distance (2009) Now We Are Six Again (2012)

Singles	"Rave On"/"Reels"/"Female Drummer" (1971) "Jigs and Reels" (1972) "John Barleycorn"/"Bride's Favourite"/"Tansey's Fancy" (1972) "Gaudete"/"The Holly and The Ivy" (1972) "The Mooncoin Jig" (1974) "New York Girls"/"Two Magicians" (1975) "All Around My Hat"/"Black Jack Davy" (1975) "Rave On"/"False Knight On The Road" (1976) "Hard Times of England"/"Cadgwith Anthem" (1976) "London"/"Sligo Maid" (1976) "Fighting For Strangers"/"The Mooncoin Jig" (1976) "The Boar's Head Carol"/"Gaudete"/"Some Rival" (1977) "Rag Doll"/"Saucy Sailor" (1978) "Sails of Silver"/"Senior Service" (1980) "Gone To America"/"Let Her Go Down" (1981) "Somewhere In London"/"Lanercost" (1985) "Padstow"/"First House in Connaught"/"Sailor's Bonnet" (1989) "Following Me"/"Two Butchers" (1989) "The Fox"/"Jack Hall" (1990) "Lord Elgin"/"Lord Elgin (live)" (2006)

DVDs	Classic Rock Legends (2002) A Twentieth Anniversary Celebration (2003) The 35th Anniversary World Tour 2004 (2005)

Related articles	The King of Elfland's Daughter (1977)

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