Oysterband and friends - The Big Session Volume 1 - CD
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Oysterband and friends
The Big Session Volume 1 (Westpark)

On May 18, 19 and 20 2004 Oysterband were joined at Bush Hall in Shepherds Bush, London, for live sessions in front of a small audience by a mighty cast - June Tabor, Phil Beer and Steve Knightley (Show of Hands), Eliza Carthy and Ben Ivitsky, Jim Moray (interrupting his tour with Richard Thompson), James O'Grady and (to add a shot of weird to the mix) visiting American-gothick originals The Handsome Family performed all sorts of familiar and unfamiliar material together over the three nights.

Listen:
John Barelycorn
Lowlands
New Jerusalem
Cuckoos Nest

"The Big Session Vol. 1" is NOT a compilation album. Instead it has around 65 minutes of new, collaborative music. There are 15 tracks; the titles are: John Barleycorn - Whitehaven - Lowlands - Country Life - Fuse - Ten Thousand Miles/Hungarian March - The New Jerusalem - When That Helicopter Comes - The House Carpenter - The Cuckoo's Nest - We Shall Come Home - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Factory Girl - Country Life ("I Like To Rise") - The Cornish Farewell Shanty.

"...joyful spontaneity...a powerful album, with [a] rugged spirit of adventure..." Mojo

"...coherent, unusual...visceral live sound...Vol 1 sets a standard that'll be hard to beat." fRoots

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