Black Crow/ White Crow : Annie Dearman, Vic Gammon & Steve Harrison

Annie Dearman, Vic Gammon & Steve Harrison perform traditional song in a robust and firmly rooted English style, accompanied on squeezeboxes, banjo
and mouthorgan.

The selection presented on this CD includes narrative songs (or ballads) and lyrical songs (which tend to express a mood or feeling). Three dance tunes
are also included. Some of the songs and tunes show the smoothing action of age, as do pebbles in a stream. Others are as rough as old boots, dealing in
themes common to much other art: love, marriage, seduction, sex, separation, fidelity, prostitution, loss, jealousy, parental disapproval, fantasy,
death, murder and deception. They deal with recurring human experiences and still have the ability to speak to and move us today.

"an A-list buy for anyone who loves English traditional song" Barry Callaghan, English Dance & Song magazine.

Track listing

1. Sorry the day I got married
2. American stranger
3. Rosemary Lane
4. Pleal's allemande (tune)
5. Early, early all in the spring
6. Pretty little feet
7. Boatswain and the tailor
8. Old garden gate
9. Broom call/ Besom Maker
10. Just as the tide was flowing
11. Trip to Brighton (tune)
12. Crafty maid
13. Chilbridge Fair (song)/ From night till morn (tune)
14. Harry Newell
15. Farewell he!
16. Pretty ploughboy
17. Enfield Wash (tune)
18. Daddy don't go down the mine
19. Lark in the morning

Johnny Adams plays real piano on 'Trip to Brighton', 'Enfield Wash' and Pleal's Allemand.