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TRADArrr’s third album, once again finds the septet’s assembled members taking traditional folk songs by the scruff of the neck and giving them a good shaking.  They kick off with Marion Fleetwood’s arrangement of ‘Rose Of Allendale’, a number sought out that pointedly didn’t include a murder, shipwreck, abandoned lover, cross-dressing or a hanging. Credited to Charles Jeffreys sometime in the 1840s and, as the title clearly illustrates, set in Northumbria, the enduring, supportive love lyrics are sourced from versions by Mary Black and The Dubliners and given a full-on folk tumbling melody pop tune by Fleetwood, complete with some rousing brass from PJ Wright and Mark Stevens.

The pace and mood switch strikingly as, Gregg Cave taking lead, puttering hand percussion and lively fiddle introduce Wright and Stevens’s lope-along drums bolstered spin on ‘The Barley Straw’, returning to more familiar folk ballad tropes of some noble squire disguising himself as a tinker and relieving an innocent farmer’s lass of her maidenhood and leaving her pregnant. And from farmer’s daughter, Cave again on vocals, they proceed to ‘A Country Farmer’s Son’, a number of uncertain origin about being at ease with your lot, Mark Stevens giving it a heads down rock and riff arrangement a la Free’s ‘All Right Now’ complete with a slide guitar solo from Wright and Mike Stevens on baritone sax.


Tracks:  
01 The Rose of Allendale
02 The Barley Straw
03 A Country Farmer's Son
04 Lovers' Lament
05 Mary of the Silvery Tide
06 Shore to Shore
07 The Blacksmith
08 Mary Neal
09 Cold Blows the Wind
10 The Mare and the Foal
11 Staunton Whale

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