Bells, Boots and Shambles

by Spirogyra

Bells, Boots and Shambles cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1973
  • Label: Polydor
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: John Boyce, Stan Sulzmann, Dolly Collins, Barbara Gaskin, Max Hole, Henry Lowther, Dave Mattacks, Martin Cockerham, Julian Cusack, Steve Borrill

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Essentially functioning as a duo project between Martin Cockerham and Barbara Gaskin with the assistance of session musicians, this final record is a masterpiece of English underground folk. Intertwining beautiful chamber arrangements with biting, intensely cynical lyricism, it serves as a stark, melancholic critique of modern industrial society.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, medieval, political, folk, literary, british, experimental, acoustic, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. The Furthest Point
  2. Old Boot Wine
  3. Parallel Lines Never Separate
  4. Spiggly
  5. An Everyday Consumption Song
  6. The Sergeant Says
  7. In The Western World
  8. Jungle Lore
  9. Coming Back
  10. Western World Reprise

Credits

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