Rocket Cottage

by Steeleye Span

Rocket Cottage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 September 1976
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:23
  • Community rating: 3.27/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Mike Batt

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Seeking to capitalize on their recent mainstream successes, the British folk-rock pioneers deliver their most heavily amplified and rock-oriented album to date. Traditional songs and ballads are treated with aggressive electric guitar phrasing and booming rhythm tracks, fully completing their transition from traditional acoustic revivalists to stadium rock contenders.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk

Tracklist

  1. London (4:00)
  2. The Bosnian Hornpipes (0:53)
  3. Orfeo / Nathan's Reel (5:33)
  4. The Twelve Witches (4:26)
  5. The Brown Girl (4:58)
  6. Fighting For Strangers (4:05)
  7. Sligo Maid (5:57)
  8. Sir James The Rose (6:00)
  9. The Drunkard (5:31)

Credits

  • Steeleye Span - primary artist, music by, arranged by, written-by, arranged by
  • Bob Johnson - performer
  • Maddy Prior - performer
  • Nigel Pegrum - performer
  • Peter Knight - performer
  • Rick Kemp - performer
  • Tim Hart - performer
  • Eddy Gorecki - plated by

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