Galleries

by The Young Tradition

Galleries cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Transatlantic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 38:08
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Galleries' expands The Young Tradition's distinctive approach to English folk music by incorporating subtle instrumental accompaniment alongside their signature a cappella polyphony. The trio effectively revives historical ballads with a striking, medieval-influenced harmonic intensity.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, a-cappella, acoustic, melodic, polyphonic, folklore, folk, traditional, british, vocal, harmonies

Tracklist

  1. Introductia (1:02)
  2. The Barley Straw (2:18)
  3. What If a Day (2:15)
  4. The Loyal Lover (1:43)
  5. Entracte: Stones in My Passway (1:04)
  6. Idumea (2:11)
  7. The Husbandman and the Servingman (4:15)
  8. The Rolling of the Stones (0:59)
  9. The Bittery Withy (2:20)
  10. The Banks of the Nile (2:09)
  11. Wondrous Love (2:48)
  12. Medieval Mystery Tour (2:15)
  13. Divertissement: Upon The Bough (0:32)
  14. Ratcliff Highway (1:58)
  15. The Brisk Young Widow (1:50)
  16. Interlude: The Pembroke Unique Ensemble (1:13)
  17. John Barleycorn (2:28)
  18. The Agincourt Carol (4:40)

Credits

  • The Young Tradition - primary artist
  • Dolly Collins - arranged by, portative organ
  • William Watters - cover
  • Dave Swarbrick - fiddle, mandolin
  • Christopher Hogwood - percussion
  • David Munrow - shawm
  • Adam Skeaping - violin
  • Roderick Skeaping - violin
  • Bill Leader - producer

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