The Best of Steeleye Span

by Steeleye Span

The Best of Steeleye Span cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 26 August 2002
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:17:50
  • Community rating: 3.23/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Ken Nicol

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Best of Steeleye Span' is a compilation by Steeleye Span, drawing together british folk rock material in a single archival collection. Its writing and arrangement foreground acoustic, storytelling led songwriting, keeping the focus on the sound and construction of the material itself.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, acoustic, ballad, storytelling, personal

Tracklist

  1. Gaudete (2:26)
  2. Saucy Sailor (5:49)
  3. Jigs (3:10)
  4. Royal Forester (4:32)
  5. Dark Eyed Sailor (6:01)
  6. Alison Gross (5:25)
  7. One Misty Moisty Morning (3:30)
  8. Bold Poachers (4:15)
  9. Thomas The Rhymer (3:15)
  10. To Know Him Is To Love Him (2:42)
  11. Drink Down The Moon (6:26)
  12. Now We Are Six (2:21)
  13. New York Girls (3:02)
  14. Little Sir Hugh (4:44)
  15. Black Jack Davy (4:17)
  16. Hard Times Of Old England (5:12)
  17. Cadgwith Anthem (2:45)
  18. Dance With Me (3:52)
  19. All Around My Hat (4:06)

Credits

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