Strawhead

EST. 1974 // ORIGIN: Preston

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A Hertfordshire Garland

2002 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Queen Eleanors Confession 5:32 2. Doleful Dance and Song of Death 3:25 3. Battle of Barnet 3:49 4. The Spanish Armada 2:22 5. Raleighs Last Goodnight 5:19 6. Babylon is Fallen 2:34 7. Fortune My Foe 2:48 8. The Cricketer 2:22 9. Portsmouths Lamentation 3:57 10. The Whigs Exposed 3:27 11. The Loyal Conquest 2:56 12. Canst thou not weave bonelace 1:52 13. The Hag 5:51 14. Navigation or Canal Fever 3:12 15. Cubitts Treadmill 4:19 16. The Death of Simon Byrne 4:59 17. The Navigators 2:21 18. A Health to Queen Victoria, God Bless Her 1:15 19. Killarney 4:01 20. I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls 3:44 21. Hertfordshire at War 0:56 22. Ovalteenies 0:33

Sweethearts, Salts and Soldiers

2001 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Ten Thousand Miles Away 5:36 2. Soldier Dick 3:05 3. The Greenwich Pensioner 3:49 4. The Flowing Can 3:28 5. The Lass that Loves a Sailor 3:44 6. Tom Tough 3:38 7. The Dream of Napoleon 4:27 8. Done Over 2:48 9. Darby Kelly 3:23 10. Will Watch the Bold Smuggler 4:18 11. The Rose of Allendale 4:26 12. The True Lovers 3:38 13. Rambling Soldier 3:12 14. The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve 4:27 15. Nell Flaherty’s Drake 3:48 16. The Bold Benjamin 3:31

Argent

1999 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Down at the Twist and Shout 3:27 2. Georgia on My Mind 5:36 3. The Only Living Boy in New York 4:00 4. Christmas Eve Can Kill You 3:03 5. Nothing Ever Happens 3:35 6. Two Sleepy People 5:15 7. Free Fallin’ 3:17 8. Linden Lea 2:53 9. Your Feet's Too Big 3:48 10. Between the Wars 3:33 11. Sweet Baby James 3:49 12. Silver Thunderbird 3:13 13. Last Train 6:12 14. The Way Old Friends Do 2:48

Songs of the Civil War

1997 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Marching Along 4:12 2. Vive Le Roy 3:14 3. When Cannons Are Roaring 2:58 4. When the King Enjoys His Own Again 5:25 5. I Live Not Where I Love 4:40 6. A Catch 1:48 7. Hey Then Up We Go 2:26 8. Impossibilities 3:33 9. Malt's Come Down 3:17 10. One Eyed Jack 2:16 11. Ask Me No More 2:52 12. Lament for the Men of Rannoch 3:40 13. Drink Old England Dry 4:29 14. The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant 5:18 15. Madcaps of England 3:10 16. The Fall of Babylon 2:28 17. The Cavalilly Men 2:54 18. Marching Song of the New Model Army 2:41 19. The Battle of Preston 2:46 20. The Saints Encouragement 2:34 21. The Contented 3:13 22. Old England Grown New 4:28 23. Watkins Ale 4:32 24. Monmouth Landed in the West 3:05 25. Over the Hills and Far Away 6:52

A Walled Town and a Ragged Staff

1995 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Guy of Warwick 5:06 2. The Rigs of Warwick Mop 2:25 3. Maid of Dunsmoor 5:17 4. St Georges Commendation 3:08 5. The Battle of Barnet 3:42 6. There was a Jolly Miller 2:23 7. Van Diemans Land 3:48 8. The Receiving of the Queen 3:48 9. Greville XXIII - Merlin 1:44 10. Midsummer Riding 2:53 11. Babylon is Fallen 1:57 12. The Great Fire of Warwick 3:58 13. The Navigators 2:28 14. Warwick Castle 3:56 15. A New Song in Praise of Lovett and Collins 3:19 16. An Health to Queen Victoria, God Bless Her 1:18 17. The Bank Crash 3:41 18. Country Hirings 5:18 19. Warwickshire at War - A Medley 7:48 20. Ye Warwickshire Lads and Your Lasses 3:30

Victorian Ballads

1994 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Smart Young Bachelors 2:33 2. Uncle Ned 3:48 3. Lovely Nancy 2:55 4. The Steam Packet 5:33 5. Oh Have You Seen My Pussy 4:15 6. Now Westlin Winds 5:30 7. The Glasses Sparkle 3:07 8. The Blackbird 4:46 9. Seaport Town of Manchester 3:54 10. The Vegetable Pills 3:51 11. Purty Molly Bralaghan 2:51 12. John White the Hussar 4:25 13. Philadelphia Lass 3:40 14. The Fit Comes on Me Now 2:00 15. Ward the Pirate 2:53 16. Cheer Cheer Cheer 3:26 17. Preston Guild 1882 3:23

Tiffin

1990 // FULL-LENGTH

1. The Old Blue Lion 4:05 2. The Good Fellow’s Advice 3:56 3. John Hadland’s Advice 6:19 4. Have Some Madiera, My Dear 4:29 5. Nick and Froth 5:22 6. Master Malt He is a Gentleman 3:02 7. Captain Stratton's Fancy 3:28 8. A Health to All Good Fellows 5:24 9. The Beggar Comes 5:07 10. A Satyr against Coffee - John Barleycorn 6:59 11. Ben Backstay, the Boatswain 2:16

A New Vintage

1989 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Eldorado 5:05 2. Raleighs Last Goodnight 5:45 3. The Bold Benjamin 3:31 4. Trafalgar 5:00 5. The Careless Gallant 3:52 6. When the King Enjoys His Own Again 5:27 7. Napoleon on St Helena 4:24 8. Watkins Ale 4:37 9. Where Golden Grass Doth Grow 6:48 10. Flodden Field 3:11 11. Rochester Recruiting Sergeant 5:19 12. Corpus Christi 4:16 13. Admiral Benbow 4:15 14. The Burial of Sir John Moore 6:03 15. Charm - Witches' Song 7:01 16. Spanish Ladies 5:45 17. Malt's Come Down 3:08 18. Over the Hills and Far Away 6:54

Law Lies Bleeding

1987 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Impossibilities 3:23 2. The Power of the Sword 4:22 3. A Mad World My Masters 4:28 4. A Marching Song of the New Model Army 4:23 5. Ask Me No More / Jamaica 2:53 6. Sceptres and Crowns 4:56 7. A Catch 2:23 8. The Contented 3:13 9. Old England Turned New 4:30 10. I Live Not Where I Love 4:41 11. When Cannons Are Roaring 3:35 12. The Royal Head Is Severed 5:20

Sedgemoor

1985 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Intro - The Road That Leads to Sedgemoor 1:45 2. Brave Monmouth - Englands Glory 3:53 3. The Plotting Cards 2:29 4. Englands Triumph or the Subjects Joy 3:44 5. My Opinion 2:29 6. An Epigram on the Death of Charles II 2:51 7. Monmouth Landed in the West 3:45 8. Monmouths Come to Norton Town 3:20 9. Scotch Song 1679 3:55 10. Sedgemoor - Night March and the Battle 8:28 11. The Death of Monmouth 5:12 12. March From the Funeral of Queen Mary 1:00 13. The Road That Leads to Sedgemoor 4:32

Gentlemen of Fortune

1984 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Eldorado 5:07 2. The Mariners Song 3:16 3. A Toye 1:14 4. Colonising Virginia 3:14 5. Spagnoletta - The Spanish Armada 3:04 6. Adieu to Old England 6:45 7. Grenville and the Revenge 5:03 8. A Dreame 1:21 9. The Madre de Dios 3:54 10. Almande for James I 0:44 11. Fortune My Foe - Raleighs Last Goodnight 5:48 12. When Golden Grass Doth Grow 1:40 13. Spanish Ladies 5:39

Through Smoke and Fire

1982 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Atte Ye Hoppe 2:13 2. This Little Barleycorn 3:00 3. General Wolfe 5:10 4. Noble Arghyll 4:18 5. The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna 6:14 6. Where Golden Grass Doth Grow 6:56 7. I’m Adoun for lack of Johnny 2:58 8. A Poor but Honest Soldier 3:56 9. The Duke of Monmouth’s Lamentation 4:02 10. The Sussex Toast 5:08

Songs From the Book of England

1980 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Drink Old England Dry 4:51 2. Who Liveth So Merry 2:53 3. The Battle of Waterloo 6:44 4. John Barleycorn 5:14 5. Clever Tom Clinch 4:16 6. Cap La Hogue 3:17 7. The Death of Lord Nelson 9:15 8. Concerto di Cornetto 2:54 9. The Jingo Song 4:09 10. Monmouth 4:23

Fortunes of War

1978 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Sinfonia: Glory of the North 1:10 2. Interludium - The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant 6:11 3. King Williams March 1:14 4. Marlboroughs Health 2:36 5. The Battle of Oudenarde 2:55 6. Adagio - Over the Hills and Far Away 8:09 7. The Careless Gallant 4:14 8. Stout Seamen Bold 4:55 9. The Winning of Cales 5:18 10. Intelude - Napoleon on St Helena 5:00 11. Charm 2:43 12. Courante CXVII 1:14

Farewell Musket, Pike & Drum

1977 // FULL-LENGTH

1. Malts Come Down 3:20 2. Flodden Field 3:35 3. Watkin’s Ale 4:44 4. Cawsand Bay 3:35 5. Admiral Benbow 4:10 6. When the King Enjoys His Own Again 5:30 7. The Witches’ Song 5:00 8. The Bonny Bunch of Roes 5:15 9. Grand Conversation on Napoleon 9:05 10. Corpus Christi 4:05 11. Madcaps of England 3:30