Roots: The Best of Show of Hands

Tracklist

• CD 1: Short Stories
• 1
  Roots
  4:09
• 2
  Are We Alright
  3:04
• 3
  Exile
  3:47
• 4
  Country Life
  3:57
• 5
  Widecombe Fair
  3:26
• 6
  The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe
  5:32
• 7
  Santiago
  6:13
• 8
  Armadas
  4:31
• 9
  The Blue Cockade
  6:01
• 10
  Crow on the Cradle
  4:28
• 11
  The Preacher
  4:25
• 12
  Cousin Jack
  6:50
• 13
  Cold Frontier
  4:15
• 14
  Hard Shoulder
  5:17
• 15
  Captains
  4:03
• 16
  The Galway Farmer
  5:42
• CD 2: Longdogs
• 1
  Columbus (Didn’t Find America)
  5:13
• 2
  You’re Mine
  4:02
• 3
  The Blind Fiddler
  3:48
• 4
  The Setting / Mary From Dungloe
  3:55
• 5
  The Bristol Slaver
  3:52
• 6
  Port Isaac
  4:23
• 7
  The Train / Blackwaterside
  6:51
• 8
  Be Lucky
  5:10
• 9
  Longdog
  2:44
• 10
  The Keeper
  5:02
• 11
  The Downeaster 'Alexa'
  3:10
• 12
  The Oak
  3:03
• 13
  Innocents’ Song / Gwithian
  4:35
• 14
  Tall Ships
  21:56

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Release credits

• Biddy Blyth
  harp [12]
• Brian Dickenson
  harmonica [4]
• Gareth Turner
  diatonic button accordion [16]
• Gerard O'Farrell
  producer [2.1, 2.9, 1.15]
• Ian Cutler
  violin [16]
• Jackie Oates
  violin [6]
• Jim Carter
  spoken vocals [14]
• Lizzie Westcott
  violin [6]
• Matt Clifford
  background vocals [6], co [4], keyboard [2.1, 2.6, 1.2-4, 1.7, 1.10, 1.14], piano [12, 14], producer [1.2-3, 1.7, 1.10, 2.6], vocal [2.1, 1.2, 1.7, 1.10]
• Mick Dolan
  producer [1.4-5, 1.13-14, 2.2, 2.6, 2.8], shakers [14], vocal [14]
• Mike Trim
  percussion [1.8, 2.12], producer [1.8, 2.12], vocal [12]
• Miranda Sykes
  double bass [2.13, 1.6, 1.9, 1.12], vocal [2.13, 1.9]
• Paul Wilson
  background vocals [6], diatonic button accordion [4, 6]
• Pete Zorn
  double bass [1.8, 2.12]
• Phil Beer
  arranger [3-4, 7], classical guitar [8], cuatro [3, 7], diatonic button accordion [12], guitar [1.2, 1.9-11, 1.13-14, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.14], mandocello [1.11, 1.15, 2.8], mandolin [2.6, 2.11, 1.6, 1.12], slide guitar [1, 4], viola [1, 15], violin [2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.9-10, 2.12-14, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.16], vocal [2.1-5, 2.8-9, 2.11-14, 1.1, 1.4, 1.6-10, 1.12, 1.14]
• Roy Martin
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Sally Barker
  vocal [1]
• Seth Lakeman
  tenor guitar [6]
• Show of Hands
  producer [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8-9, 1.4-5, 1.13-14]
• Simon Emmerson
  producer [1.1, 1.6, 2.13]
• Simon Massey
  background vocals [6], bass [1], drum machine [1], percussion [1], producer [1.1, 1.6, 2.13]
• Steve Knightley
  acoustic guitar [1], arranger [3-4, 7], bass [4, 14], concertina [5, 11], cuatro [2.5, 2.12, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.8, 1.11], diatonic button accordion [10, 14], guitar [1.2-3, 1.9, 1.12-16, 2.3, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14], instrument [6], mandocello [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.7, 1.10], vocal [1.1-16, 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7-14]
• The Fisherman’s Friends
  choir vocals [1], vocal [12]
• Tom Palmer
  vocal [12]
• Vladimir Vega
  charango [8], instrument [16], pan flute [1], siku [2.12, 1.8], vocal [8]
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Issues

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  Roots: The Best of Show of Hands

  2x CD
  2007