Airs & Graces

June Tabor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 30, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B000000E7K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,419 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #7 in Music > Indie Music > New Age > Celtic
  • #7 in Music > Indie Music > New Age > International
  • #75 in Music > Folk > British & Celtic Folk > British Folk

Track Listings

1. While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping

2. Plains of Waterloo

3. Bonny May

4. Reynardine

5. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

6. Young Waters

7. Waly Waly

8. The Merchant's Son

9. Queen Among the Heather

10. Pull Down Lads

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a pinnacle, April 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Airs & Graces (Audio CD)

June Tabor has been an admirably adventurous interpreter of songs traditonal, and otherwise, for three decades. Looking back over her career "Airs and Graces" remains its high water mark. Nowhere did her sumptous dark tone feel more moving and less monotonous than on this collection. She performs a number of familar and less familar traditional tunes with, on this disc, not only her trademark sense of purposeful gravity but a lightening grace of effort. Her intrepretive surety here even manages to breathe new drama in an old chestnut like "Waltzing Matilda." One track that remains, listen after listen, transcendent for me is "Pull Down Lads." In a deceptively simple reading of a tale that is ostensibly about the dismantling of a country carnival, Tabor manages to transmit a haunting and profound meditation on death, love and leave-taking. It is an interpretation that each time I hear it leaves me in a contemplative and still state of mind pondering --dare I say-- that which truly matters. It's a fully realized recording for any fan of traditional singing or anyone interested in the art of the song.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of a Stellar Career, December 9, 2004

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This review is from: Airs & Graces (Audio CD)

This is Tabor's debut album and in many ways, hard to top. She's defined her style here: lush vocalization with ascetic arrangements. I think she does Eric Bogle better than Bogle himself. Her version of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is the best I have heard. She tackles out of the way topics with her own flair. "Pull Down Lads" talks of the crew of carnies who close a fair down. Her "Waly Waly" ("The Water is Wide" is also not-to-be missed. If you are considering Tabor, start with this album!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Vocals!, October 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Airs & Graces (Audio CD)

June Tabor has a voice and style unsurpassed by anyone in any musical category.If you are already a traditional music fan I suggest you buy all the recordings of her you can find.