Ashes & Diamonds [Original recording reissued]

June Tabor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Green Linnet
• ASIN: B000005CSW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,714 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #75 in Music > Indie Music > New Age > Celtic
  • #89 in Music > Indie Music > New Age > International

Track Listings

1. Reynard the Fox

2. The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn

3. Streets of Forbes

4. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight

5. Now I'm Easy

6. Clerk Saunders

7. The Earl of Aboyne

8. Lisbon

9. The Easter Tree

10. Cold and Raw

11. No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you like Traditional folk, this is a MUST!, June 9, 1998

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[e-mail] (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ashes & Diamonds (Audio CD)

If you like Traditional Folk, this CD is a must. June Tabor has a rich, sulty contralto that lends itself best to this type of music.

Songs vary from three-handkerchief tearjerkers to bright and funny. FLOWERS OF THE FOREST is the definitive version of this eulogy for lost soldiers. DEVIL AND BISHOP MCGLYNN is hilarious!

It's solid enjoyment from the first to last cuts.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly diverse, March 18, 2004

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mianfei - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ashes & Diamonds (Audio CD)

Recently deleted, June Tabor's second serious album, whilst lacking the amazing beauty of her masterpieces Aqaba and Angel Tiger, possessed a surpring diversity of material that was put together with the care good music deserves.

The opener "Reynard The Fox" was in fact more effective than Tabor's earlier collaboration Silly Sisters in giving her music a lighter feel, whilst the accessible "Now I'm Easy" showed that Tabor never had to sing desolate, dark music to be effective, whilst the Australian-themed "Streets Of Forbes" showed an echo of her classic 1990s style with its sparse, even hushed piano. The follow-up (in theme as well as on the record) "Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight" featured some beautiful, harpsichord-like guitar from Nic Jones that gave a cathedral feel Tabor would never replicate, but her soft voice was in prime form.

"Clerk Saunders" was a long and not altogether memorable a capella piece, but Tabor more than made up for it with "The Earl Of Aboyne", which illustrted the darkness inherent in ancient England like few other songs, and the earthy closer "No Man's Land"/"Flowers Of The Forest". The synthesiser of the former song sounded remarkably unlike pop, but rather like guitar or even horn effects, whilst Jon Gillespie showed himself to be as good a pianist as Huw Warren was later. Tabor gave an oddly eccentric, echo-like vocal on the a capella "The Easter Tree" to round off an album that perhaps deserves more acclaim.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Folk, April 17, 2002

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Scarlett Witman (Reading, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ashes & Diamonds (Audio CD)

if you like english folk, this C.D. is the one for you. June's voice is earthy,the perfect voice for singing folk music. I especially like, Cold and Raw and The Earl of Aboyne. you will not be disappointed with this album, if you like the folk sound.