Job of Journey Work

Robin Williamson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pig's Whisker UK
• ASIN: B00000DC6A
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #536,958 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Banks Of Bunclody

2. Hard Times In Old England/Monie Musk

3. Geordie Gordon

4. The Black Horse

5. William Taylor

6. Nottamun Town

7. The May Morning Dew

8. Bold Riley-O

9. These Old Shoes/Miss Macleod's Reel

10. Riding Down To Portsmouth

11. Ye've Lain Wrang

12. A Job Of Journey Work

13. The Streams Of Lovely Nancy

14. Brown Skin Girl

15. Hughie The Graham

16. Toderoday

17. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

18. Rothesay Bay

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Williamson's Rough Bardic Voice Enchants, August 31, 2002

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Sires "I enjoy mysteries, historical and proc... (Chesapeake, OH, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Job of Journey Work (Audio CD)

I received this CD 2 days ago and have listed to it four times already. I first ran into Robin williamson on the Flying Fish Label with his Songs of Love and Parting. I found myself enjoying Williamson's smokey voice-- I would call it a whiskey voice-- melodic but with a distinct burr to the edge.

It works very well to make this collection of traditional songs a very pleasurable listening experience

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Williamson leaves his mark on all songs, October 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Job of Journey Work (Audio CD)

"A Job of Journey Work" is a fine collection of traditionals, all of which are meaningful to Williamson himself - as he states in the accompanying booklet, which also features a rare family portrait and a photo of a beaming Robin posing with his wife Bina. All 18 songs get the familiar Williamson treatment, some with more surprising arrangements than others.

His family members also have a part to play on this cd, most notably his wife and daughter. Their vocal contributions, though charming, only fare well with "Hard times in Old England", I'm afraid.

For me, the winners in this collection are "William Taylor", "The May Morning Dew", "A Job of Journey Work", "The Banks of Bunclody", "Rothesay Bay" and the more unusual "Brown Skin Girl". Some songs are a marriage between the tune of one song and the lyrics of another - but why ? And is this a sound strategy ?

In all, this is a very enjoyable cd which all Williamson fans should buy (they've got a lot to buy these days)- but I hope he considers this a nice diversion and continues on the tale-telling track of "Mirrorman's Sequences" and "Gems of Celtic Story" - for it seems to me that after his great and glorious journeys into the realm of Music, he must inevitably turn towards his homeland - the Land of Myth and Story.

Hans Wigman