Chris Roe
A Round for the Company
© 2004 Chris Roe (825346429823)
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Straight-ahead traditional songs and tunes from North America and the British Isles, with contemporary accents. Enhanced and accompanied by concertina, harp, button accordion, guitar and sundry other devices.
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- 1 When I Was In My Prime
- 2 Despairing Lover/Excuse Me
- 3 Bad Boys and Privateers
- 4 Tom Bowline
- 5 Wednesday Night/Northlands/World Turned Upside Down
- 6 Wind River Waltz
- 7 All Among the Barley
- 8 Michael and All Angels
- 9 Saint Malo/Reel des Noces d'Or
- 10 NaCl (Sodium Chloride)
- 11 Hard Times Come Again No More
- 12 La Manfredina/La Rotta della Manfredina
- 13 Smoke on the Wind
- 14 Row On
- 15 A Pilgrim's Way
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Chris Roe is a singer and instrumentalist in the Pacific Northwest with a strong interest in traditional song. With the collaboration of some well-chosen friends, she has pulled together a collection of songs, some from various time-honored traditions, some brand-new, and others somewhere in between.
Interspersed throughout are a few simple settings of country dance tunes, soulful laments, and spirited marches, played on concertina, harp and button accordion, with guitar and hurdy-gurdy backup.
The most contemporary parts of this album still tie in to the sorts of things that people have sung about for centuries: injustice, poetic justice, war, love, the changing of the seasons, and the pleasures of friendships.
They speak about disappointed love (When I Was In My Prime), sub-atomic love (NaCl) and love in all the wrong places (Bad Boys and Privateers). They speak about the bounty of our earth and the personification of the grain-god (All Among the Barley), about the tenuous nature of life in this modern world (Smoke on the Wind), and about hope and faith when times are dark (Row On).
A Round for the Company is an invitation to a celebration of the humanity we all hold in common.