Maddy Prior
kris...@cerritos.edu
I'm looking for information on Maddy Prior. I'm familiar with her work
with Steeleye Span, and I love it. But what has she done outside of
that band? Thanks in advance.
Little Pine Weasel
Judy Miller
I just got "Silly Sisters" who are Maddy Prior and June Tabor.
Great CD!
Judy
Ken Josenhans
>I'm looking for information on Maddy Prior. I'm familiar with her work
>with Steeleye Span, and I love it. But what has she done outside of
>that band? Thanks in advance.
On a floppy somewhere I've got a Prior discography from around 1988, but
it'll be two weeks before I have a chance to dig it up. So, in the
best tradition of the net, I'll wing it... :-)
Late 60's-early 70's:
1) FOLK SONGS OF OLD ENGLAND, VOLUME I
2) FOLK SONGS OF OLD ENGLAND, VOLUME II
3) SUMMER SOLSTICE
Before Steeleye Span, Maddy Prior and Tim Hart recorded two albums of
fairly traditional folk songs. These have recently come back into
print in the UK, I hear. The duo made an excellent third album
in the early Steeleye days, and this one's in print in the US on the
Shanachie label.
mid 70's:
4) SILLY SISTERS
Near the peak of Steeleye's career, Maddy Prior recorded a fabulous
duet album with June Tabor. This one's essential. In the US, it has
been kept in print through three different record companies, and
today it's on Shanachie.
Late 70's - mid 80's:
5) WOMAN IN THE WINGS
6) CHANGING WINDS
7) HOOKED ON WINNING by the Maddy Prior Band
8) GOING FOR GLORY by Maddy Prior & The Answers
Around the time Steeleye broke up, Maddy Prior started a solo career.
Most of these albums were not very good, none were ever issued in the USA,
and all of them are out of print, to the best of my knowledge.
late 80's:
9) NO MORE TO THE DANCE by Silly Sisters
Prior seemed to rejuvenate a fading career by re-teaming with June Tabor
to record her best album in a decade, maybe 70% as good as the
original Silly Sisters album. In print in the US on Shanachie.
late 80's-today:
10) A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS by Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band (Saydisc)
11) SING LUSTILY & WITH GOOD COURAGE by Prior & T.C.B. (Saydisc)
12) HAPPY FAMILIES by Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp (Park)
13) CAROLS AND CAPERS by Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band (Park)
Steeleye Span seems to be an occasional project; but I get the impression
that Prior's true love these days is in working on religious songs with
an early music group called The Carnival Band. Items #10 and #13 are
recordings of Christmas songs. Prior has also recorded an album with
Steeleye bassist Rick Kemp which strikes me as another generic pop album,
continuing the line of albums from #5-#8 above. The Prior/Kemp album
is available as a domestic release in the US; everything else, when you
can find it, is an import from the UK.
One valuable item I've omitted from the lists above is LOVELY IN THE DANCES
-- THE SONGS OF SYDNEY CARTER, by various all-stars from the English
folk-rock scene and other places. Maddy Prior sings about five lead vocals
on this excellent album; other culprits include Rick Kemp, John Kirkpatrick,
Shusha. (Was Martin Carthy in on this one? I think so.)
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Jonathan Delatizky
>In article <1992Jul8.0...@cerritos.edu> kris...@cerritos.edu writes:
>>I'm looking for information on Maddy Prior. I'm familiar with her work
>>with Steeleye Span, and I love it. But what has she done outside of
>>that band? Thanks in advance.
>On a floppy somewhere I've got a Prior discography from around 1988, but
>it'll be two weeks before I have a chance to dig it up. So, in the
>best tradition of the net, I'll wing it... :-)
[....]
>Late 70's - mid 80's:
> 5) WOMAN IN THE WINGS
> 6) CHANGING WINDS
> 7) HOOKED ON WINNING by the Maddy Prior Band
> 8) GOING FOR GLORY by Maddy Prior & The Answers
>Around the time Steeleye broke up, Maddy Prior started a solo career.
>Most of these albums were not very good, none were ever issued in the USA,
>and all of them are out of print, to the best of my knowledge.
8 (at least) was in print in the US briefly, and unfortunately. I
bought it and have regretted doing so ever since it first hit the
turntable. The first side contains some fairly dull pop-ish stuff;
the second is a rock-ish suite about a person whose life is empty
and who then finds God. Heavy duty religious propaganda, in other
words. Hence also the cute name of the backup band - no prizes for
guessing what kind of answer Maddy was after here.
>late 80's:
> 9) NO MORE TO THE DANCE by Silly Sisters
>Prior seemed to rejuvenate a fading career by re-teaming with June Tabor
>to record her best album in a decade, maybe 70% as good as the
>original Silly Sisters album. In print in the US on Shanachie.
I personally rate this one at about 115% of the original. Perhaps
having it on CD (but _Silly Sisters_ on a worn Takoma LP, with the
attendant loss in sound quality) may have something to do with my
rating.
>One valuable item I've omitted from the lists above is LOVELY IN THE DANCES
>-- THE SONGS OF SYDNEY CARTER, by various all-stars from the English
>folk-rock scene and other places. Maddy Prior sings about five lead vocals
>on this excellent album; other culprits include Rick Kemp, John Kirkpatrick,
>Shusha. (Was Martin Carthy in on this one? I think so.)
I think so, too. I don't have it, however, so can't check, unless
Colm included it in one of his discographies.
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Martin K. Jones
And don't forget her vocals on Mike Oldfield's _Incantations_.
Jon Berger
>
>And don't forget her vocals on Mike Oldfield's _Incantations_.
And she did vocals on at least one Jethro Tull album; can't remember which
though. There's just no end to the woman's talents...
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The Man from Another Place
} Late 60's-early 70's:
} 1) FOLK SONGS OF OLD ENGLAND, VOLUME I
} 2) FOLK SONGS OF OLD ENGLAND, VOLUME II
} 3) SUMMER SOLSTICE
} Before Steeleye Span, Maddy Prior and Tim Hart recorded two albums of
} fairly traditional folk songs. These have recently come back into
} print in the UK, I hear.
Make that a definite yes. I picked up one of them on import CD a couple
of weeks ago.
In article <1992Jul8.2...@pony.Ingres.COM>, jo...@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger) writes...
} In article <1992Jul8.1...@cis.uab.edu>, mar...@sec.dom.uab.edu (Martin K. Jones) writes:
}} And don't forget her vocals on Mike Oldfield's _Incantations_.
} And she did vocals on at least one Jethro Tull album; can't remember
} which though.
She also did one song on the concept album FLASH FEARLESS VS. THE ZORG
WOMEN, PARTS 5 & 6 (no, I'm *not* kidding).
--
"She's my radiation baby.
She's my teenage fallout girl."
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)
Magnus Ring
> On a floppy somewhere I've got a Prior discography from around 1988, but
> it'll be two weeks before I have a chance to dig it up. So, in the
> best tradition of the net, I'll wing it... :-)
>
> 5) WOMAN IN THE WINGS
> 6) CHANGING WINDS
> 7) HOOKED ON WINNING by the Maddy Prior Band
> 8) GOING FOR GLORY by Maddy Prior & The Answers
> Around the time Steeleye broke up, Maddy Prior started a solo career.
> Most of these albums were not very good, none were ever issued in the
USA,
> and all of them are out of print, to the best of my knowledge.
>
records and that Muddy sings a duet with Annie Lennox on it to.
Is it 7) or 8), and is the album any good?
/Magnus Ring
Dennis Davis
Well others have given you a good summary of Maddy Prior's other
album releases. However she does appear to get involved with other
things over here. Maddy Prior also hosts radio programmes, albeit on
an infrequent basis. Last October she co-hosted one of the Sunday
night Radio 2 arts programmes. The programme was two hours long.
Maddy and Linda Freeman, an American psychologist, were discussing
the underlying allegories of English ballads using the theories of
Jung. A variety of examples were used.
Last night Maddy started a new series of six half-hour programmes on
Radio 2. The series is titled "In Good Voice". She is discussing,
with examples, a capella singing. The examples are drawn from
several spheres. So far we've had folk music, popular music, church
singing etc. Well, I think we have. I was doing something else at
the time so wasn't listening that closely. It is just as well I
recorded it so I can listen to it again.
--
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
D.H....@bath.ac.uk ...!uunet!mcsun!ukc!gdr!D.H.Davis
Carl E. Anderson
>And she did vocals on at least one Jethro Tull album; can't remember which
>though. There's just no end to the woman's talents...
On the album _Too_Old_Too_Rock'n'Roll:_Too_Young_Too_Die_, Maddy
sings backup for a few lines on the title track.
Carl Anderson
Stephen Saroff
Does anyone know if and when she might be coming on Tour in the US with
or without the Steel Eye Span
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Judy Miller
I'm NOT familiar with her work on Steeleye Span.
What are some suggestions for CD's by Steeleye Span.
I've got lots of traditional celtic CD's, but my favorite stuff is with
female vocal and kind of haunting (like Loreena McKinnett or Enya or even Kate
Bush).
Judy
Magnus Ring
>
> I'm NOT familiar with her work on Steeleye Span.
> What are some suggestions for CD's by Steeleye Span.
> I've got lots of traditional celtic CD's, but my favorite stuff is with
> female vocal and kind of haunting (like Loreena McKinnett or Enya or
even Kate
> Bush).
>
> Judy
Hi Judy!
A good start if you haven't heard Steeleye Span before is the CD
'Steeleye Span - The Collection' (Castle Communications CCSCD 292).
There also is a double album with their best songs called 'Masterworks'
wich I think have been released on CD.
Otherwise I'm not sure what albums you can find on CD (I'd be glad if
anyone could tell me). Anyway, the albums I like best are 'Parcel of
Rogues', 'All Around My Hat', 'Rocket Cottage', 'Below the Salt' and
'Commoners Crown', but all of there records are worth buying actually.
/Magnus Ring
Fil Feit
Washington DC public radio, Sunday, 19 Jul, WETA (90.9 or so) will play
2 hours of Steeleye Span from 3-5PM. It's the feature this week on a
show called "Songs For Aging Children".
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