Ballads and Candles


Ballads and Candles is an album by Maddy Prior.
It was recorded from concert performances during a tour of Cambridge, London and Warwick in 1999/2000 and released on CD in 2000.
The songs are drawn from all of Maddy's career. June Tabor joins in for three songs from "Silly Sisters:" "Singing The Travels", "My Husband's Got No Courage In Him" and "Doffing Mistress." Maddy sings one song about her daughter Rose, and another about her son Alex. There is also a DVD of the same performances, which includes song introductions not on the CD version. "Sing, Sing All Earth" is a song that Maddy had not previously recorded, sung a cappella by the entire ensemble.

Track listing

  1. The Blacksmith
  2. Blood and Gold / Mohacs
  3. Boar's Head
  4. A Virgin Most Pure
  5. All In The Morning
  6. Sing, Sing All Earth
  7. Doffing Mistress
  8. Betsy Bell and Mary Gray
  9. Hind Horn
  10. Singing The Travels
  11. Long Shadows
  12. The King
  13. Rose
  14. Mother and Child
  15. Alex
  16. My Husband's Got No Courage In Him
  17. Blackleg Miner
  18. Padstow May Song

Personnel