Hang Up Sorrow and Care
Hang Up Sorrow and Care is an album by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. Released in 1995, it is a loose concept album, with renditions of songs that were written hundreds of years ago.
Critical reception
Stereo Review stated: "Ballads and dances to the heart and the bottle are expertly played in a trad setting that features such instruments as lute, recorder, hoboy, curtal, kazoo, and 'ye great dooble bass'." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch deemed Hang Up Sorrow and Care "the most inspired drinking album of the digital era."AllMusic wrote that "Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band have made a real party album, of witty, upbeat traditional songs from the British Isles."
Track listing
- Prodigal's Resolution
- 5 Playford Tunes
- The World is Turned Upside Down
- Jovial Beggar
- Leathern Bottle
- Iantha
- An Thou were my ain Thing
- Oh that I had but a Fine Man
- Now O Now I needs must part
- Man is for the Woman made
- A Northern Catche/The Little Barleycorne
- Granny's Delight/My Lady Foster's Delight
- A Round of Three Country Dances in One
- Youth's the Season Made for Joys
- In The Days of my Youth
- Never weatherbeaten sail
- Old Simon the King
Personnel
- Maddy Prior - vocals
- William Badley - baroque guitar, lute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Davis - Double Bass
- Giles Lewin - violin, recorders, hoboy, mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Watts - Flemish bagpipes, shalman, curtals, recorders, melodica, kazoo, vocals
- Rafaello Mizraki - drums, percussion, cello, Hammond organ, vocals
- Arrangements by Andrew Watts