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Steeleye Span: Dodgy Bastards

On November 25, 2016, “Park” label released “Dodgy Bastards”, the twenty-third Steeleye Span album. The album draws on the work of 19th century American scholar Francis James Child’s and his collection of English and Scottish Ballads.

Personnel:

  1. Maddy Prior – vocals
  2. Julian Littman – vocals, guitars, mandolin, keyboards
  3. Spud Sinclair – vocals, guitars
  4. Jessie May Smart – vocals, violin
  5. Rick Kemp – vocals, bass
  6. Liam Genockey – drums, percussion

Track listing:

  1. Cruel Brother
  2. All Things Are Quite Silent
  3. Johnnie Armstrong
  4. Boys Of Bedlam
  5. Brown Robin’s Confession
  6. Two Sisters
  7. Cromwell’s Skull
  8. Dodgy Bastards
  9. Gulliver Gentle And Rosemary
  10. The Gardener
  11. Bad Bones
  12. The Lofty Tall Ship / Shallow Brown

Ravi Shankar

On December 11, 2012, Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury aka Ravi Shankar died aged 92. Shankar was world renowned composer, musician, performer and scholar of Indian classical music. In his long and distinguished career, through teaching, performances, and cooperation with Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison, Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra. His career includes numerous recordings and performances at all the world’s leading venues.