Casey's Last Ride [Live][#] - June Tabor, Kristofferson, Kris
What Will We Do? - June Tabor, Traditional
Skewball [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
The Week Before Easter [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Strange Affair - June Tabor, Thompson, Richard [
Sir Patrick Spens - June Tabor, Tabor
Gypsum Davey [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Buried in Kilkenny [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Behind the Wall [Live][#] - June Tabor, Chapman, Tracy [1]
Zaida's Poem [Live][#] - June Tabor, Stock, Morris
Young Johnstone [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Mississippi Summer - June Tabor, Kahn, Si
A Place Called England - June Tabor, Holland, Maggie
Track Listings (16) - Disc #2
I Never Thought My Love Would Leave Me - June Tabor, Traditional
Beat the Retreat - June Tabor, Thompson, Richard [
Fine Horseman [Live][#] - June Tabor, Waterson, Lal
The Overgate - June Tabor, Traditional
The Fair Maid of Wallington - June Tabor, Traditional
Meditation [Live][#] - June Tabor, Gimbel, Norman
Geordie - June Tabor, Traditional
All This Useless Beauty [Live][#] - June Tabor, MacManus, Declan
Love Henry/The Cherokee Shuffle - June Tabor, Traditional
Illusions [Live][#] - June Tabor, Hollaender, Frieder
Four Loom Weaver [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
I Will Put My Ship in Order - June Tabor, Traditional
Cold and Raw/Down the Hill [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
The Nurse, Dorothy Nicol/The Long Long Trail/The Reaper [Live][#] - June Tabor, Caddick, Bill
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - June Tabor, Bogle, Eric
Maybe Then I'll Be a Rose - June Tabor, Barker, Les
Track Listings (17) - Disc #3
April Morning [Live] - June Tabor, Traditional
Johnny O'Bredislee/Glory of the West [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Singing the Travels - June Tabor, Traditional
Waiting for the Lark - June Tabor, Caddick, Bill
10,000 Miles - June Tabor, Traditional
Hungting the Cutty Wren - June Tabor, Barker, Les
Willie Taylor [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Bonny May - June Tabor, Traditional
Aqaba - June Tabor, Caddick, Bill
Anachie Gordon [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Reynardine [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Pharaoh [Live][#] - June Tabor, Thompson, Richard [
Belle Rose - June Tabor, Traditional
Will Ye Go to Flanders [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Shallow Brown [Live] - June Tabor, Traditional
Now I'm Easy - June Tabor, Bogle, Eric
Track Listings (17) - Disc #4
Mrs. Rita [#] - June Tabor, Thompson, Richard [
All Tomorrow's Parties - June Tabor, Reed, Lou
The Wind and Rain/The Falls of Richmond [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Bonnie James Campbell - June Tabor, Tabor
A Proper Sort of Gardener - June Tabor, Holland, Maggie
The Royal Oak [Live][#][Outtake] - June Tabor, Traditional
False False - June Tabor, Traditional
Roseville Fair [#][Outtake] - June Tabor, Barker, Les
Eights and Aces - June Tabor, Caddick, Bill
The Baker - June Tabor, Stevenson, Savourna
This Is Always - June Tabor, Gordon, Marc [LeVer
Queen Cruelty [Live][#] - June Tabor, Barker, Les
Joe Peel - June Tabor, Bond, Peter
All Our Trades Are Gone [Live][#] - June Tabor, Fitzgerald, Mick
Virginia's Bloody Soil [Live][#] - June Tabor, Traditional
Hug Pine [Live][#] - June Tabor, Pukwana, Dudu
The Late Passenger/Unicorns [Live][#] - June Tabor, Caddick, Bill
Tabor is a Popular and Critical Folk Favourite, Having Won the BBC Radio Two Award for Best Folk Singer in 2004. Her Many Albums have all Garnered Generous Praise, with the Greatest Accolades Heaped Upon her 2004 Album "an... more » Echo of Hooves" from Such Important Sources as the Sunday Times ("Outstanding?the Year's Finest Folk Record") and Mojo ( "?majestic?a Stunner"). This Box is a Treasury of Riches, Including Key Tracks, Live and Unreleased Songs and Collaborations with Maddy Prior, the Oyster Band, Martin Simpson and More. Careful Attention Has Been Paid to the Sound Remastering which Brings New Life to the Recordings. Includes a 48 Page Booklet with Many Previously Unseen Photographs, a Comprehensive Biographical Essay with Many Quotations and Observations by June Herself and Complete Notes on all the Songs and Performances by June and Others. Almost Five Hours on Four Cds, 67 Tracks, 32 Previously Unreleased.« less
Tabor is a Popular and Critical Folk Favourite, Having Won the BBC Radio Two Award for Best Folk Singer in 2004. Her Many Albums have all Garnered Generous Praise, with the Greatest Accolades Heaped Upon her 2004 Album "an Echo of Hooves" from Such Important Sources as the Sunday Times ("Outstanding?the Year's Finest Folk Record") and Mojo ( "?majestic?a Stunner"). This Box is a Treasury of Riches, Including Key Tracks, Live and Unreleased Songs and Collaborations with Maddy Prior, the Oyster Band, Martin Simpson and More. Careful Attention Has Been Paid to the Sound Remastering which Brings New Life to the Recordings. Includes a 48 Page Booklet with Many Previously Unseen Photographs, a Comprehensive Biographical Essay with Many Quotations and Observations by June Herself and Complete Notes on all the Songs and Performances by June and Others. Almost Five Hours on Four Cds, 67 Tracks, 32 Previously Unreleased.
CD Reviews
Fantastic collection
E. Blake | Bronx, NY United States | 02/28/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"June Tabor is my favorite folk singer, and I own all of her individual CDs. I got an e-mail from Amazon.uk about this release and immediately went to the site and ordered it. It's a little cheaper if you order from the UK site, and mine arrived 5 days after I placed the order!
If you don't own any of June's CDs, or just have a couple, this set is a great introduction. It covers her entire career, from the Silly Sisters album with Maddy Prior right up to tracks recorded in 2004. If you're like me and already own her entire catalog, this set is still a must-have. It has many live & unreleased tracks and songs taken from various collections (many that I already have, but a bunch I'd never even heard of before). It's a great way to get all of the stray tracks together.
The booklet has a timeline of sorts, which includes exerpts from many interviews June has done over the years. There are also comments from June on every track in the collection.
The set contains 4 discs in individual jewel cases, all in a long box with the booklet."
Too Serious?
Mark D. Prouse | Riverdale (Bronx), NY | 10/18/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Having almost every one of June Tabor's albums on vinyl, CD or both, I hesitated ordering this boxed set, because the song list included very few of my all-time favorites. What tipped the balance in favor of buying this was the generous inclusion of many previously unreleased studio and live tracks, and several selections from currently out of print recordings. These turned out to be well worth the hefty price, so my recommendation is intended for die hard June Tabor fans like myself. Overall, however, this collection is somber and so, so serious, with very few uptempo tunes to break the monotony, and I doubt that this set will win her many new fans. I realize that these kinds of songs are Tabor's forte, and every one of them has much to offer in both lyrical content and melodic beauty. I just wish there were a few more rhythmic tracks to give this project more variety. Some of the best tracks from Tabor's record with the oyster band, FREEDOM AND RAIN, were not chosen (my favorites of the left-out numbers are "Dark Eyed Sailor" and "Night Comes In"), and there are several duets with Maddy Prior from the two Silly Sisters albums that would have helped to bring some light and air to these proceedings. Thankfully, there are some tracks from the above releases, plus a few Tabor/Prior collaborations that are heard here for the first time. ALWAYS is a MUST if you are a major fan."
5 Stars...
Antonio Cunha Silva | Stb, Portugal | 12/04/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"One complaint... Why this box full of treasures does NOT bring 'Sudden Waves'? - For me it's a mystery - since it is my favourite June's song! But yes it appears on Angel Tiger!
Her voice is so deep that can move you to tears and give the strenght that we need everyday - That's why June's a Lady.
Check out the box from Shirley Collins Within Sound!
And - of course - all the other CDs by June Tabor!"
A monumental retrospective.
Azoic | Portland, Oregon United States | 11/08/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"June Tabor,is in my mind,one of the great interpretors of song.Some will say that she places too much focus on dark and sombre subject matter.I say that life is serious and who better to recite these words than this woman,a former Oxford librarian,who can imbue a lyric with the gravitas that the topic requires of it.Not only does Tabor choose relevant material,but her timing,emphasis,arrangements are impeccable.To use a term from Brian Eno,Tabor displays "a keen sense of the appropriate".You'll find no overproduction here.This four cd set is what I've been waiting for for years.It chronologically spans JT's career,all the way from her earliest days as a student at Oxford,to her latest chamber folk projects with Mark Emerson and Huw Warren.There is a good deal of otherwise unreleased material here.This music is timeless,and it will endure the test of time with grace.My life is better for having discovered this singer."
Always Great
B. W. Thew | Australia | 08/20/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"June Tabor has been a favourite artist of mine for over thirty years and while I prefer her folkier material over the later more varied songs, she never lets you down. This box set features a great many rarities and alternates, a well produced book with much information new to me at least. It has been researched by David Suff which should be enough of a recommendation to most. This is a great collection, on a par with the Shirley Collins box set and deserves to be in any collection of good music."
Track Listings (17) - Disc #1