Line-up

• Maddy Prior - vocals
• June Tabor
  June Tabor
  June Tabor is an English folk singer.- Early years :June Tabor was inspired to sing by hearing Anne Briggs' EP Hazards of Love in 1965. "I went and locked myself in the bathroom for a fortnight and drove my mother mad. I learned the songs on that EP note for note, twiddle for twiddle. That's how I...
  
   - vocals
• Rose Kemp
  Rose Kemp
  Rose Kemp is an English singer and guitarist who performs in a variety of genres. She is the daughter of Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp of the folk-rock band Steeleye Span.- Singing career :...
  
   - vocals
• Steve Banks - percussion
• Troy Donockley
  Troy Donockley
  Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of uillean pipes.- Early life and career :...
  
   - guitar, uilleann pipes, low and tin whistle, cittern, vocals
• Nick Holland - keyboards, vocals
• Rick Kemp
  Rick Kemp
  Rick Kemp is an English bass player, songwriter, vocalist and record producer, best known for his work with the pioneering electric folk band, Steeleye Span.-Projects:...
  
   - bass, vocals
• Peter Knight - violin.

The running time is 67 minutes. 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" (that includes an extra verse not in the previous recording), "My Husband's Got No Courage In Him" and "Doffin 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 acapella by the entire ensemble.

Track listing

1. The Blacksmith
   Blacksmith (song)
   "Blacksmith" is a traditional English folk song, also known as "A Blacksmith Courted Me". The song was noted down by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909 from a Mrs Powell. On that occasion it was sung to the tune "Monk's Gate", better known as the tune of "To be a pilgrim", the hymn by John Bunyan....
   
    (Trad)
2. Blood and Gold (song/trad) / Mohacs (tune/Dan Ar Bras)
3. Boar's Head
   Boar's Head Carol
   The Boar's Head Carol is a macaronic 15th century English Christmas carol that describes the ancient tradition of sacrificing a boar and presenting its head at a Yuletide feast...
   
    (Trad)
4. A Virgin Most Pure (Unknown)
5. All In The Morning (Trad)
6. Sing, Sing All Earth (Trad - Copper Family))
7. Doffing Mistress (Trad)
8. Betsy Bell and Mary Gray
   Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
   Betsy Bell and Mary Gray are "twa bonnie lassies", the subject of one of the Child Ballads.According to the ballad, Betsy and Mary were daughters of two Perthshire gentlemen, who in 1666 built themselves a bower to avoid catching a devastating plague...
   
    (Trad)
9. Hind Horn
   Hind Horn
   "Hind Horn" is traditional folk ballad.-Synopsis:Hind Horn and the king's daughter Jean fall in love. He gives her a silver wand, and she gives him a diamond ring and tells him when the stones grow pale, he has lost her love. One day, on his travels, he sees it growing pale and sets out for her...
   
    (Trad)
10. Singing The Travels (Trad)
11. Long Shadows (Maddy Prior)
12. The King (Trad)
13. Rose (Maddy Prior)
14. Mother and Child (Maddy Prior)
15. Alex (Maddy Prior)
16. My Husband's Got No Courage In Him (Trad)
17. Blackleg Miner
    Blackleg Miner
    Blackleg Miner is a 19th-century English folk song, originally from Northumberland ....
    
     (Trad)
18. Padstow May Song
    'Obby 'Oss festival
    Padstow, in Cornwall, UK is internationally famous for its traditional Obby 'Oss day . Held annually on May Day , which in Cornwall, largely dates back to the Celtic Beltane, the day celebrates the coming of Summer....
    
    (Trad)