Evensong was the second album released by the band Amazing Blondel

Amazing Blondel

Amazing Blondel are an English acoustic progressive folk band, consisting of Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s...

. It featured the style of music which they described as "pseudo-Elizabethan/Classical acoustic music sung with British accents".

By this time, the band were touring Britain extensively as part of a package of artists supporting major bands such as Free

Free (band)

Free were an English rock band, formed in London in 1968, best known for their 1970 signature song "All Right Now". They disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become a frontman of the band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums; lead guitarist Paul Kossoff died from a...

, and their contrasting style coupled with bawdy anecdotes between songs found favour with rock audiences.

The gatefold

Gatefold

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 album cover shows the band in the cloisters of Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years . The central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt...

 holding period instruments, while the interior lists credits and lyrics for the songs surrounding a photograph of the band in performance.

Side one

1. "Pavan" (3:20)
2. "St. Crispin's Day" (2:28)
3. "Spring Season" (3:38)
4. "Willowood" (3:22)
5. "Evensong" (3:10)
6. "Queen of Scots" (Baird) (1:40)

Side two

1. "Ploughman" (3:05)
2. "Old Moot Hall" (2:38)
3. "Lady Marion's Galliard" (3:44)
4. "Under the Greenwood Tree" (3:15)
5. "Anthem" (2:52)

Personnel

• John David Gladwin - lead vocals, lute
  Lute
  Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
  
  , theorboe, cittern
  Cittern
  The cittern or cither is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval Citole, or Cytole. It looks much like the modern-day flat-back mandolin and the modern Irish bouzouki and cittern...
  
  , double bass
• Terence Alan Wincott - crumhorn
  Crumhorn
  The crumhorn is a musical instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, there has been a revival of interest in Early Music, and crumhorns are being played again....
  
  , recorders, pipe-organ, vocals (and occasional lead vocals), tabor pipe, tabor
  Tabor
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  , flute, harmonium
  Harmonium
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  , lute, harpsichord
  Harpsichord
  A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
  
  
• Edward Baird - lute, cittern, vocals (and very occasional lead vocals)
• Chris Karan - percussion
• Adam Skeaping - viola da gamba, violone
  Violone
  The term violone can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family. The violone is sometimes a fretted instrument, and may have six, five, four, or even only three strings. The violone is also not always a contrabass instrument...