| 1. “Parlour Music” is a genre that has been much derided over the centuries. Its heyday was the Victorian era when many middle-class houses had pianos and many middle-class sons and daughters could sight-read piano scores to a high level, musical literacy being highly prized. Many parlour songs are cloying, nationalistic, pompous and irritating to modern ears, but nestling among the dross there are many shining gems to be found. The early folk song collectors despised all these songs as fakery, usurping the place of the naturally occurring folk songs of the rural working class. This album is not a collection of parlour songs in the technical sense of the term, but it does seek to awaken the sound of the old, well loved, slightly out of tune domestic piano and to reunite it with songs that might feel glad of the acquaintance |
| 2. vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle |
| 3. Rob Harbron vocals, concertina, harmonium, banjo |
| 4. Sally Hawkins fiddle, oboe, cor anglais |
| 5. M.G. Boulter vocals, pedal steel guitar, dobro, guitar |
| 6. Sam Sweeney vocals, drums, fiddle |
| 7. Ben Nicholls vocals, double bass, bass guitar |
| 8. Tracklist: |
| 9. 1-1. , The Remnant Kings - On One April Morning |
| 10. 1-2. , The Remnant Kings - Bonny Bunch of Roses |
| 11. 1-3. , The Remnant Kings - Clock O’ Clay |
| 12. 1-4. , The Remnant Kings - Merry Mountain Child |
| 13. 1-5. , The Remnant Kings - Mortal Cares |
| 14. 1-6. , The Remnant Kings - Oggie Man |
| 15. 1-7. , The Remnant Kings - Old Brown’s Daughter |
| 16. 1-8. , The Remnant Kings - Prentice Boy |
| 17. 1-9. , The Remnant Kings - Danny Deever |
| 18. 1-10. , The Remnant Kings - Rose of Allendale |
| 19. 1-11. , The Remnant Kings - London Waterman |
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