Hang Up Sorrow and Care
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Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band
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Hang Up Sorrow and Care is an album by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.{{cite journal |last1=Poet |first1=J. |title=Folk — Hang Up Sorrow and Care by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band |journal=Utne Reader |date=Jul 1996 |issue=76 |page=117}}{{cite news |last1=Donohue |first1=Simon |title=Maddy madness this Christmas |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=December 6, 1997 |department=News}} Released in 1995, it is a loose concept album, with renditions of songs that were written hundreds of years ago.{{cite news |title=ARTS: TAKE NOTE |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=25 Nov 1995 |page=9}}
Critical reception
{{album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hang-up-sorrow-care-mw0000183710|title=Hang Up Sorrow & Care - Maddy Prior | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
|rev2 = The Indianapolis Star
|rev2score = {{rating|3|4}}{{cite news |last1=Penner |first1=Diana |title=Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band 'Hang Up Sorrow & Care |work=The Indianapolis Star |date=5 May 1996 |page=I8}}
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Stereo Review stated: "Ballads and dances to the heart and the bottle are expertly played in a trad setting that features such instruments as lute, recorder, hoboy, curtal, kazoo, and 'ye great dooble bass'."{{cite journal |last1=Richardson |first1=Ken |title=Hang Up Sorrow and Care |journal=Stereo Review |date=Jul 1996 |volume=61 |issue=7 |page=80}} The St. Louis Post-Dispatch deemed Hang Up Sorrow and Care "the most inspired drinking album of the digital era."{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Paul A. |title=BOTTOMS UP! |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=22 Nov 1996 |page=4E}}
AllMusic wrote that "Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band have made a real party album, of witty, upbeat traditional songs from the British Isles."
Track listing
- Prodigal's Resolution (Anon 18th century)
- 5 Playford Tunes (from Playford's "English Dancing Master")
- The World is Turned Upside Down (Anon 17th century)
- Jovial Beggar (Anon 17th century)
- Leathern Bottle (Anon 17th century)
- Iantha (Anon English 18th century)
- An Thou were my ain Thing (Anon Scottish 18th century)
- Oh that I had but a Fine Man (Pelham Humphry)
- Now O Now I needs must part (John Dowland)
- Man is for the Woman made (Henry Purcell)
- A Northern Catche/The Little Barleycorne (John Hilton/Trad)
- Granny's Delight/My Lady Foster's Delight (Anon 18th century)
- A Round of Three Country Dances in One (Thomas Ravenscroft)
- Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
- In The Days of my Youth (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
- Never weatherbeaten sail (Thomas Campion)
- Old Simon the King (Anon)
Personnel
- Maddy Prior - vocals
- William Badley - baroque guitar, lute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Davis - Double Bass
- Giles Lewin - violin, recorders, hoboy, mandolin, vocals
- Andrew Watts - Flemish bagpipes, shalman, curtals, recorders, melodica, kazoo, vocals
- Rafaello Mizraki - drums, percussion, cello, Hammond organ, vocals
- Arrangements by Andrew Watts