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Release Date: Friday 27 May 2016
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'THIS HOUSE WILL STAND: The Best of Oysterband 1998 - 2015' is a 2-CD, 29 track collection comprising 15 tracks chosen by the band from their last 6 studio albums (including 'Ragged Kingdom', their multi-award-winning reunion collaboration with June Tabor) and 14 unreleased tracks, rare B-sides, live cuts, demos and alternative versions of other Oysterband songs.
Oysterband has been one of the most consistently creative folk and rock bands of the past 38 years. Since their origins in 1977-1978 as the Oyster Ceilidh Band and their subsequent growth and constant development over the decades (sometimes wearing a more rock music mantle, sometimes a more folk/trad one), their musical vision has always burned bright. Following the critical and commercial success of 'Ragged Kingdom' (2011) and 'Diamonds On The Water' (2014), the band has been working on other projects including John Jones 'Never Stop Moving', story-telling tours by founder members Jones, Ian Telfer (fiddle) and Alan Prosser (guitar) as Oysters3, and the rebirth of their annual Big Session Festival in Buxton. This core membership of the band has been instrumental in the continuity of the Oysterband sound throughout these permutations and changes.
Disc 1
1. THE SOUL'S ELECTRIC
2. WHERE THE WORLD DIVIDES
3. SPIRIT OF DUST
4. UNCOMMERCIAL SONG
5. BLACKWATERSIDE
6. STREET OF DREAMS
7. WALKING DOWN THE ROAD WITH YOU
8. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Curtis / Hook / Morris / Sumner
9. DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN (single edit)
10. HERE COMES THE FLOOD
11. A CLOWN'S HEART
12. RISE ABOVE
13. A RIVER RUNS
14. ON THE EDGE
15. BRIGHT MORNING STAR
Disc 2
1. I BUILT THIS HOUSE
2. WAYS OF HOLDING ON (single edit)
3. JAIL SONG TWO (live)
4. NEVER LEFT (Alt. Version)
5. HANGMAN CRY
6. AND AS FOR YOU (Alt. Version)
7. fiddle THE SAILOR'S BONNET Trad. arr. Telfer
8. MISSISSIPPI SUMMER (Alt. Version) Si Kahn
9. SCATTERGUN
10. BOLD RILEY (Alt. Version)
11. I ONCE LOVED A LASS
12. SHE'S MOVED ON (Demo)
13. LONG DARK STREET (Alt. Version)
14. THE CORNISH FAREWELL SHANTY (Demo)