Winter | ||||
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Studio album by Steeleye Span | ||||
Released | 2004 | |||
Recorded | Warehouse Studios, Oxford | |||
Genre |
Electric folk Christmas music |
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Label | Park Records | |||
Producer | Steeleye Span | |||
Steeleye Span chronology | ||||
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Winter is the 19th studio album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. So far it is the second of three studio albums made by a line-up consisting of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Liam Genockey and Ken Nicol. This is their first Christmas album. Most of the songs on the album are traditional folk songs, but it also includes three new pieces expressing neo-pagan views on the Winter season. It also includes a negro spiritual, "Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel", the first time the band had drawn from that particular musical genre.