Ashore (album)
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Released21 February 2011
RecordedApril 2010, Red Kite Studio, Llanwrada, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Length69:10
| Ashore | ||||
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| Studio album by June Tabor | ||||
| Released | 21 February 2011 | |||
| Recorded | April 2010, Red Kite Studio, Llanwrada, Carmarthenshire, Wales | |||
| Genre | English Folk | |||
| Length | 69:10 | |||
| Label | Topic Records | |||
| June Tabor chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Daily Telegraph | [2] |
| The Guardian | [3] |
| The Independent on Sunday | [4] |
| Mojo | [5] |
| Q | [6] |
| Uncut | [7] |
Ashore is a folk album by June Tabor released in 2011 on Topic Records, catalogue number TSCD 577.
It is a collection of songs concerning humankind's relationship with the sea. Writing for The Guardian, Robin Denselow described it as a set of "quietly powerful and chilling songs with sensitive, restrained backing".[3]
- Finisterre (Ian Telfer)
- The Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh (Trad. arr. Tabor)
- The Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney)
- Le Vingt-Cinquième du Mois d'Octobre (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson)
- Shipbuilding (Declan MacManus / Clive Langer)
- Jamaica (arr. Emerson, Cutting, Harries)
- The Great Selkie Of Sule Skerry (Trad., Child 113, arr. Tabor, Warren)
- Winter Comes In (words: Jack Renwick, music: Ronald Jamieson) / Vidlin Voe (Frank Jamieson)
- The Oggie Man (Cyril Tawney)
- I'll go and enlist for a soldier (Trad. arr. Cutting, Harries)
- The Brean Lament (Trad. arr. Tabor, Warren)
- Le Petit Navire (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson)
- Across The Wide Ocean (words Les Barker, tune trad.)
