Winter (Steeleye Span album)


Winter is the 19th studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. It is the second album 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.

Personnel

  1. "The First Nowell"
  2. "Down in Yon Forest"
  3. "Unconquered Sun"
  4. "Chanticleer"
  5. "Bright Morning Star"
  6. "Winter"
  7. "See, Amid the Winter's Snow"
  8. "Mistletoe Bough"
  9. "Sing We the Virgin Mary"
  10. "Today in Bethlehem"
  11. "Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel"
  12. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
  13. "Good King Wenceslas"
  14. "In the Bleak Midwinter"