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01. Home Service - Alright Jack
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02. Home Service - Rose Of Allendale
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03. Home Service - Radstock Jig
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04. Home Service - Sorrow / Babylon
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05. Home Service - Duke Of Marlborough Fanfare
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06. Home Service - A Lincolnshire Posy
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07. Home Service - Look Up Look Up
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08. Home Service - Scarecrow
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ARTIST
HOME SERVICE
TITLE
Alright Jack
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
FLEDG''LING
CATALOG #
FLED 3015CD
FLED 3015CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/18/2005
Released by Fledg'ling in 1998. The
Home Service
that went into Raezor Studios in Wandsworth in December 1985 to make their third LP was a band with a pedigree second to none in its field of English music. That third LP was
Alright Jack
and it found the band on a creative streak. At the time of its release, critics hailed it as one of the seminal albums in its field, one to rival the best albums that
Fairport Convention
,
Steeleye Span
,
The Albion Band
or
Richard Thompson
had produced. The passage of time has borne out how perceptive those assessments were, for like those other classic albums, it proved more than a "genre album." In a quintessentially British tradition,
Alright Jack
proved a classic. They had decided that the album's centerpiece would be a setting of folk songs by
Percy Grainger
for large wind ensemble. Grainger, a highly complex character with enough quirks and eccentricities to fill the pages of a sizeable psychological study, had been regarded as one of the finest pianists of his day and the preserved evidence in the form of piano-rolls and recordings demonstrates a pianistic virtuosity on an Olympian scale. What is more, he had been a true visionary in the field of folk song collecting, for, in an era when many collectors allowed their preconceptions about the lower classes, good taste and musical orthodoxy to color and distort their results, Grainger's attitudes were positively revolutionary. For example, other collectors, it would seem, often bowlderized language which might offend or doctored or rejected as aberrations, modes or time signatures which failed to comply with scholarly expectations or theories.
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