Track listing

  1. John Blunt
  2. Can’t Be Sure
  3. Doffing Mistress
  4. The Spyglass & The Herringbone
  5. Hail! Hail! The First of May
  6. Take This Letter To My Mother
  7. The Robbers’ Retreat
  8. The Yellow Bittern
  9. The Halsway Carol
  10. A Cornish Young Man
  11. The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife
  12. The Banks of the Bann
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The Spyglass & The Herringbone

In 2015 Jackie released her sixth studio album, The Spyglass & The Herringbone, on ECC Records, a record exploring lesser known but life-affirming songs from the English tradition, drawing on material dug from the archives, as well as some carefully selected original works including the title track by band member Chris Sarjeant. Production credits include Afro Celt Sound System/The Imagined Village’s Simon Emmerson, multi-BBC Folk Award nominee Ben Walker and Richard Evans, who also produced Jackie’s previous albums Lullabies and Saturnine. The album features performances by names from folk and mainstream music including Jim Moray, Andy Gangadeen, John Parker and Jack Rutter.

Press

**** The Guardian
 
‘One of English folk’s class acts. Oates’s vocals, bright as a May morn, carry the tales and poems with easy grace.’ The Guardian
 

‘Central is Jackie’s clear, pure and beguiling voice…Another maturely sophisticated offering further enhancing her renown as a leading exponent of contemporary English folk’. Living Tradition