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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Little Dish Records no. LiDiCD 004

    Strictly limited edition of 1000 copies of 12-track CD. Songs by Leon Rosselson performed by Nancy Kerr, includes sleeve notes in accompanying digipak and booklet with photography by James Fagan and illustration/design by Lizzy Doe.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Poor Shall Wear the Crown: Songs by Leon Rosselson via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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"And the rich shall wear the saddle and the poor shall wear the crown
When Harry rises up and turns the world upside down."

In his 1993 songbook Turning Silence into Song, Leon points out that “the narrator’s revelatory walk… is a device common in traditional song and in poetry (Blake’s London, for example).” After hearing this song for many years, finally singing it is itself a revelatory walk.

Harry, meanwhile - our “down-to-earth saviour” - seems to me to stroll to the accompaniment of pastoral strings, as ephemeral as the whiff of sea-breeze his memory brings with it to the city streets.

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Nancy Kerr Sheffield, UK

Folk Singer of the Year BBC Folk Awards 2015

"Outstanding chamber folk" (The Guardian) "Folk's Poet Laureate" (FRUK) "One of the UK’s foremost composers of modern folk and social commentary songs” (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Photo credits: James Fagan, Elly Lucas
Album design: Lizzy Doe
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