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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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I learned this from the same album as the previous track, where its gorgeous tune is carried in epic style by Roy Bailey’s vocals and Fiz Shapur’s swirling piano – Leon himself is a great pianist too. I am not.

Apparently, Leon wrote the melody before the lyrics (a rare practice for him), and he observes that “it sounds to me like nothing else I’ve ever written”. Yet to me this song has attained an archetypal “Leon-ness” via its musical and emotional nuances – modal yet modulating, wistful yet strong.

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from The Poor Shall Wear the Crown: Songs by Leon Rosselson, released December 26, 2021
Nancy Kerr: vocals and piano

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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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