Ashore is a folk album by June Tabor released in 2011 on Topic Records, catalogue number TSCD 577.
It is a collection of songs concerning humankind's relationship with the sea. Writing for The Guardian, Robin Denselow described it as a set of "quietly powerful and chilling songs with sensitive, restrained backing".
Track listing Finisterre (Ian Telfer) The Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh (Trad. arr. Tabor) The Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) Le Vingt-Cinquième du Mois d'Octobre (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson) Shipbuilding (Declan MacManus / Clive Langer) Jamaica (arr. Emerson, Cutting, Harries) The Great Selkie Of Sule Skerry (Trad., Child 113, arr. Tabor, Warren) Winter Comes In (words: Jack Renwick, music: Ronald Jamieson) / Vidlin Voe (Frank Jamieson) The Oggie Man (Cyril Tawney) I'll go and enlist for a soldier (Trad. arr. Cutting, Harries) The Brean Lament (Trad. arr. Tabor, Warren) Le Petit Navire (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson) Across The Wide Ocean (words Les Barker, tune trad.)
Personnel June Tabor - vocals Andy Cutting - diatonic accordion Mark Emerson - viola & violin Tim Harries - double bass Huw Warren - piano
References
External links Page at record label BBC Review by Colin Irwin Interview with June Tabor by Peter Paphides