This 17th studio album from Kate seamlessly blends old and new across 12-tracks of traditional folk, covers and self-penned songs.The album is a deeply personal collection which pays homage to her family and musical heritage, and home life in Yorkshire. With Philosophers, Poets & Kings, Kate raises a toast to her parents. She recalls an upbringing filled with music; whether recording songs performed during wine-fuelled family singalongs or her formative years spent watching festival performances by famed musicians.
1 Jenny
2 Bogey's Bonnie Belle
3 Philosophers, Poets and Kings
4 Until Morning
5 Crazy Man Michael
6 Don't Go Away
7 The Squire and the Parson
8 The Wanderer
9 Farmer's Toast
10 As the Lights Go Out
11 Jenny (Ordinary Remix) bonus track CD only
12 Halt the Wagons
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July 4th 2018, saw the 180th anniversary of the Huskar Pit disaster, where 26 children working in the mine lost their lives when a freak storm flooded the steam engine, called The Black Horse, which pulled the cage and coal up and down the mine shaft.
The children panicked, and ran to a different part of the mine, which then flooded when the stream burst its banks, they were trapped. 15 boys, 11 girls aged 7-17 years old, were drowned. They were found with arms around each other for comfort. The children were brought back to the village of Silkstone on carts.
The tragedy came to the attention of Queen Victoria and led to a Royal Commission and a law prohibiting women and children under 10 working underground.
I was asked by Sylvia Le Breton, who I’ve known since childhood, to write a song to commemorate the disaster, it was an honour.
Here we are joined by 26 members of Barnsley Youth Choir, 15 boys and 11 girls, their ages 7-17. Together we went underground at The National Coal Mining Museum Of England to film and record the children singing on the song. They were brilliant.
I wanted people to see and hear 26 children, to understand what a huge effect the terrible tragedy had on the small village of Silkstone (just up the road from me).
Most of all I wanted to give a voice to those children and their mothers. One in particular, Joey Birkinshaw was 7 and just started in the pit
lyrics
Stop now, halt the wagons,
It’s too much for me to bear,
To see my baby sleeping,
In the cart laying there,
Oh take me Lord and keep me,
Please don’t leave me here,
For I cannot keep breathing,
He was all I held dear.
Chorus
Hush now, don’t cry
As you hear my lullaby
Hush now don’t cry
As you hear my lullaby.
From the Black Horse there was silence,
As the storm raged up above,
So desperate was the tempest,
To steal the one I love,
Oh nature sick with vengeance,
As we carve up her tongue,
Tiny arms around each other,
Her work here done
.
Chorus
Children are the future,
Children are a gift,
But these are children of the darkness,
With a twelve-hour shift,
So take him Lord, be gentle,
With his tired, weary bones,
Now I’m a mother of the darkness,
For he’ll never come home.
We do not mine for riches,
We do no mine from love,
But merely to keep the food
on our tables above,
So I’ll dry up my tears now,
Keep his soul in my heart....
And call up the wagons,
So the next shift can start.
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Thanks for the beautiful music Karine and Dave. it's been a while since I've felt so emotional listening to a new album. Every lyric is so beautifully supported by the piano parts. Laura-Beth Salter