English Rebel Songs

Allmusic called the album "eloquent", with "utterly relevant" songs, emphasizing that the singing in the 1988 version "was far better than anyone expected", and commending the improved technical quality of the 2003 recording, while The Independent praised the album as having "rousing" songs, with "excellent" vocal performances, but expressed concern that there were no songs from later than 1984. == Track listing ==

According to the 1988 LP notes: "The words are sung, with a couple of exceptions, exactly how we found them written. To start chopping and changing them all to fit in with modern language and ideas would have destroyed the reason why we wanted to do them like this (Which isn't to say that folk music isn't to be changed, edited and modernised.) Consequently the language and meaning seem a bit peculiar at times." From the 2003 re-release: "Now, fifteen years later, we felt we'd learned enough about our voices to try again, updating and rearranging the songs against a backdrop of US/British warmongering. The songs were discovered in songbooks and in folk clubs and on cassette tapes, chopped and changed and bludgeoned into shape with utmost respect for the original tunes." == Personnel ==

1988 recording • Mavis Dillon • Harry Hamer • Cobie Laan • Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon • Danbert Nobacon • Lou Watts • Boff Whalley Liner notes state that "Alice Nutter was otherwise engaged" and "[Dunstan Bruce] was reading football fanzines". 2003 re-recording • Jude Abbott • Neil Ferguson • Harry Hamer • Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon • Danbert Nobacon • Lou Watts • Boff Whalley == References ==