| 词条 | Roots: The Best of Show of Hands |
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| name = Roots | type = greatest hits | artist = Show of Hands | cover = | alt = | released = 19 November 2007 | recorded = 1990–2007 | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist|
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}} | prev_title = Witness | prev_year = 2006 | next_title = Live at Exeter Phoenix | next_year = 2008 }} Roots, subtitled The Best of Show of Hands is a "best-of"/"greatest hits" album by British folk duo Show of Hands released in 2007,[1][2] the year of their 20th anniversary as an official collaboration (prior to 1987 they had collaborated several times without the name Show of Hands). The album has two discs designed to be the best of the band's career. Short Stories (disc one) features some of the band's most popular songs whilst Longdogs (disc two) aimed to feature one track from each of their albums voted for in a poll on the duo's forum Longdogs. The album received positive reviews such as in Living Tradition,[3] and Spiral Earth.[4] fRoots reported that the album charted at number 22 in the "Amazon.co.uk Folk/Roots/World 30" in November 2015, described by the magazine as the "non-budget price CD sales from Amazon.co.uk" for folk, roots and world albums from that month.[5]BackgroundA previous best-of album, entitled Show of Hands, was released in 2000 by Track Records. This album was also a double album featuring recordings of 25 of their tracks recorded during a soundtrack in 1999, some previously released on Anglicana. Comparing Roots and Show of Hands, they feature almost entirely different songs than each other, and all different versions of those the same. Some of the song were re-recorded for this album and a lot of the tracks were recorded live (see Inclusion section.) Despite being a best of album, some of the songs also segued into the next, ala The Best of Pink Floyd. "Roots" is also represented in its mix form as seen its music video form. Of the duo's twelve studio albums at the time, all but their third Out for the Count were represented in some form. Short Stories had its tracks picked by the duo whilst disc two Longdogs had its songs picked by the duo's forum Longdogs,[6] achieved by each of their albums (including live albums) where each of their studio and live albums bar Cold Cuts had a poll where the winner from each poll made it onto Longdogs. Inclusion
Track listing{{tracklist| headline = Short Stories | extra_column = Original album | total_length = | extra1 = 2007 remix (originally on Witness, 2006) | title1 = Roots | length1 = 4:09 | extra2 = 2007 re-recording (originally on Cold Frontier, 2001) | title2 = Are We Alright | length2 = 3:04 | extra3 = 2007 re-recording (originally on Show of Hands, 1987) | title3 = Exile | length3 = 3:47 | extra4 = Country Life, 2003 | title4 = Country Life | length4 = 3:57 | extra5 = Cold Frontier, 2001 | title5 = Widecombe Fair | length5 = 3:26 | extra6 = Witness, 2006 | title6 = The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe | length6 = 5:32 | extra7 = 2007 re-recording (originally from Alianza, 1992) | title7 = Santiago | length7 = 6:13 | extra8 = Beat about the Bush, 1994 | title8 = Armadas | length8 = 4:30 | extra9 = Beat about the Bush, 1994 | title9 = The Blue Cockade | length9 = 6:02 | extra10 = 2007 re-recording (originally from Cold Cuts, 2002) | title10 = Crow on the Cradle | length10 = 4:28 | extra11 = Lie of the Land, 1995 | title11 = The Preacher | length11 = 4:25 | extra12 = Live version (originally from Dark Fields, 1997) | title12 = Cousin Jack | length12 = 6:50 | extra13 = Cold Frontier, 2001 | title13 = Cold Frontier | length13 = 4:15 | extra14 = Country Life, 2003 | title14 = Hard Shoulder | length14 = 5:17 | extra15 = Lie of the Land, 1995 | title15 = Captains | length15 = 4:03 | extra16 = The Big Gig (live), 2001 (originally from Beat about the Bush, 1994) | title16 = The Galway Farmer | length16 = 5:42 }}{{tracklist | headline = Longdogs | extra_column = Original album | total_length = | extra1 = Live at the Royal Albert Hall (live), 1996 (originally from Columbus EP/single, 1993) | title1 = Columbus (Didn't Find America) | length1 = 5:13 | extra2 = Cold Frontier, 2001 | title2 = You're Mine | length2 = 4:02 | extra3 = Live (live), 1994 | title3 = The Blind Fiddler | length3 = 3:00 | extra4 = As You Were (live), 2005 | title4 = The Setting / Mary from Dungloe | length4 = 3:54 | extra5 = Dark Fields, 1997 | title5 = The Bristol Slaver | length5 = 3:52 | extra6 = The Path, 2003 | title6 = Port Isaac | length6 = 4:23 | extra7 = Folk Music, 1998 | title7 = The Train / Blackwaterside | length7 = 6:51 | extra8 = As You Were (live), 2005 | title8 = Be Lucky | length8 = 5:10 | extra9 = Dark Fields, 1997 | title9 = Longdog | length9 = 2:44 | extra10 = Lie of the Land, 1995 | title10 = The Keeper | length10 = 5:18 | extra11 = Covers, 2000 | title11 = The Downeaster 'Alexa' | length11 = 3:10 | extra12 = Beat about the Bush, 1994 | title12 = The Oak | length12 = 3:03 | extra13 = Witness, 2006 | title13 = Innocents' Song / Gwithian | length13 = 4:35 | extra14 = Tall Ships, 1990 (Shorter version present on Show of Hands, 1987) | title14 = Tall Ships | length14 = 21:56 }} References1. ^BBC - Devon - People - The Best of Show of Hands {{Show of Hands}}2. ^Roots: The Best of Show of Hands - Show of Hands | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic 3. ^Living Tradition CD review of SHOW OF HANDS - Roots, The Best of… Show of Hands 4. ^http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/reviews/the-best-of-show-of-hands.asp 5. ^fRoots Charts and Lists 6. ^Roots – The Best of SOH | Show of Hands 2 : 2007 greatest hits albums|Show of Hands albums |
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