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Thread #101751   Message #2056330
Posted By: GUEST,Keith
19-May-07 - 08:05 AM
Thread Name: 'Anglicana' - is this a new word?
Subject: RE: 'Anglicana' - is this a new word?
I first came across "Anglicana" in the context of three different "recorded as live" CDs with that name Show of Hands put together for 3 different tours in Australia, Canada and Germany around 1999.

Various of those (especially the Australian version) appeared on sale in the UK, but in the UK the official release of a compilation of all of those recording was on the Track Records CD "Show of Hands" that came out in 2000. It is the Show of Hands "best of" you can't buy from their own website or merch desk.

I found it a bit strange that Eliza recycled someone else in the folk world's CD title quite so quickly. SOH allowed a rather longer interval of about 30 years to elapse before nicking Roxy Music's Country Life CD title. There again, since SOH had never released a CD here with that title I guess she felt it too good to let go. For all I know she may not have known about the SOH CD from 3 years previously. It is actually quite a good word for the broad umbrella that is English folk and acoustic and for what both SOH and Eliza do. After all, Angels & Cigarettes isn't that different than Mr Knightley's latest solo opus Cruel River.