"The Tale of Ale" - The history, in song and story, of the English and their beer and ale!
The complete original double LP is now a superb CD -78 minutes long (and 98 mins in its cassette format) - and has been digitally remastered, and features legendary figures from the British Folk Revival of the 1970s, with the late Willy Rushton and other fine actors providing humorous asides, and with period accompaniment from leading early music group and folk bands - The Pump & Pluck, Oriana and 'Musica Inebriata'! It includes a full 8-page Booklet and research notes on the history of ale and beer, and is produced with the approval and support of Britain's "Campaign for Real Ale", the world's most successful consumer pressure group. |
This welcome Compact Disc re-release of the1977 classic double
LP "The Tale of Ale" at last brings this splendid collection of the songs and stories
of 'The Englishman - and Woman- and their beer' to the worldwide
audience it deserves! |
Bring us in Good Ale Andrew Boorde on Ale Come Drink to Me (MC) Jolly Good Ale and Old "He That Buys Land" The Merry Fellows Soldiers Three Tapster Drinker The Tunnyng of Eleanor Rummyng A Knotte of Good Fellows (MC) Andrew Boorde on Beer London's Ordinary Epitaph Of Honest Malt Liquor The Malt's Come Down Stubbes on Drunkenness Good Ale for my Money The Excise Ballad, The Porter Scene from 'Macbeth' Peas, Beans, Oats and the Barley The Pleasant Ballad of John Barleycorn (MC) Now Harvest is Over The British Toper Nottingham Ale Bickerdyke on Temperance |
O Ale ab Alendo John Barleycorn Ye Mar'ners All Epitaph / Poor Tom is Dead and Gone There's Comfort in a Drop of Gin (MC) The London Distillery (MC) Don't Go Out Tonight Dear Father The Drunkard's Looking Glass Ale Ale Glorious Ale I Likes a Drop of Good Beer The Carter's Health Hey John Barleycorn Here's a Health unto the Mistress Meux's Porter Vat A Pot of Porter Oh! I've been to France / Here's a health unto Our Master The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer October Brew John Appleby Epitaph Charley Mopps This is Our Mistress' Health Michael Blann's Drinking Song The British Toper. |
(MC) = Extra Tracks on Cassette version only!
(All samples in windows wav format)
These full length CDs and cassettes are offered at considerable discount over UK retail!
"The Tale of Ale" is also available from a select group of US & Canadian beer sources:
The Zymoscribe, Connecticut: <bookbase@ziplink.net>
Grass Roots Productions: <Hwood50@aol.com>
Andy's Front Hall: <fennig@aol.com>
Sidestreet Distribution: <sidestr@mail.msen.com>
Backporch Ontario: <bpm@bpm.on.ca>
In the UK, via your CAMRA Branch orders to CAMRA Head Office
or from Beer-Inn Print - Heptonstall: http://www.eagle.co.uk/Beerinn/
or direct from Free Reed Music
Ordering Details:
FRCD 23 - The Tale of Ale - 78 minute CD, or
FRMC 23 - The Tale of Ale - 98 min cassette
"The Tale of Ale" is every drinker's ideal gift!
CD is just £10.00, Cassette is £7.25 Order Form
Some Reviews:
'I doubt whether the history of the Englishperson's favoutite tipple has ever been presented so authoritatively or entertainingly'. - Folk Roots
'The long-standing liason between folk music and real ale is at last given formal recognition - it's excellent!' - Tony Millns, CAMRA.
The Tale of Ale is also featured and reviewed on Big Al's Beer
Page:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~altietz/beer/
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