Steeleye Span Ten Man Top or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again

1971 studio album by Steeleye Bridge

Ten Homo Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Once more
Studio album by Steeleye Bridge
Released	Dec 1971
Recorded	September 1971
Studio	Audio Techniques, London
Genre	British folk rock
Length	37:33
Label	Pegasus, Chrysalis
Producer	Sandy Roberton
Steeleye Span chronology
Delight to Encounter the King (1971) Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1971) Beneath the Salt (1972)

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Ten Man Mop or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Once again is the third album past Steeleye Span, recorded in September 1971. It was issued on the short-lived Pegasus label, and and so the Mooncrest label, also in 1971 (Crest 9). It was non initially issued in the Usa until Chrysalis acquired the group'due south first 3 albums in 1975, when it reissued all iii in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and US. Tracks like "Iv Nights Drunk", "Marrowbones", and "Wee Weaver" are substantially pure folk. It was the last album to feature founding member Ashley Hutchings; he left the band in Nov 1971, only after its completion, partly because he felt that the album had moved too far toward Irish music and away from English music. The band was also considering touring America, and Hutchings was reluctant to brand the trip.

The album begins with an adaptation of the Christmas carol "Gower Wassail". "When I was on Horseback" is i of the few folk songs to have an alternative being as a blues song, sometimes known equally "Six White Horses". It is also an Irish variant of a tune that inspired "Streets of Laredo" and "St. James Hospital Blues". The last vocal, "Skewball", employs an effective counterpoint betwixt a banjo and an electrical guitar.

The album was notable for having a textured "gatefold" sleeve and inner pages on its original release. This was paid for by the band but toll more to impress than the album generated in profits, meaning the band lost money on each album sold. It appeared as such on the Pegasus and Mooncrest labels. None of the re-releases have included the original number of pages of liner notes.

The album's curious title and subtitle require some explanation. A 'mop' or 'mop fair' is a late medieval term for a job fair, where labourers come looking for piece of work. (The song "Copshawholme Fair", from the band's first album Hark! The Hamlet Expect, is almost such a fair.) The conceit was that the band was out of work and job-hunting. A 'ten man mop' would be a very poor show, since there would be few potential employees to choose from. The even more curious subtitle is a reference to Reservoir Butler, who had originally performed one of the songs covered on the anthology. The band was so struck by his unusual name that they decided it needed to be saved from obscurity.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The photo on the sleeve was taken past John Benjamin Stone in about 1900. Entitled "'Sippers' and 'Topers'", it is of 2 villagers at the Bidford Mop, an almanac fair held at Michaelmas in the village of Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. The village has a centuries-old reputation for heavy drinking.

Bonus tracks [edit]

When Castle Music re-released Ten Man Mop... it added a substantial number of bonus tracks. On the kickoff disc, these included "Full general Taylor" and three versions of the Buddy Holly song "Rave On!". A second disc was included that independent a recording from Radio One in Concert with John Peel, dated 26/9/71 (following British dating conventions). The quality of the recording was quite variable, but the bonus tracks include a number of pieces not released on any album.

Personnel [edit]

Steeleye Span

• Maddy Prior - vocals, spoons, tabor
• Tim Hart - vocals, dulcimer, guitars, organ, 5-string banjo, mandolin
• Peter Knight - fiddle, tenor banjo, mandolin, vocals, timpani
• Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
• Martin Carthy - vocals, guitar, organ
• Sandy Roberton - producer

Track listing [edit]

Original album released past Pegasus Records PEG 9 in 1971. Re-issued by Mooncrest Records CREST nine in 1974, CREST 009 (vinyl) in 1991 and CRESTCD 009 (CD) in 1991:

1. "Gower Wassail"
2. "Jigs: Paddy Clancey'due south Jig / Willie Clancy's Fancy" (instrumentals)
3. "Four Nights Drunkard"
4. "When I Was On Horseback"
5. "Marrowbones"
6. "Captain Coulston"
7. "Reels: Dowd's Favourite / £x Float / The Forenoon Dew" (instrumentals)
8. "Wee Weaver"
9. "Skewball"

Additional tracks on the Castle Music re-consequence CMQDD 1252 in 2006:

ten. "General Taylor" (studio outtake)

eleven. "Rave On" ('scratched' effect, original unmarried version)

12. "Rave On" (cleaned-up 'two poesy' version)

13. "Rave On" (cleaned-up 'three verse' version)

Additional tracks on the Castle Music re-issue CMQDD 1252 bonus CD in 2006:

BBC "Peel's Dominicus Concert" 15 September 1971

01. "False Knight on the Road"

02. "The Lark in the Morning"

03. "Rave On"

04. "Reels: £10 Bladder / The Musical Priest"

05. "Captain Coulston"

06. "Martin Carthy: Handsome Polly-O"

07. "Martin Carthy: Bring 'Em Down / Tim Hart: Haul on the Bowline"

08. "Four Nights Drunk"

09. "When I Was on Horseback"

10. "Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: I Live Non Where I Love"

11. "Peter Knight: The Wind That Shakes the Barley / Pigeon on the Gate / Jenny'south Chickens"

12. "Female Drummer"

13. "General Taylor"

14. "College Grove / Silver Spear / Ballymurphy Rake / Maid Backside the Bar"

References [edit]

1. ^ Eder, Bruce. Ten Human Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again at AllMusic

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