As You Were is a 2005 live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands

Show of Hands

Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots and folk duo comprising singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. In recent years they have been accompanied on tour and in the studio by jazz double-bassist Miranda Sykes.-Origins:...

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The band recorded, with helm at Mick Dolan, the entire 2004 winter tour onto minidisk. This meant ploughing through each show the following day to identify the best performances and then collating and working through the "A list again" to find the best tracks. This album is the first to credit Miranda Sykes.

Track listing

On the back cover, the songs are written from 1 to 22.

All songs written by Steve Knightley

Steve Knightley

Steve Knightley is a singer-songwriter, musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Career:...

, except where noted.

CD1

1. "Longdog" – 3:25
2. "You're Mine" – 4:38
3. "Willin'" (Lowell George
   Lowell George
   Lowell Thomas George was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, who was the main guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat.- Early years :...
   
   ) – 4:06
4. "Mary From Dungloe" (Trad) / "The Setting" (Ralph McTell
   Ralph McTell
   Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....
   
   ) – 4:02
5. "The Oak" – 4:18
6. "The Blue Cockade" (Trad) – 6:05
7. "Crazy Boy" – 5:43
8. "Crow On The Cradle" (Sydney Carter
   Sydney Carter
   Sydney Bertram Carter was an English poet, songwriter, folk musician, born in Camden Town, London. He is best known for the song "Lord of the Dance" , set to the tune of the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts", and the song "The Crow on the Cradle", adapted from an old folk song...
   
   ) – 4:37
9. "I Promise You" – 4:39
10. "Maybe" – 4:11
11. "Be Lucky" – 5:26

CD2

1. "The Blind Fiddler" (Trad) / "Galway Farmer" – 8:27
2. "Captains" – 4:33
3. "Corrina, Corrina" (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) – 3:38
4. "Smile She Said" – 4:39
5. "Crooked Man" – 4:05
6. "Are We Alright" – 3:31
7. "Cousin Jack" – 6:09
8. "The Train" / "Santiago" / "The Soldier's Joy" (Trad) – 11:46
9. "Widecombe Fair" – 4:19
10. "Country Life" – 8:25
11. "Don't Be A Stranger" – 16:18^*

^* Track 11 is made up of 5:03 of "Don't Be A Stranger", 3:33 of silence and then 7:42 of live between-song banter.

Hidden track

The mentioned "between song banter" hidden track was made up of...

1. Notes about "beach towns"
2. Notes aobut "the eclipse"
3. "The Galway Farmer" (Reprise)
4. "Paranoid
   Paranoid (song)
   "Paranoid" is a song by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid . It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song "The Wizard". It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100...
   
   "
5. "Be Lucky" (Reprise)/Notes about "losing things"

Credits

• Steve Knightley
  Steve Knightley
  Steve Knightley is a singer-songwriter, musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Career:...
  
   - vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , mandocello
  Mandocello
  The mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa . It is to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.-Construction:Mandocello construction is similar to the...
  
  , cuatro
  Cuatro (instrument)
  The cuatro is any of several Latin American instruments of the guitar or lute family. The cuatro is smaller than a guitar. Cuatro means four in Spanish, although current instruments may have more than four strings....
  
  
• Phil Beer
  Phil Beer
  Phil Beer is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and one half of English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Biography:...
  
   - vocals, guitar, slide guitar
  Slide guitar
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
  
  , fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  , mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , cuatro
• Miranda Sykes - vocals, double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Jenna Witts - vocals and keyboards on tracks 15 & 16