Cold Frontier is a 2001 studio album

Album

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 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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"Are We Alright" was re-recorded for their best of album, Roots: The Best of Show of Hands. The song itself has become a live staple of the duo. Steve Knightley considers this one of the band's better but lesser-known albums (under-rated)

The album has been greatly received with positive reviews.

Track listing

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.

1. "Cold Frontier" – 4:15
2. "Are We Alright" – 3:10
3. "Come By" – 4:58
4. "Northwest Passage" (Stan Rogers
   Stan Rogers
   Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...
   
   ) – 3:54
5. "Widecombe Fair" – 3:27
6. "Things I Learnt This Year" – 3:49
7. "You're Mine" – 3:59
8. "Windchanges" – 3:23
9. "Don't Look Now" – 2:43
10. "Sally Free And Easy" (Cyril Tawney
    Cyril Tawney
    Cyril Tawney was an English singer-songwriter, proponent of the traditional songs of the West of England and traditional and modern maritime songs.- Biography :...
    
    ) – 5:13
11. "Yeovil Town" – 3:57
12. "Cold Heart Of England" – 3:24
13. "The Streets Of Forbes" (Trad arr. Knightley/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:...
    
    ) – 3:37
14. "The Flood" – 5:55

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, cuatro
  Cuatro (instrument)
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  , 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...
  
  , concertina
  Concertina
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• 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, cuatro, fiddle
  Fiddle
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  , guitar, mandocello, mandolin
  Mandolin
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  , viola
  Viola
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• Paul Downes - mandocello, backing vocals (track 6)
• John Redmond - bodhran
  Bodhrán
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  , backing vocals (track 6)
• Paul Wilson - melodeon
  Melodeon (organ)
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  , backing vocals (track 6)