Freedom Fields is a music album by Seth Lakeman

Seth Lakeman

Seth Bernard Lakeman is an English folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but has also mastered the viola and banjo...

 published twice in 2006. It is his third album as a principal performer. It is named for a park in Plymouth, England

Plymouth

Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...

, where the Sabbath Day Fight is commemorated.

First edition

The first edition (first pressing) includes a bonus disc of material. This edition was released 20 March 2006, under Lakeman's former record company, iScream.

Primary disc

1. "The Charmer" (Seth Lakeman) – 2:33
2. "Lady of the Sea" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:24
3. "Childe the Hunter" (traditional/arranged) – 4:18
4. "The White Hare" (traditional/arranged) – 3:30
5. "The Colliers" (traditional/arranged) – 3:14
6. "King and Country" (Seth Lakeman) – 4:27
7. "The Setting of the Sun" (traditional/arranged) – 4:01
8. "Take No Rogues" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:55
9. "1643" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:25
10. "The Riflemen of War" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:52
11. "The Band of Gold" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:14
12. "The Final Lot" (Seth Lakeman) – 1:53

Limited Edition bonus disc

The second pressing of the first edition did not contain the bonus disc.

1. "Lady of the Sea (Live)"
2. "Ye Mariners All (Live)"

CD-ROM features

• "Kitty Jay" video
• "The White Hare" video
• "The White Hare" animation
• 2004 live tour video

Second edition

This edition was released on 21 August 2006 under Lakeman's new record company, Relentless. There are a number of differences between the first and second editions of the album. The track listing is more or less the same, but with a slightly different order and the addition of the bonus track "Send Yourself Away", from his first album, The Punch Bowl

The Punch Bowl (album)

The Punch Bowl is a music album by Seth Lakeman published in 2002. It is his first album as a principal performer.-Track listing:#"Garden of Grace" – 3:15#"Image of Love" – 3:11...

. Two of the tracks, "Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling)" and "The White Hare" have been remixed. In addition the second edition does not include the bonus disc and the cover design is different from the previous edition.

The second edition charted at #32 in the UK Top 40 and at #19 in the HMV Album Chart on 29 August 2006.

Second edition track listings

1. "Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling)" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:24 (UK 54 on 14 August 2006)
2. "Setting of the Sun" (traditional/arranged) – 4:01
3. "The White Hare (Album Version)" (traditional/arranged) – 3:30
4. "The Colliers" (traditional/arranged) – 3:14
5. "King and Country" (Seth Lakeman) – 4:27
6. "Childe the Hunter" (traditional/arranged) – 4:18
7. "Take No Rogues" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:55
8. "1643" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:25
9. "The Riflemen of War" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:52
10. "The Charmer" (Seth Lakeman) – 2:33
11. "The Final Lot" (Seth Lakeman) – 1:53
12. "The Band of Gold" (Seth Lakeman) – 3:14

Bonus track : "Send Yourself Away" (inspired by Kathleen Partridge) – 2:45

Subject matter

Many of the songs are based on or inspired by real incidents.

• "The Colliers" : the Gresford Disaster
  Gresford Disaster
  The Gresford Disaster was one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters and mining accidents. It occurred on September 22, 1934 at Gresford Colliery near Wrexham, in north-east Wales, when 266 men died. Only eleven bodies were ever recovered from the mine....
  
  
• "1643" : a battle that year at Plymouth
  Plymouth
  Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
  
  , part of the First English Civil War
  First English Civil War
  The First English Civil War began the series of three wars known as the English Civil War . "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, and includes the Second English Civil War and...
  
  
• "Riflemen of War" : a 1653 victory in the Anglo-Dutch Wars
  Anglo-Dutch Wars
  The Anglo–Dutch Wars were a series of wars fought between the English and the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes. The first war took place during the English Interregnum, and was fought between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic...
  
  
• "Childe the Hunter" : The story of Childe the Hunter who died on Dartmoor
  Dartmoor
  Dartmoor is an area of moorland in south Devon, England. Protected by National Park status, it covers .The granite upland dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history. The moorland is capped with many exposed granite hilltops known as tors, providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife. The...
  
  

Personnel

Main:

• Seth Lakeman
  Seth Lakeman
  Seth Bernard Lakeman is an English folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but has also mastered the viola and banjo...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , tenor guitar
  Tenor guitar
  1932 Martin 0-18 T Sunburst Tenor Guitar|thumb|rightThe tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was developed so that players of the four-string tenor banjo could double on the guitar...
  
  , violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Ben Nicholls – 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...
  
  , electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  
• Sean Lakeman – 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...
  
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• Cormac Byrne – bodhran
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Benji Kirkpatrick
  Bellowhead
  Bellowhead are an English contemporary folk band originally brought together by John Spiers and Jon Boden. The eleven-piece band plays traditional dance tunes, folk songs and shanties, with arrangements drawing inspiration from a wide diversity of musical styles and influences...
  
   – bouzouki
  Bouzouki
  The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
  
  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  

Supporting:

• Steve Knightley
  Steve Knightley
  Steve Knightley is a singer-songwriter, musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Career:...
  
   – vocals
• John Jones
  Oysterband
  Oysterband is a British electric folk or folk rock band formed in Canterbury in or around 1976.-Early history:...
  
   – vocals
• Kathryn Roberts
  Kathryn Roberts
  Kathryn Roberts is an English folk singer, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire.Her first released recordings were on the album Intuition, a collection of songs by various South Yorkshire folk artists which also included her friend Kate Rusby...
  
   – vocals
• Cara Dillon
  Cara Dillon
  Cara Dillon is an Irish folk singer. In 2001, she launched her career as a solo artist in the UK with the eponymous Cara Dillon album...
  
   – vocals
• DBG – vocals
• Bert Cleaver – pipe, tabor
  Tabor
  -Places:* Mount Tabor * Tábor, Czech Republic** Taborite, member of a 15th century Czech religious group considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church* Tabor, Slovenia, town and municipality...
  
  
• Jonny Crosbie – marracas