Songs of Innocence and of Experience is the title of an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1986. Brown sets the poetry of William Blake

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

 (see Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of...

) to music.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Tim Sheridan called the album "Some of the tunes are outstanding, such as the easy lines of "Lamb," while some poems refuse to adjust to Brown's melodic structures. However, it is an effort to be commended."

Track listing

All song by Greg Brown.

1. "Introduction" – 2:40
2. "The Lamb" – 2:54
3. "Infant Joy" – 2:02
4. "The Chimney Sweeper" – 4:54
5. "The Echoing Green" – 2:57
6. "Night" – 4:06
7. "On Another's Sorrow" – 2:15
8. "The Tyger" – 3:23
9. "The Angel" – 2:13
10. "The Garden of Love" – 0:47
11. "Infant Sorrow" – 1:33
12. "Holy Thursday" – 2:47
13. "Ah! Sun-Flower" – 2:27
14. "The Little Vagabond" – 2:55
15. "A Poison Tree" – 2:30
16. "London" – 3:08

Personnel

• Greg Brown – vocals, guitar
• Michael Doucet
  Michael Doucet
  Michael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA award, which recognizes artistic excellence, cultural...
  
   – violin
• Angus Foster – bass
• Peter Ostroushko
  Peter Ostroushko
  Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.-Background and career:Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis...
  
  – mandolin, violin
• Dave Moore – harmonica, accordion, pan flute, button accordion, pan pipes