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The Owl Service

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The Owl Service was an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist Steven Paul Collins (who led the band for its entire 10 year duration). The band name was taken from the title of a 1967 novel by Alan Garner. Formed June 2006 in Leigh-on-sea. Core members; Steven Collins and Jo Lepine, augmented by Nancy Wallace (of The Memory Band), Dom Cooper and Diana Collier. Single biggest influence; Paul Giovanni - an outsider who sensed what was at the heart of traditional British music

Top songs

  1. I Was a Young Man
  2. The North Country Maid
  3. Katie Cruel
  4. Turpin Hero
  5. Hoodening
  6. A Garland of Song (Folk Revival)
  7. North Country Maid
  8. Oxford City (or The Jealous Lover)
  9. The Lammas
  10. The Dorset Hanging Oak
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  1. Apple Tree Man
  2. North, County Maid
  3. Ladies Don't Go a-Thieving
  4. Corn Dollies
  5. Polly on the Shore
  6. The Banks of the Nile
  7. Flanders Shore
  8. Marianne
  9. Willie O'Winsbury
  10. Sorry the Day I Was Married
  11. Ladies, Don't Go a-Thieving
  12. The Lover's Ghost
  13. Drive the Cold Winter Away
  14. Cruel Mother
  15. psychomania
  16. The Bold Poachers
  17. The Two Magicians
  18. Wake the Vaulted Echo
  19. The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun
  20. The Loyal Lover
  21. Within Sound
  22. When a Man's in Love
  23. The Widow's Lament
  24. January Snows
  25. January Snows (Fragment)
  26. Winter (A Dirge)
  27. Cold & Raw
  28. The False Knight
  29. Willie O'Winsbury (Reprise)
  30. The Bitter Withy
  31. Searching for Rowan/Cave Chase
  32. Fine Horseman
  33. Child Ballad no. 49 (Or The Rolling of the Stones)
  34. The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Fragment)
  35. The Rolling of the Stones
  36. In Thorneymoor Woods pt.1
  37. Geordie
  38. The Skater
  39. Sea Song
  40. In Thorneymoor Woods pt.2
  41. By the Setting of the Sun
  42. child ballad no. 49 (the rolling of the stone)
  43. Salisbury Plain
  44. Child Ballad No.49 (Or The Rolling Of The Stones)
  45. Living by the Water
  46. Searching For Rowan / Cave Chase
  47. A Lyke Wake Dirge
  48. Saturnalia Song
  49. Willie's Lady
  50. King Henry VII & the Shipwrights
  51. Hugh of Lincoln
  52. The Bear Ghost
  53. Cruel Mother
  54. Child Ballad no. 219 (The Gardener Child)
  55. Edi Beo
  56. A Child's Calendar
  57. In Thorneymoor Woods, Pt. 1
  58. Wake the Vaulted Echo [Tigon Mix]
  59. Child Ballad No 49 (Or The Rolling Of The Stones)
  60. Ladies, Don't Go (A-Thieving)
  61. In Thorneymoor Woods, Pt. 2
  62. Psychmania
  63. A Moor, a Moor, a Mire
  64. Oxford City
  65. Child Ballad no. 219 (Or The Gardener Child)
  66. Spring Strathspey
  67. The Stone Bequest
  68. Child Ballad no.49 (The Rolling of the Stones)
  69. Child Ballad No.219 (The Gardener Child)
  70. Daniel/Take Me To Your Lover
  71. The Gardener Child
  72. Night Falls On Summer's End
  73. Robin Hood & the Bold Peddlar
  74. The Bessy & the Fool/Molly Dance
  75. Haul the Plough
  76. Child Ballad no.219 (Or The Gardener Child)
  77. Wake The Vaulted Echo (Tigon Mix by RAF)
  78. Willie O'Winsbury - Reprise
  79. Time Is Ripe
  80. Halloween
  81. Meditations on the Epiphany
  82. Standing on the Shore
  83. Maverick You Are
  84. Rise Me Lads
  85. Daniel/Take Me to My Lover
  86. Child Ballad No 219 (Or The Gardener Child)
  87. The Red Barn
  88. The North Country Maid (rough mix)
  89. A Christmas Fantasie
  90. How the Gods Kill

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