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Levellers - Levelling The land [Collectors Edition - Remastered & Expanded] (2007)

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Levellers have long been and still are, one of the best live bands around. Often overlooked is their outstanding back catalogue of recorded music. Levellers sold more platinum, gold, and silver albums in the 1990s than any other act.
The Levellers have always been unfairly neglected and underated by the music media. Largely this is due to the fact that, for all of their feigned liberal trendiness,the music press like artists that fall within certain parameters and the Levellers, with their 'crusty', anarcho-punk connotations were always viewed with sniffy suspicion. However the Levs made it big despite this and a major reason why is the high quality of 'Levelling the Land', their second album. Its an excellent album from start to finish, with no real weak tracks on it. Simon Friend had just joined the group, btinging with him some excellent protest songs; 'Sell Out', 'Another Man's Cause' and 'Battle of the Beanfield'. The album also contains the classic 'One Way' as well as great melodic footappers such as 'Far From Home' and 'The Road'.
This was the first Levellers album to feature the input of Simon Friend as songwriter, vocalist and musician. Simon replaced Alan Miles, who had sung and played guitar and mandolin on the previous album, A Weapon Called the Word. The Liberty Song on this album was co-written by original member Alan Miles.
This is without doubt their best album and with this new version you get bonus tracks from the 'Fifteen Years' EP and other singles,as well as a live CD of the BBC's recording of the era-defining headline slot at Glastonbury Festival.


Track listing:

1. "One Way"
2. "The Game"
3. "Fifteen Years"
4. "The Boatman"
5. "Liberty Song" (co-written by original member Alan Miles)
6. "Far From Home"
7. "Sell Out"
8. "Another Man's Cause"
9. "The Road"
10. "The Riverflow"
11. "Battle of the Beanfield"

The 2007 re-issue of this album also included the bonus tracks:

1. "Last Days of Winter"
2. "Dance Before the Storm"
3. "Hard Fight"
4. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
5. "Plastic Jeezus"

A bonus live disc was recorded at Glastonbury in 1992:

1. "The Game"
2. "World Freak Show" (co-wrote by original member Alan Miles)
3. "Dance Before the Storm"
4. "The Boatman"
5. "Far From Home"
6. "Sell Out"
7. "The Riverflow"
8. "Battle of the Beanfield"
9. "Jig/Three Friends"
10. "Liberty Song"
11. "One Way"
12. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"


Personel:

Mark Chadwick - Lead vocals, guitars, harmonica
Simon Friend - Backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 4 and 11, guitars, mandolin, banjo, harmonica
Jeremy Cunningham - Bass guitar, album artwork
Jonathan Sevink - Fiddle
Charlie Heather - Drums/percussion



Original Release date: October 1991
Remaster Release Date: 16/07/2007

Format: MP3 - 320kbps
Ripped With: Poikosoft EasyCD-DA Extractor (Professional) Version 11.5.2 (Build 3)

Size: 270MB

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