English Rebel Songs 1381-1914

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Album Info

Release Date: 1988

Label: Agit Prop

Tan outer sleeve with correct: "Distributed by Southern Studios" and "Made In France" printed on back cover. For the white sleeve with that text on a correction sticker see: English Rebel Songs 1381-1914.

The whole album is "a cappella" and the words are sung, with a couple of exceptions, how the band found them written.

Recorded April 1988 Woodlands Studio
Distributed by Southern Studios.
Made in France.

Chumbawamba on this recording are:
Harry, Simon Commonknowledge, Lou, Boff, Mavis Dillon, Cobie, Danbert Nobacon
Alice Nutter was otherwise engaged
Dunst was reading football fanzines

Die-cut cover reveals a part of the inner sleeve (an old gravure appears on each side).
Suggested retail price on front sleeve: "Pay no more than £4"

Cat# variations:
PROP 3 (cover and runout etchings)
Prop Three (both record labels)

Some of the songs taken from:
"Stand together" Hackney & Islington Music Workshop
"100 songs of toil" Karl Dallas
"A touch of the times" Roy Palmer
"A ballad history of England" Roy Palmer


- Lacquer cutting derived from "Ʊtopia", with the "U" drawn as a lyre/harp, and "MS".
- Pressing derived from "MPO"

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