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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 27/06/2026 - Track 5 My final selection from The Path is final full length track on the album, Golden Cap. This beautifully atmospheric song marks Golden Cap in Dorset, the highest point on the South coast. Like Port Isaac, this is an instrumental reworking of a well known Show Of Hands song, The Blue Cockade. Album Of The Week - 27/06/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from The Path is a piece of music that is instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with Show Of Hands. The track, Port Isaac is in instrumental version of the classic, Cousin Jack, adapted for this project. The track marks the coastal town in Cornwall that has been made famous by the superb shanty band Fisherman's Frieds and the long running TV show Doc Martin. Album Of The Week - 27/06/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from The Path is the jaunty little piece, Carbis Bay, a coastal village on the North coast of Cornwall which is a very popular holiday destination...
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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...
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