Bella Hardy - Postcards & Pocketbooks: The Best Of Bella Hardy (CD)

Postcards & Pocketbooks is a double CD of Bella Hardy's most highly treasured works, with remastered recordings of classic material and two new tracks, Tequila Moon and Sheep Crook & Black Dog. With unflinching courage, Bella has explored and blurred musical boundaries in her search for meaning. From her mastery of tradition music and the stripped back strings and concertina of her debut album Night Visiting (2007), to the electric guitar and drums in the self-penned humanist hymns and feminist battle cries of Hey Sammy (2017), via the Derbyshire ballads of The Dark Peak & The White and ancient Chinese poetry of Eternal Spring, an album of songs and poetry recorded in China. Her themes of displacement and home, lost and found love, heartache and joy, are delivered with her unique, disarming honesty, and, of course, the acclaimed crystalline voice that won herBBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Singer of the Year.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Learning To Let Go
2. Whisky You’re The Devil
3. The Herring Girl
4. The Driving Of The Deer
5. First Light OF The Morning
6. Sylvie Sovay
7. The Darkening Of The Day
8. Maying Song
9. Jenny Wren
10. Guan Guan
11. The Seventh Girl
12. Full Moon Over Amsterdam (2019)
13. Sheep Crook ; Black Dog
14. Three Black Feathers (2019)
15. The Only Thing To Do
16. The Drunken Butcher Of Tideswell
17. True Hearted Girl
18. Queen Of Carter’s Bar
19. The Oak ; The Ivy
20. Lament For Derwent Village
21. Good Man’s Wife
22. Walk It With You
23. Time Wanders On (2019)
24. Low Down In The Broom
25. Jolly Good Luck To The Girl That Loves A Soldier
26. Redemption
27. Tequila Moon