CD1 of this excellent best of compilation , ‘Short Stories’, sees the band have chosing their favourite tracks from each of the studio albums.
Llive versions of three songs - ‘The Blue Cockade’ ‘Cousin Jack’ and ‘The Galway Farmer’ were included as they felt they put the earlier recorded versions in the shade
Four songs that have become concert standards, but hitherto existed only as live or low-key studio tracks, have been re-recorded,‘Crow on the Cradle’ ‘Santiago’ ‘Are we alright’ and ‘Exile’.
Ten years ago a group of Show of Hands fanatics created an Internet based forum and called themselves ‘Longdogs’. They were asked to pick one track from each album and CD2, ‘Longdogs’, is their choice.
All 30 songs have been re-mastered, creating the definitive Show of Hands collection.
| Track listing | |
Disc 1 - Short Stories |
Disc 2 - Longdogs |
| 1 Roots | 1 Columbus (Didn’t Find America) |
| 2 Are We Alright | 2 You’re Mine |
| 3 Exile | 3 The Blind Fiddler |
| 4 Country Life | 4 The Setting / Mary From Dungloe |
| 5 Widecombe Fair | 5 The Bristol Slaver |
| 6 The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe | 6 Port Isaac |
| 7 Santiago | 7 The Train / Blackwaterside |
| 8 Armadas | 8 Be Lucky |
| 9 The Blue Cockade | 9 Longdog |
| 10 Crow on the Cradle | 10 The Keeper |
| 11 The Preacher | 11 The Downeaster ‘Alexa’ |
| 12 Cousin Jack | 12 The Oak |
| 13 Cold Frontier | 13 Innocents’ Song / Gwithian |
| 14 Hard Shoulder | 14 Tall Ships |
| 15 Captains | |
| 16 The Galway Farmer |
£13.49 
