Hang Up Sorrow and Care

Hang Up Sorrow and Care is an album by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. Released in 1995, it is a loose concept album, with renditions of songs that were written hundreds of years ago.

Critical reception
Stereo Review stated: "Ballads and dances to the heart and the bottle are expertly played in a trad setting that features such instruments as lute, recorder, hoboy, curtal, kazoo, and 'ye great dooble bass'." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch deemed Hang Up Sorrow and Care "the most inspired drinking album of the digital era."

AllMusic wrote that "Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band have made a real party album, of witty, upbeat traditional songs from the British Isles."

Track listing

 * 1) Prodigal's Resolution (Anon 18th century)
 * 2) 5 Playford Tunes (from Playford's "English Dancing Master")
 * 3) The World is Turned Upside Down (Anon 17th century)
 * 4) Jovial Beggar (Anon 17th century)
 * 5) Leathern Bottle (Anon 17th century)
 * 6) Iantha (Anon English 18th century)
 * 7) An Thou were my ain Thing (Anon Scottish 18th century)
 * 8) Oh that I had but a Fine Man (Pelham Humphry)
 * 9) Now O Now I needs must part (John Dowland)
 * 10) Man is for the Woman made (Henry Purcell)
 * 11) A Northern Catche/The Little Barleycorne (John Hilton/Trad)
 * 12) Granny's Delight/My Lady Foster's Delight (Anon 18th century)
 * 13) A Round of Three Country Dances in One (Thomas Ravenscroft)
 * 14) Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
 * 15) In The Days of my Youth (Words: John Gay/Tune: anon)
 * 16) Never weatherbeaten sail (Thomas Campion)
 * 17) Old Simon the King (Anon)

Personnel

 * Maddy Prior - vocals
 * William Badley - baroque guitar, lute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo mandolin, vocals
 * Andrew Davis - Double Bass
 * Giles Lewin - violin, recorders, hoboy, mandolin, vocals
 * Andrew Watts - Flemish bagpipes, shalman, curtals, recorders, melodica, kazoo, vocals
 * Rafaello Mizraki - drums, percussion, cello, Hammond organ, vocals
 * Arrangements by Andrew Watts