The Oyster Band - Trawler (CD 1994)

Powerful! Some of this collection are re-recordings to include the influence of new band members and the sound is hardened and tightened-up. The early Hal-an-Tow is a slap in the face to those with preformed expectations of folk-rock: the new version here is a kick in the balls! There isn't a duff track on the whole collection. The greatest empirically based recommendation I can give this CD is that, in my 50 years of music buying, I've had quite a few LPs nicked but only one CD: this one and it's been nicked TWICE! Even more telling, each time a copy 'got lost' I was working in a team where I was the oldest by a factor of 2 with some of the 'kids' not twenty yet but this CD was good enough to drive them to theft!!