Hardy,Bella 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 her BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Singer of the Year.

1. Learning To Let Go 2. Whisky YouÆre 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 CarterÆs Bar 19. The Oak ; The Ivy 20. Lament For Derwent Village 21. Good ManÆs 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