Rev Hammer

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Burford Stomp 00:00 Tools
Seventeen Years of Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Valediction 00:00 Tools
The Whipping Song 00:00 Tools
Exile 00:00 Tools
The Battle of Brentford 00:00 Tools
Bonny Besses 00:00 Tools
California Bound 00:00 Tools
Down In the Alley 00:00 Tools
England's New Chains 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth's Great Gallop 00:00 Tools
True Blue 00:00 Tools
The Return to London 00:00 Tools
Ole Welsh Soul 00:00 Tools
Springtime In England 00:00 Tools
Lilburne's Death Song 00:00 Tools
The Great Eradicator 00:00 Tools
No One Or Nothing 00:00 Tools
Down By The River 'O' 00:00 Tools
Pillory Scene / Commons of England (June 1637) 00:00 Tools
The Return From Exile 00:00 Tools
Punchdrunk 00:00 Tools
Johnny Reggae 00:00 Tools
Every Woman's Pain 00:00 Tools
Raise That Lion 00:00 Tools
Alabaster 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Flannagan 00:00 Tools
Every Step Of The Way 00:00 Tools
Down By The River ‘O’ 00:00 Tools
Etain 00:00 Tools
Ellan Vannin 00:00 Tools
Circular Blues 00:00 Tools
Tranquility Of Solitude 00:00 Tools
Rocks 00:00 Tools
Caledonian Rain 00:00 Tools
Shuttin' The Ole Dirt Down 00:00 Tools
Drunkards Waltz 00:00 Tools
Caledonia Rain 00:00 Tools
The Lamb 00:00 Tools
Shanty 00:00 Tools
Return To London 00:00 Tools
Elizabeths Great Gallop 00:00 Tools
The Chase 00:00 Tools
Return From Exile 00:00 Tools
Jack O'Green 00:00 Tools
Just Like Trevelyan 00:00 Tools
Shuttin’ The Ole Dirt Down 00:00 Tools
England’s New Chains * 00:00 Tools
Overture 00:00 Tools
(Worse & Worse) Like The Son Of A Goat 00:00 Tools
Righteous 00:00 Tools
Lilburne’s Death Song 00:00 Tools
Mimi Mae 00:00 Tools
"Au" 00:00 Tools
Ghost of walachin 00:00 Tools
Down by the River €˜o' 00:00 Tools
Drunkard's waltz 00:00 Tools
Spanish Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Englands New Chains 00:00 Tools
Down By The River O 00:00 Tools
(Worse And Worse) Like The Son Of A Goat 00:00 Tools
River'o 00:00 Tools
Christmas Future 00:00 Tools
Rosie 00:00 Tools
Downpressor man 00:00 Tools
Maid Of The River 00:00 Tools
Caledonia Rain (piano version) 00:00 Tools
The Green Fool 00:00 Tools
Stealing 00:00 Tools
Paling Of The Moon 00:00 Tools
Connersville Girl 00:00 Tools
The Mutineer 00:00 Tools
Happy Birthday Revolution 00:00 Tools
Old Bell County 00:00 Tools
Maid of the River (Arr. Jessica Wells) 00:00 Tools
Child Of The Wind 00:00 Tools
Put It On Red 00:00 Tools
Swansfeather 00:00 Tools
Black Coal Hole 00:00 Tools
Buford Stomp 00:00 Tools
Ferdinand 00:00 Tools
Speech # 2 00:00 Tools
Punch Drunk 00:00 Tools
Little Boy Blue 00:00 Tools
Swan's Feather 00:00 Tools
Pillory Scene/Commons of England (June 1637) 00:00 Tools
Mary, Mary 00:00 Tools
When I Come Through For You 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Heart 00:00 Tools
Worse and Worse 00:00 Tools
Ye Olde Farmer 00:00 Tools
Dementia Pugilistica 00:00 Tools
Rumour and Rapture 00:00 Tools
Speech No. 1 00:00 Tools
Cold Wind 00:00 Tools
Wedding Ground 00:00 Tools
Pillory Scene/June 1637 00:00 Tools
England’s New Chains 00:00 Tools
Apple / This Time 00:00 Tools
Goldwatch Blues 00:00 Tools
Pour Your Whisky On My Road 00:00 Tools
Skald 00:00 Tools
Nose Dive 00:00 Tools
St. John 00:00 Tools
Happy Father's Day 00:00 Tools
Ready and Waiting 00:00 Tools
Flight of Fancy 00:00 Tools
This Is the Love 00:00 Tools
Corncrake 00:00 Tools
Saline 00:00 Tools
The Return from Exile - Rory McLeod 00:00 Tools
Dementia Pugilistrica 00:00 Tools
Long Way Down 00:00 Tools
Battle Of Brentford 00:00 Tools
Down by the river 00:00 Tools
Whipping Song 00:00 Tools
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Rev Hammer regards his music not so much as a passport to fame and fortune but as a ticket to ride. He learned to play guitar and sing at the same time and wisely thought busking was the best way to get to a standard where he could play publicly. Rev spent 18 months busking in the streets before he dared stand on a stage. Rev's debut album "Industrial Sound and Magic" was recorded in a cow shed in Essex on a budget of nothing but, given that that the backing band (which gave its services for free) was The Levellers, this offbeat album has opened up intriguing windows of opportunity. In 1986 he became a founder member of The Red Sky Coven together with poet Joolz and Justin Sullivan. The show mixes acoustic songs, poetry, humour and story-telling in the best traditions of the travelling bards. It continues to sell out within the UK and Europe. 1991 saw the release of Rev's debut album, "Industrial Sound & Magic" on the Cooking Vinyl label. The follow up album, "Bishop Of Buffalo" (also on the Cooking Vinyl label) mixed acoustic ballads with hard electric songs and was produced by long-time friend Justin Sullivan. The unusual title was arrived at when Rev Hammer (christened Stephen Ryan and brought up near Royston) found that he shared his real name with the 1860's second Bishop of Buffalo in America. Intrigued by the connection he began researching and wrote to the current Bishop of Buffalo, sending him a copy of his album. The album received the current Bishop's blessings! "Bishop Of Buffalo" features Dave Blomberg from New Model Army on guitar and Stepan Pasicynyk of The Ukrainians on accordion. In the winter of '94-'95 Rev joined the 'Serious Road Trip', a charity entertainment troupe, and (along with jugglers, clowns, DJ's and other musicians) toured refugee camps in Slovenia and Croatia. The camps served as 'homes' for thousands of victims of the Balkan conflicts and wars. On arrival at a camp a spontaneous show was performed and workshops went long into the night. The money for the 'Serious Road Trip' had been raised by live shows and performances in England and aid was also carried to many of the most disadvantaged areas. In the autumn of '95 two songs written by Rev featured on top-selling albums. "Maid Of The River" was featured on The Levellers "Zeitgeist" album. "Searchlights" was included on the record breaking "Help" album which raised yet more funds for the war victims in Croatia and Bosnia. Rev started work on the "Freeborn John" album late in 1995. It was, like all masterpieces, an ambitious project and it took two wonder-full years to record. It tells a musical story of John Lilburne, England's first radical and unsung hero of the English Civil War. Audiences and performers, charmed on the wings of great songs and a big issue, revel in the visceral thrill of the words and music of "Freeborn John" and realise Lilburne's immediate relevance to contemporary England. The songs and characters are populated by Rev, Maddy Prior, The Levellers, Justin Sullivan, New Model Army, Eddi Reader, Rory McLeod, Harry S. Fulcher and Phil Johnstone. Phil produced the album and Mike Gregovich made it sound like les ballons du chiens. The "Freeborn John" show was performed to standing ovations on all three nights of the 2005 Beautiful Days Festival thanks to the faith of Dave Farrow. 2007 will see a great deal of the "Freeborn John" show, as will you. In the summer of 1996, immediately after the Freeborn John album was finished, Rev recorded the acoustic “Green Fool Recordings” album in five days. Rev comments: “Having proved to ourselves that we could work quickly..... my producer, Phil Johnstone, and I (the years I've waited to say that!) started recording “Spitting Feathers”. We had no record company to hurry us along but we also had no studio to use for a year whilst Phil moved his family to Exeter. In Devon even fast things get slow very quickly so...here it is: recorded in glorious technicolour, with 20 musicians and the odd ...well I can't get into that here...Spitting Feathers has arrived...right on time! It sounds big. However, don't get fooled by that...so does George W.Bush but he's not on the album. Phil and me are. So is Rob Heaton (who we miss dearly), Jon Sevink, Pierre Noir ...I could go on...oh ok then...Martin Le Fop Pannett, Harry Fulcher and Rob Wheeler. Enough, enough already! We have been waiting as fast as we can." Love y'all, Rev vie xxx 2010 saw the releae of of Rev's latest album Down in the Alley. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.