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Sir Thomas Tildersley

from A Silk Purse by Pig's Ear

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A forgotten hero of the losing side, Sir Thomas Tildersley died in 1651 at the Battle of Wigan, toward the end of the English Civil War. It's a sad fact that building a monument to the vanquished is no way to guarantee them a place in the nation's memory. However, the songsmith occasionally succeeds where the stonemason fails, as this stirring song testifies.

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from A Silk Purse, released December 30, 2001
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Pig's Ear England, UK

Pig's Ear was a family folk group that entertained audiences from the late 1980s to 2011, with a mix of carefully collected and researched traditional folk, self-penned songs and creative musical arrangements. Based in Kent, near the Sussex & Surrey border, in 2003 they started a small festival 'The Pig's Ear Folk Ale' at Markbeech, Kent which is still going today - folkale.co.uk ... more

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