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The Long Way Home is the seventeenth studio album by the folk duo Show of Hands. It was released on 15 January 2016, although copies were available at dates on the autumn tour in 2015.[1]

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The Long Way Home
Studio album by Show of Hands
Released	15 January 2016
Recorded	2015
Genre	Folk
Label	Hands on Music
Show of Hands chronology
Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War (2014) The Long Way Home (2016) Battlefield Dance Floor (2019)

It reached number 70 on the UK Albums Chart,[2] and number 9 in the UK Independent Albums Chart.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Acoustic Magazine	(favourable)[4]
Bright Young Folk	(favourable)[5]
The Daily Telegraph	[6]
Fatea Records	(favourable)[7]
Folk Radio	(favourable)[8]
Folk Worlds	(favourable)[9]
fRoots	(favourable)[10]
The Guardian	[11]
Louder Than War	(8/10)[12]
Songwriting Magazine	[13]

Acoustic Magazine says the album shows the duo "continuing to build an astonishing legacy" and "returning to their roots". They concluded that it "skillfully weaves all the coherent folk themes together to a coherent whole".[4]

The Daily Telegraph ranked the album at number 8 in their list of "The Best Folk Albums of 2016."[6]

Track listing

Taken from album notes:[14]

1. Breme Fell At Hastings (Steve Knightley)
2. Hallows Eve (Chris Hoban)
3. Hambledon Fair (Trad Arr. Knightley) Tune - Portsdown Hill (Knightley)
4. The Long Way Home (Knightley)
5. Keep Hauling (Andrew Cadie)
6. 'Twas On One April's Morning (Trad Arr. Knightley/Phil Beer) Tune - Isca Rose (Knightley)
7. Sweet Bella (Knightley)
8. The Old Lych Way (Hoban)
9. Walk With me (When The Sun Goes Down) (Knightley)
10. Virginia (Trad Arr. Knightley/Beer)
11. John Harrisons' Hands (Dick Gaughan/Brian McNeil)
12. Mesopotamia (Knightley)

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[15]	70
UK Independent Albums Chart[3]	9

References

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