Reviewed by Trevor Kirk

Listening to this album made me feel very old! Particularly when I looked at the sleevenotes and found that none of these songs date from later than 1975 and in fact a goodly few are by the prolific "Author Unknown". Adding to the time warp feel were the performances of these 19 pieces, over 63 minutes of music: acoustic guitars, the occasional tambourine and unison voices. In fact, exactly how we used to do them in our church youth club, way back when. I'd like to say that this album brought back happy memories - but I can't. The only thing it achieved was to make me grateful that praise and worship music, courtesy of Messrs Redman, Richards, Prosch and Kendrick, is now light years away from this sort of stuff. Perhaps I'm being a tad unfair, after all, the Fisherfolk were very popular and the music could be said to hark back to a time when life was a lot simpler. Nevertheless they were never at the cutting edge even then. Why Kingsway have released this puzzles me - I'm sorry to say that it's utterly irrelevant: these hoary old chestnuts belong in the museum.

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