The Definitive Collection

Released 2007
1. Doing Time To Fit Your Crime
2. Harry Stone (Hearts Of Coal)
3. Yonder (Down The Winding Road)
4. Sweet Rose Of Adelaide
5. Spanish Bride
6. Evona
7. Polska (The Clunch) / The Traveller
8. Bitter Withy
9. Lay Me Low
10. Hugh Stenson And Molly Green
11. Unity (Raise Your Banners High)
12. Scarecrow

The Reckoning

John Tams & The Reckoning Band
Barry Coope, Graeme Taylor, Andy Seward, Keith Angel, Roger Wilson, Steve Dawson

2005
TSCD551
Topic Records

Released 2005
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
Album of the Year
Traditional Track of the Year
**** 4 stars - awesome.' - Uncut
**** a tour de force - an album that grows in stature with every play.
An exceptional album.' - Mojo
'The stunning showcase for an awesome talent.' - Virgin Megastore
'It's the business - I love it.' - Bob Hoskins

1. Written in the Book
2. Safe House [listen]
3. Amelia
4. How High the Price/All Clouds the Sky/St. Hilda's Waltz
5. Bitter Withy
6. A Man of Constant Sorrow [listen]
7. The Sea: Pretty Nancy
- The Sea: A Sailor's Life
- The Sea: One More Day
- The Sea: As I Looked East, As I Looked West
8. Including Love [listen]

Home

John Tams

2003
TSCD533
Topic Records

Home Released 2003
Roots Album of the Year - What's On in London
**** Four Stars - The Times
'..a wonderful album from one of our very finest songwriters.' - Bob Harris, broadcaster

1. You Don't Know Me Anymore
2. Another Grey and Grim Old Grimy Day [listen]
3. Yonder (Down the Winding Road)
4. The Ballroom
5. Hugh Stenson and Molly Green [listen]
6. Right On Line
7. The Traveller
8. Red Gown [listen]
9. Bound East for Cardiff
10. When This Song Is Ended There's No More

Unity

John Tams

2000
TSCD508
Topic Records

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
Album of the Year
Original Song of the Year - Harry Stone
'Few albums in any genre, will carry such emotional resonance as this.' - Mojo Magazine
'Quality shines through the entire album ...almost every track could be a contender for Song of the Year, performed with unfailing taste and integrity.' Colin Irwin - Folk Roots
'Though Unity has been a long time coming, patience finally gets its reward. It's a gently warming album full of finely crafted songs, driven by a rare political heartbeat and delivered without fuss or affectation.' Four stars - Q Magazine

1. Whole New Vision
2. American Dream (Girl In Texas)
3. From Where I Lie/Sheepcounting
4. Unity (Raise Your Banners High) [listen]
5. Spanish Bride
6. Somewhere The Sun Is Shining/Hold Back The Tide
7. Winds Of Change (Yalta Beach Bonfire Night 1992) [listen]
8. Harry Stone (Hearts Of Coal)
9. Who Will Blow The Candle Out Tonight [listen]