Past Times with Good Company

For the English folk song written by King Henry VIII, see Pastime with Good Company.

Past Times with Good Company
Live album by
Blackmore's Night
ReleasedOctober 22, 2002 (Germany)
February 20, 2003 (US)
RecordedMay 3, 2002
GenreCeltic, folk rock, neo-Medieval, hard rock
Length1:49:28
LabelSPV/Steamhammer
ProducerRitchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night chronology
Fires at Midnight
(2001)		 Past Times with Good Company
(2002)		 Ghost of a Rose
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Past Times with Good Company is a double live album by the band Blackmore's Night, recorded in May 2002 in Groningen, the Netherlands. It was released in October 2002 in Europe and in February 2003 in the USA and Canada. The European version includes a Greek rendition of "Home Again" and extra live tracks recorded at a press show in Solingen, Germany. CD 2 of the special Limited Edition leather-bound hard-cover package includes two bonus tracks: an acoustic "Fires At Midnight" and "Home Again" sung in Greek. The album's title is a homage to the 16th century English folk song "Pastime with Good Company", composed by King Henry VIII, and performed in a special 2-part arrangement by Blackmore's Night on this recording. "Fires At Midnight" is another piece with a royal lineage, attributed to King Alphonso X of Spain.

Track listing
Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Shadow of the Moon"10:56
2."Play Minstrel Play"4:34
3."Minstrel Hall"5:43
4."Past Time with Good Company"7:04
5."Fires at Midnight"12:28
6."Under a Violet Moon"5:01
7."Soldier of Fortune"4:21
Disc two
No.TitleLength
8."16th Century Greensleeves"4:44
9."Beyond the Sunset"5:28
10."Morning Star"6:09
11."Home Again"6:32
12."Renaissance Faire"5:07
13."I Still Remember"7:03
14."Durch den Wald zum Bachhaus"3:11
15."Writing on the Wall"6:00
German release limited edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."Fires at Midnight" (acoustic)9:50
17."Home Again" (sung in Greek)5:17
Additional tracks on Japanese release
No.TitleLength
18."Memmingen"2:18

Personnel

Production notes
  • Produced by Ritchie Blackmore

Covers

Two of the tracks on this album are covers from Ritchie Blackmore's earlier bands.

Charts
Chart (2002) Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[2] 62
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References
  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. Past Times with Good Company at AllMusic
  2. "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
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