SHOW OF HANDS Roots: The Best of Show of Hands (2007 UK 30-track double compilation CD pulling together a comprehensive Show of Hands collection including some of their best-loved songs on a specially produced double CD all remastered with a casebound book package. For the first CD, the band have chosen their favourite tracks from each of the studio albums, plus live versions of three songs, 'The Blue Cockade', 'Cousin Jack' and 'The Galway Farmer' that were felt to improve on the recorded versions. Four songs that have become concert standards yet hitherto were never available in definitive studio versions have been re-recorded, 'Crow On The Cradle', 'Santiago', 'Are We Alright' and 'Exile'. The second CD was chosen by the 'Longdogs', who are long term SOH fans, covering additional fan favourites. A superb introduction to Show Of Hands taken from the entire of their fifteen year career HMCD28)