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| Released | 19 November 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 1990–2007 | |||
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| Length | 152:49 | |||
| Label | Hands on Music | |||
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Roots, subtitled The Best of Show of Hands is a "best-of"/"greatest hits" album by British folk duo Show of Hands released in 2007,[1][2] the year of their 20th anniversary as an official collaboration (prior to 1987 they had collaborated several times without the name Show of Hands).
The album has two discs designed to be the best of the band's career. Short Stories (disc one) features some of the band's most popular songs whilst Longdogs (disc two) aimed to feature one track from each of their albums voted for in a poll on the duo's forum Longdogs.
The album received positive reviews such as in Living Tradition,[3] and Spiral Earth.[4]
fRoots reported that the album charted at number 22 in the "Amazon.co.uk Folk/Roots/World 30" in November 2015, described by the magazine as the "non-budget price CD sales from Amazon.co.uk" for folk, roots and world albums from that month.[5]
- ^ "BBC – Devon – People – The Best of Show of Hands". Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ "Roots: The Best of Show of Hands - Show of Hands | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Living Tradition CD review of SHOW OF HANDS - Roots, The Best of… Show of Hands". Archived from the original on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Roots The Best Of Show Of Hands album review at SpiralEarth.co.uk". www.spiralearth.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007.
- ^ "fRoots Charts and Lists". Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.