Do we need this? I don't know! Maybe somebody will reply, maybe not.

I will go back a couple of days to get the thing started.

Ashley Hutchings, Kicking up the Sawdust, UK Harvest SHSP 4073. Dance, dance, dance, some of it live with actual dancers.

Ashley Hutchings, Rattlebone & Plowjack, UK Island Help 24. Molly Dancing and Border Morris, with readings, just what eveyone here was waiting for, I'm sure.

Five Hand Reel, UK Rubber RUB 019. Disappointing, put back after one side.

Pyewackett, UK Dingle DIN 312. This is a fine folk LP that I have always enjoyed. Rather hard to find.

Pentangle, Cruel Sister, UK Transatlantic TRA 228. Now we are up to the great masters of UK folk, a group someone here might conceivably have heard of. The UK mastering is so much better than my US WLP I couldn't believe it. Jack Orion is really fantastic, there's a lot of instrumental interplay I can't hear on the US copy.

On the turntable right now, Richard Thompson, Henry the Human Fly. Not the Island original, but the Carthage from the 80s that is quite respectable. It has incredible bass, and some his best songwriting - he really had talent to burn as a young man. Not that he doesn't know, but it's a lot more mannered.

Hey, I can dig this.........

I just gotta dig up those two Bert Jansch LPs I scored last week.

Hmmm....this may take a while to catch on.

Today's spins, both from the North

The Clutha, Scots Ballads, Songs & Dance Tunes, UK Topic 12TS242. Very fine and tuneful, shaped a bit by literary and music hall influence. The popular singers of the 18th and 19th century were a competitive and inquisitive lot. Contains fine Shetland-style fiddling.

The High Level Ranters, Northumberland for Ever, UK Topic 12TS186. A much rawer folk album, with some rather risque material sung in an incomprehensible Geordie accent.

Enya - Watermark, 1988

I listened to these two recordings today after seeing this thread yesterday.In my eyes,Not traditional folk,
But great music from Ireland-

A Real world recording and sound track to a film by
Iarla O` Lionaird-I could read the sky
Classic Waterboys-Fishermans blue's

I haven't played the Waterboys in years, so I had to pull out my copy of Fisherman's Blues.

It's not bad of its kind, although there are better. I thought I had a Pogues record I liked, but I can't seem to find it.

Back to the real thing! Earlier tonight, a real classic, the Pentangle's Basket of Light on UK Transatlantic TRA 205.

Now up, John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris, 'Among the Many Attractions at the Show will Be a Really High-Class Band', on UK Topic. This pair were really folky hippies who played traditional songs of the 18th and 19th centuries. John is an Anglo-Concertina player, and Sue plays hamered dulcimer. They recorded five LPs on topic during the 70s, of which I have four.

They are an acquired taste; they may well prove too folky for some. There is not much competition for the LPs, except for the one I don't have.

Ashley Hutchings, Rattlebone & Plowjack, UK Island Help 24. Molly Dancing and Border Morris, with readings, just what eveyone here was waiting for, I'm sure.

Pentangle, Cruel Sister, UK Transatlantic TRA 228. Now we are up to the great masters of UK folk, a group someone here might conceivably have heard of. The UK mastering is so much better than my US WLP I couldn't believe it. Jack Orion is really fantastic, there's a lot of instrumental interplay I can't hear on the US copy.

On the turntable right now, Richard Thompson, Henry the Human Fly. Not the Island original, but the Carthage from the 80s that is quite respectable. It has incredible bass, and some his best songwriting - he really had talent to burn as a young man. Not that he doesn't know, but it's a lot more mannered.

Three of my favorites. I presume you have The Compleat Dancing Master as well?

Might I recommend this really wonderful recording to you...

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GHOSTS
English Acoustic Collective

R.U.F

I'm a Kate Rusby fan myself.
My Sheltie likes her too....but then he's biased!

Steve

October 27-28, 2007 Richmond, VA

http://www.richmondceltic.com/site.asp

13th Richmond Highland Games and Celtic Festival -
Live music, good food, and large men tossing heavy things (!).

Why listen to records and CDs when you can hear real pipers in person!

On a personal aside -
currently playing Shooglenifty - Venus in Tweed

Simon Finn - Pass the Distance, 1970

Luka Bloom ~ Turf

Mainstream tonight

Richard Thompson, "The Old Kit Bag

pmsummer - The Compleat Dancing Master is Hutching's masterpiece, along with Morris On. I even like the readings, and the sound is great on the Carthage reissue. He does tend to feature the bass in the mix, but that is OK on a dance record.

Andyman - The Old Kit Bag is the only recent Thompson LP I have a hard time getting into. Many other fans really like it, but I'd rather play Mock Tudor and Front Parlor Ballads.

Up tonight, a real classic, Shirley and Dolly Collins 'Adieu to Old England' on Topic. This is Shirley's last recorded performance before she retired, with her sister Dolly on flute organ. It also features the great classical musician Phil Pickett on shawm, curtal, recorder and cornett, as well as several other well-known players. All traditional material, except for one tune by, er, Richard Thompson.

It also features the great classical musician Phil Pickett on shawm, curtal, recorder and cornett...

...who was also a member of The Albion Country Band (and, along with that RT feller, put out that wonderful The Bones of All Men recording).

Come over anytime for a pint! :thmbsp:

How about some William Irish Myst on the Mountain (http://www.shamrockstudios.com/pages/merchandise/cd1.htm).

Great idea for a thread. :yes:

I haven't been on here in over two months.....pinched nerve in my neck and then a painful spell with two herniated disks in my lower back. Even getting downstairs to play some music and get on the computer has been a chore , but things are getting better.
What better way to celebrate then to open a copy of Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention on U.K Island which was my second copy and never played before. It has been on the shelf since 1970 and now is a good time to break it out.

So it is an original pink Island in NM?

I shudder to think how much it would be worth on today's market......

Yes it is. Last night was the first time it was ever played. The cover has been in plastic baggy type thing since new. My other copy is a pink Island also , nice condition and well cared for but played " a million times"
I was a "import" collector back in the day.

Soon to play....Tim Hart/Maddy Prior -Summer Solstice

I wondered where you were, Cantabury Guy, and am sorry to read about your painful health issues. Liege & Lief is one of my all-time favorites, but don't you need to save the Hart/Prior till next June and find some for the equinox this weekend?

Seriously, glad you are able to enjoy some music again and I hope it helps you heal.

I wondered where you were, Cantabury Guy, and am sorry to read about your painful health issues. Liege & Lief is one of my all-time favorites, but don't you need to save the Hart/Prior till next June and find some for the equinox this weekend?

Seriously, glad you are able to enjoy some music again and I hope it helps you heal.

Thanks and I'm doing quite well right now. I did realize I was mixing my seasons and should have covered all my bases with the next selection

Steve Ashley-Stroll On

Liege & Lief is an excellent album, especially on vinyl.
Oh, and welcome back Mr Cantarbury and enjoy this thread, it seems made for you. :thmbsp: [Glad to hear that you're feeling better, too]

In honor of Cantarbury Guy's return to the forum:

John Timpany and Audrey Smith - Come All You Tender-Hearted Christians, 1973

[Westwood Recordings - WRS031]

In honor of Cantarbury Guy's return to the forum:

John Timpany and Audrey Smith - Come All You Tender-Hearted Christians, 1973

[Westwood Recordings - WRS031]

Thanks guys for the kind wishes. We are moving over to prog for the afternoon....

Dr. Strangely Strange - Kip OF The Serenes, 1969 [Island ILPS 9106]

Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, 1974

Continuing in the dance music vein, The Cock and Bull Band, All Buttoned Up, UK Topic 12TS412.

Four guys play traditional-type dances on very grungy drone instruments like crumhorn, French bagpipes, Raschepfeife - even their Anglo-Concertina sounds like it has multiple leaks. Great percussion, too, and the recording is audiophile-grade.

It's the only Topic I've ever seen with a custom label; it has some of of the graphics from the front of the cover.

Mr. Fox/ST

Good band from 1970. Male/female vocals with yet again a different approach than Fairport or Steeleye Span to electric British folk.

Stormclouds - Nightmares In The Sky, 1996

Funny, Cantabury, I was just thinking of playing that. The grunginess of the Cock and Bull Band LP got me thinking of them. If there was ever a pair that had a hard time hitting a note square in the middle, it was the Peggs. Or course, the rest of the musicians in the group could play at a decent skill level.

OK, I'm playing it now, just a side. I don't have the originals, only the two-LP reissue set.

Of course, genuine folk as sung by actual traditional performers is the ultimate in hit-or-miss playing. I have an LP on Topic called English Country Music that features some of the last amateur pub players. They were pretty old in 1962, when this LP was recorded, so they reflect the style of a village pub country dance band in the 20s or 30s. Not the kind of folk Cecil Sharpe was looking for, but the ancestor of many of these 70s hippie groups.

Just read this thread. GREAT. I went to thr Cropready fest earlyer this summer and the origanal lineup not counting Sandy Denny of couse played Li ge and Lief. It was SUPERB.

Funny, Cantabury, I was just thinking of playing that. The grunginess of the Cock and Bull Band LP got me thinking of them. If there was ever a pair that had a hard time hitting a note square in the middle, it was the Peggs. Or course, the rest of the musicians in the group could play at a decent skill level.

OK, I'm playing it now, just a side. I don't have the originals, only the two-LP reissue set.

Of course, genuine folk as sung by actual traditional performers is the ultimate in hit-or-miss playing. I have an LP on Topic called English Country Music that features some of the last amateur pub players. They were pretty old in 1962, when this LP was recorded, so they reflect the style of a village pub country dance band in the 20s or 30s. Not the kind of folk Cecil Sharpe was looking for, but the ancestor of many of these 70s hippie groups.
Yes , Mr Fox was quite erratic. Im fortunate to have both of their releases from back in the day. Bob Pegg put out a few solos which I would call scholarly and he became quite an authority and educator on that genre.

Another interesting group was Vulcans Hammer. The original album was very limited private release in the early 70's. The Cd release(now deleated) show Steeleye with Martin Carthy influence and they were not the tightest band but had the spirit and are quite listenable and you could imagine seeing the in a small folk club.

Just read this thread. GREAT. I went to thr Cropready fest earlyer this summer and the origanal lineup not counting Sandy Denny of couse played Li ge and Lief. It was SUPERB.

That is something I always wanted to do. I alway s buy the recording and available videos. BTW did you know that Liege & Lief has sold a million coppies in England. It took 36yrs. though.

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THE LARK DESCENDING
Chris Wood

RUF Records

That is something I always wanted to do. I alway s buy the recording and available videos. BTW did you know that Liege & Lief has sold a million coppies in England. It took 36yrs. though.

I have always thought that Full House was better. If they had included 'Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman', there wouldn't be any doubt.

I have always thought that Full House was better. If they had included 'Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman', there wouldn't be any doubt.

Heretic.



;)

A good read about the thread's topic. The Imagined Village (http://www.imaginedvillage.com/school_room/Not_Icons_but_Jewels:_Music_and_Loss_In_England).

[QUOTE=vinyl1;1363120]I have always thought that Full House was better. If they had included 'Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman', there wouldn't be any doubt.

I confess , I too am a heretic. In a way it is like having two children that you love and how can you choose between them. Thirty years ago I made a cassette of my perfect Full House and added Poor Will...... and I also added "Now Be Thankful". I still have a UK Island issue of Full House which has never been played and one of these days record will record it onto a Cd with the previously mentioned songs for the perfect Full House.

BTW have you ever seen the live footage of Fairport singing Now Be Thankful. Great stuff.

Tempest - The Double-Cross

Okay, so they're from the Bay area but these guys are a modern day Richard Thompson era Fairport Convention.

The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, 1968

Nightnoise --- A Different Shore

I think this one qualifies for this thread.

Amazing Blondel-Fantasia Lindum

I have always thought that Full House was better.

Matty Groves and Tam Lin... I rest my case.

Nightnoise --- A Different Shore

I think this one qualifies for this thread.

I was looking for some spelling help, and read this... neither of which I knew.

Johnny Cunningham died on December 15, 2003, from a heart attack. He was 46 years old. Mícheál Ó Domhnaill died from a fall in July 2006 at his home in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 54.

Matty Groves and Tam Lin... I rest my case.

Unfortunately, I find Matty Groves annoying.

Tam Lin, however, is great. Have you ever heard some of the original versions of field recordings? It is amazing what they did with that song.

I have a version collected in 1956 by scholars at the University of Edinburgh. It is sung by Jeanne Johnston, a Scottish traveller woman. They had to wait until she got out of gaol to record it, too.

Her singing is probably pretty similar to what you might have heard in the 17th or 18th century.

Her singing is probably pretty similar to what you might have heard in the 17th or 18th century.

i was listening to a Jamaican-flavored hip-hop version just last week. Really.

Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come, 1971

Reissue, Mystic?

Or one of those 150 GBP specials from eBay?

John Renbourn-The Lady And The Unicorn

Dr. Strangely Strange-Halcyon Days

Does this belong here? Where do these guys belong..not named stangely strange for nothing. Not the great unreleased third album or even a quirky live BBC effort but some odd pieces left in the can from their "heyday". Has three new songs done in the Kip At The Serenes style. For completists only which is the group I fit , so I listen.

Dr. Strangely Strange-Halcyon Days

Does this belong here? ...


I vote "yes".

Reissue, Mystic?

Or one of those 150 GBP specials from eBay?

Actually I was listening to the original UK issue vinyl LP (CBS 64612) version on a CD I made, content ripped from the LP. Definitely loses a lot of the holographic quality of the vinyl, but on the plus side I'm not worried about scratching a $200-300 record.

Shelagh McDonald - Shelagh McDonald Album, 1970

Some fun stuff from the Battlefield Band on Temple, a side each from Home Ground and On the Rise.

On the Rise has their fabulous version of 'Bad Moon Rising', while the live album has 'Land of 1000 Dances', the, er, Scottish version.

One of the dances is 'Donald, Where's Your Trousers' - I don't know if this refers to the wearing of the kilt, or the drinking customs in Aberdeen.

String Driven Thing - The Machine That Cried, 1973

Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick-Byker Hill

Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick-Byker Hill

BTW...PMSummer check out cut 3 ,side 2. "Domeama". I knew the was a word "doomy". Well, almost.

Howard

Nic Jones - Ballads and Songs, 1970

The Chieftans - Tears of Stone

Hows about Steve McDonald-
Sons of Somerled &
Highland Farwell....:yes:

Nic Jones - Ballads and Songs, 1970

:yes:

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THE CRIES OF LONDON
Gibbons, Cobbold, Weelkes, Dering, East, Ravenscroft, various texts
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, dir.
Fretwork

Harmonia Mundi

Nic Jones - Ballads and Songs, 1970

You must have quite a collection.

I have all the Nic Jones LPs, but only some are originals. My Ballads and Songs is a Highway reissue, and my Noah's Ark Trap is a US pressing.

On the other hand, my 'Nic Jones S/T' is an autographed original.

Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick-Prince Heathen

Nic Jones, Penguin Eggs, on UK Topic.

It is his greatest LP, and still in print on CD. Cut down in his prime.....poor Nic.

Nic Jones, Penguin Eggs, on UK Topic.

It is his greatest LP, and still in print on CD. Cut down in his prime.....poor Nic.

I read that he actually has a new CD in production right now.

I dunno, guys, I go away for three days and the thread ends up on page 2.

But here's one for you fans of Northumbrian piping:

http://home.earthlink.net/~vinyl1/cut2.jpg

Although only two are shown fitted up, all five play Northumbian piipes - but not all at once. I guess that might be too much, or maybe not.

It's the Cut and Dry Band, 'Cut and Dry #2', UK Topic 12TS423.

Hark! The Village Wait- Steeleye Span (UK RCA)

Dual female leads Gay Wood /Maddy Prior

I had tried to relate my evening sitting at the same table as Heather Wood who I had confused with Gay Wood two years ago at a Strawbs/Fairport show in Alexandria Va, two years ago but my log in keeps timing out and I don't know how to fix that so Ill try again one day .

Battlefield Band - There's a Buzz

US reissue, unfortunately. I don't seemed to have played this one for a few years.

I was quite startled to hear Northumbrian pipes on one track, so I looked at the insert, and sure enough Ged Foley played them. I don't think he was in the lineup for very long, just a couple of LPs.

Tannahill Weavers, Land of Light, is a fav of mine and the sound quality is excellent!

Tickawinda - Rosemary Lane, 1975

Tickawinda - Rosemary Lane, 1975

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #603,477 in Music

I knew this wasn't exactly the world's most popular type of music, but really.....

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #603,477 in Music

I knew this wasn't exactly the world's most popular type of music, but really.....

Amazon-schmamazon. I shudder to think what fine example of musicianship occupies Amazon.com Sales Rank #1. :D

You got a point.

Now for one that probably would rank dead last: Richard Butler, The Perfect Triangle, on UK Saydisc SDL 345. Butler is a Northumbrian piper, and that's what this LP is, solo Northumbrian piping.

Both the recording and the playing is astoudingly good.

Now for one that probably would rank dead last: Richard Butler, The Perfect Triangle, on UK Saydisc SDL 345. Butler is a Northumbrian piper, and that's what this LP is, solo Northumbrian piping...

An excellent choice, and I'll bet it's a whole lot more interesting than what currently occupies Amazon.com Sales Rank #1! :yes:

Steeleye Span-Ten Man Mop..............

Anybody here ever heard of Trees who were a 70s English folk band. Well Iv just had an email telling me that they have just reformed! Hope so there still one of my favourite bands allthough they only made 2 LPs.

Both are fine albums. My favorite of those second tier bands was Spirogyra.
Speaking of second tier bands I may pull out some JSD Band tonight or tomorrow.

JSD? new one on me

Scottish band who played a lot in England 1969-1973. A favorite of John Peel. Made three lps.Country Of The Blind
JSD Band
Travelling Days

All guys,no sweet female singer. Kind of like Lindisfarne or a folky Faces.
Did alot of Trad .arr things as well as original material. Actually saw them in a club in Greenwich Village circa 1973. Must of been less than ten people there but the guys were loud and alot of fun. They may have reformed in the last few years too. I will have to check.

PM me and I could enable you to check them out.

Howard

One question from someone genuinely curious:

How come the Chieftans haven't been mentioned?

While I like music from the isles, I have yet to enjoy most of the acts mentioned here, so please take it from that perspective.

Are the C's too commercial? Or just taken for granted as being great? I could see that many could think of them as fulfilling the clichees on many tunes (drinking, carousing...) but...well, you tell me..:scratch2:

For your approval, a singer (Scottish-born, later living in Aus.): Eric Bogle.

He wrote "The Green Fields of France", also "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
To this day I cannot get through 'Fields of France' without crying, much the same with 'Matilda'.

Anyone else like him?

Best,
C.

One question from someone genuinely curious:

How come the Chieftans haven't been mentioned?

While I like music from the isles, I have yet to enjoy most of the acts mentioned here, so please take it from that perspective.

Are the C's too commercial? Or just taken for granted as being great? I could see that many could think of them as fulfilling the clichees on many tunes (drinking, carousing...) but...well, you tell me..:scratch2:

For your approval, a singer (Scottish-born, later living in Aus.): Eric Bogle.

He wrote "The Green Fields of France", also "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
To this day I cannot get through 'Fields of France' without crying, much the same with 'Matilda'.
C.

Well,that's kind of how it is with the Chieftans. They are the older generation, and they are 'folky' rather than folk. Think of serious young college boys in 1964, wearing matching sweaters and singing folk songs that they learned off Folkways LPs. Well, not that bad, but you get the idea. At least they are skilled instrumentalists

As for Bogle, there is a fabulous version of "Waltzing Matilda" sung by June Tabor on 'Airs and Graces'. She also does 'No Man's Land' and 'Flowers of the Forest' on 'Ashes and Diamonds'. They are both great albums, maybe you should try them. Nic Jones plays fiddle on some tracks on both LPs.

JSD? new one on me

Yeah, I thought I knew a lot, but now I see I have a ways to go.

Shelagh McDonald - Shelagh McDonald Album, 1970

Hi Mystic,

I found a copy of a Lossless shelag recording at demonoid. The notes on the upload is pasted below.. it says that the singer vanished sometime in 1971.. never to appear again. Her music was re-released but her royalties remain uncollected."

Foo

------------------------

"SHELAGH McDONALD -
Never said she was coming back - Live London Feb 1971

INTRODUCTION:
"This womans voice is to die for.
Think Nick Drake mixed with Sandy Denny and you are getting close to the
evocative delivery and melancholic tinge to Shelagh McDonalds voice."

"Simply, she is THE great English voice of the period - if she'd fronted a "name" band
like Fairport or Steeleye Span, her music would be available today on a variety of reissued collections."

McDonald came to London from Edinburgh in the 1960s and was feted by Melody Maker, NME and ZigZag.
She was a composer with promise, a voice blending the melancholy of Sandy Denny and the
birdsong of Joan Baez, and a beauty who didn't capitalise on her looks. Signed to
Sandy Roberton's B&C Records, she didn't move many units with her first outing, but a second album
was to prove a dramatic leap forward. However, within months of the release of Stargazer, a
mini-masterpiece from 1971, she was nowhere to be found, and her phone had been disconnected.
On the cusp of fame and fortune, talented and critically acclaimed
songwriter Shelagh McDonald disappeared.
Now her music is back in print, but the royalties remain uncollected,
and her whereabouts are a mystery.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1296236/20452758/

Hark! The Village Wait- Steeleye Span (UK RCA)

Dual female leads Gay Wood /Maddy Prior .

Notes from Demonoid about the album.

"Steeleye Span's debut album, 1970's HARK! THE VILLAGE WAIT--a "wait" being a medieval village band--is a landmark of British folk-rock, a folk supergroup equivalent to the legendary Masked Marauders. Ashley Hutchings formed Steeleye Span after he left Fairport Convention, following disagreements with Sandy Denny over the latter band's direction, Martin Carthy naming it in homage to an obscure folk tune called "Horkstow Grange." This lineup also includes singers Tim Hart and Maddy Prior--who would become the band's core--along with Fairport drummer Dave Mattacks and the highly regarded husband and wife team of Gay and Terry Woods.
Whether newly written, as with the Morris-style "A Calling-On Song," or familiar ballads, the songs are uniformly excellent, as are the performances. This lineup actually disbanded immediately upon completing the album and never performed live, but HARK! THE VILLAGE WAIT is regardless one of the finest British folk-rock albums ever."(cduniverse)

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1300031/3408793/

JSD Band-S/T

JSD Band -Traveling Days

Just finished S/T and it was pretty good . Probably haven't played it since 1973. Sort of like early Horslips/Angel Delight era Fairport

Just finished Traveling Days and also good. I guess I haven't played since 1973 also. Too good a band to totally forget. The info I posted last night was off my head and upon checking was correct. It appears that the guys individually played on Ziggy era Bowie recordings. Can't verify as the only Bowie I own is Bowi by Nick Lowe.

Anne Briggs - Sing A Song For You, 1973

Trader Horne - Morning Way, 1970

I remember at least one of the Shelagh McDonald releases but they passed me by. Glad to hear the positives and will order a copy off the Bay. Thanks guys for the info.

while moving around the lossless forums, I found the following post on Shelagh. It seems that Shelag surfaced briefly in 1995.

MORE SHELAGH NEWS:
I found this message on Keith Christmas messageboard:
"Posted on 2005-11-14 at 07:57:38 by Keith Christmas
For anyone interested, Shelagh MacDonald walked into the office of the Scottish office of the Daily Mail last week after a lady called Grace McAskill did a piece on her for the Magazine section.
I spoke to Shelagh for a few minutes but I was in the middle of teaching Year 11 ICT and couldn't say much.
She has since disappeared again."

Why don´t you check out Keith´s pages: http://www.kcblues.co.uk/
A lot of information and fantastic music. And a chance to leave a message and buy some nice CD´s...

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=68567

Gilgamesh - Arriving Twice, 1973-1975

Gilgamesh - Arriving Twice, 1973-1975

Can't get this one by me. Please relocate to prog. Great stuff though.

Steeleye Span - The Lark In The Morning

Here's another marginal one:

June Tabor and the Oyster Band - Freedom and Rain

They rock hard in trad tunes - fantastic bass on the vinyl version. A bit revsionist, but one I really like.

Quiet Sun - Mainstream, 1975

Can't get this one by me. Please relocate to prog. Great stuff though.

Canterbury prog jazz fusion... :D

Quiet Sun - Mainstream, 1975

OK, if you are going to blatantly cross thread boundaries I will submit Lal and Mike Waterson-Bright Phoebus to the prog thread.

Tickell: Hareshaw Burn
Kathryn Tickell
Taken from the album Instrumental
Park Records PRKCD 92

Trad: Bold Doherty
Mary Ann Carolan
Taken from the album Voice of the People Vol. 13
Topic TSCD 663

Graham: Angi
Davy Graham, guitar
Taken from the compilation The Folk Collection
Topic TSCD 707/8

Trad arr. Stout: Auld Swaara
Chris Stout
Taken from the album Devil's Advocate
Greentrax CDTRAX305


Wood: Walk This World
Chris Wood
Taken from the album The Lark Descending
Ruf Records RUFCD10

COB-Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart (1972)

Anyone ever hear this one. COB stands for Clive's Original Band. Clive being Clive Palmer, an original ISB member. Melancholy in the Richard Thompson vein. Title was a turn off but the music is well worth it.

OK, if you are going to blatantly cross thread boundaries I will submit Lal and Mike Waterson-Bright Phoebus to the prog thread.

:thmbsp:

COB-Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart (1972)

Anyone ever hear this one. COB stands for Clive's Original Band. Clive being Clive Palmer, an original ISB member. Melancholy in the Richard Thompson vein. Title was a turn off but the music is well worth it.

I have NEVER heard of that recording, but I'd LOVE to hear it (or parts of it).

Eliza Carthy - Heat Light @ Sound
check it out a fantastic cd. ( another signed cd)

Swarbrick-S/T

Waterfall - The Flight of the Day, 1977

Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice, 1972

I never miss this programme. Im Steve who she mentoins.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shropshire.shtml

Sorry wrong link its Sunday night folk Genevieve Tudor listen again

Jamie McMenemy, Road to Kerrigouarch. Dutch Stoof MU 7482.

Jamie was in the Battlefield Band for a few years, then split for the continent. This LP was recorded at the Farmsound Studio in Hollland - sounds like a good place for folk. Brian McNeil came over from Scotland to produce and play on a couple of tracks.

Recommended if you can find a copy.

Martin Carthy - Waiting For Angels, 2004

J>S>D Band- Country Of The Blind (1971 maroon Regal Zonophone)

The first of their three albums and more acoustic. A nice blend of Trad. arr, originals, Dylan and Mike Heron. I bought this in the early eighties as my twelve year sojourn in British folk was waning. As it was not a land mark recording it was probably played once or twice and filed away. It is back and quite enjoyable. I don't think it ever came out on Cd.

would Rebecca Pidgeon's music belong in this thread?

would Rebecca Pidgeon's music belong in this thread?

I must confess, I don't know her work but will try to sample some.

Fairport Convention- Tape made from the BBC of Liege & Lief done by original group (less Sandy) at this years Cropredy Festival

would Rebecca Pidgeon's music belong in this thread?


I have been wanting to hear some of her work in spite of the Hollywood & Mamet connection. Her musical offerings are in the Celtic vein, I believe?

Anyway, here's something that does belong in this thread and I have fellow AKer Cantarbury Guy to thank for it:


Jan Dukes De Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft, 1971 [lots more proggy than expected...a good thing IMO :thmbsp:]

I was quite taken by Rebecca's Chesky label cover of Ben e. King's "spanish harlem" included in her Raven Album. This song was included in the Chesky Ultimate Demonstration Disk.

However, the album that seems most interesting for this thread is Four Marys (Chesky Records JD165) .
Unfortunately, I haven't listened to this album yet.

http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/reviews/rpidgeon.htm

"Four Marys is a significant development from Rebecca Pidgeon's first album with a change in musical direction for the tracks included. Focused entirely on traditional Celtic music, the album includes fourteen tracks deeply rooted in Scottish tradition in their storytelling approach. Like some of Chesky's other albums, the recording was done St Peters Church and the ambiance has been perfectly captured with Chesky's 96-khz/24-bit technology and minimal miking techniques.

Although first and foremost a vocal album, some of Celtic music's finest musicians were recruited to provide backing instrumentals. Johnnie Cunningham plays fiddle and mandolin while Jerry O'Sullivan plays Uillean pipes. The vocals are as much Rebecca Pidgeon as they are on The Raven however the songs are sung in a mix of Gaelic and English and the instrumentals are by and large mixed further back in almost all of the tracks. The tracks are—by design—exclusively Celtic folk oriented with flute, strings and pipes establishing the overall ambiance of the album."

Dr Strangely Strange - Halcyon Days, 1969

Another newly received gem. I am liking this a lot.

June Tabor - Aqaba.

Not actually very folky, kind of like Sandy Denny in her last year.

Alan Stivell - Reflets, 1970

Richard and Linda Thompson - First Light.

I hadn't listened to this for a while, and the songs sound strangely unfamiliar, except for 'Pavanne'. I frequently listen to the June Tabor version of that on CD - in my car, of course.

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GHOSTS
English Acoustic Collective

R.U.F

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MARY'S MUSIC
Songs and Dances from the time of Mary Queen of Scots
Scottish Early Music Consort
Warwick Edwards, dir.

Chandos

Old Blind Dogs - Live.

A CD of wonderful live performances in rather poor sound. It doesn't sound so bad in the car, which is where I play CDs. The fiddling on 'McPherson's Rant' is something else.

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PLEASE TO SEE THE KING
Steeleye Span

Shanachie (via Topic)

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PLEASE TO SEE THE KING
Steeleye Span

Shanachie (via Topic)

I've never seen that cover before. How about a discussion on the best Steeleye Span album? I vote for Please To See The King. I did stop following them after Below The Salt.
I did see Maddy Prior solo in Annapolis Md about two years ago and she was still great.

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COB
Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart

Kentish Fellow



One part Third Ear Band, one part Incredible String Band, one part Syd Barrett, with a dash of John Renbourn.



(Clive's Original Band: on Radioactive.)
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COB
Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart

Kentish Fellow



One part Third Ear Band, one part Incredible String Band, one part Syd Barrett, with a dash of John Renbourn.



(Clive's Original Band: on Radioactive.)
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Sounds like a winner!

I vote for Please To See The King.

I used to play that during intermissions at the Dobie Screens in Austin (Ye Olden College Days). Drove the UT students into the lobby in droves to BUY MORE POPCORN. It was a win-win situation... I got to listen to what I liked, and my employer made more money. :yes:

Ten Man Mop probably remains my fav, although PTSTK is right there, and Parcel of Rouges is just stunningly wonderful/different. Damn the English! ;)

Sounds like a winner!

Indeed it does! Thanks!

I wonder if you created any Steeleye fans at the Dobie Screens ? Can only hope so.

I wonder if you created any Steeleye fans at the Dobie Screens ? Can only hope so.

I probably created just as many Steeleye Span fans as I did Ornette Coleman fans.

I wasn't much of an evangelist 35 years ago.

Trees - Garden of Jane Delawney, 1970

Sol Invictus - The Devil's Steed, 2004

The Chieftains-The Wide World Over Celebration

The Tannahill Weaver's, The Old Lady's Dance, UK Plant Life LP.

I didn't think this would be good, but it was. I've only played it once or twice since I got it a couple of years ago.

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THE IMAGINED VILLAGE
Various Artists

Realworld

"The Imagined Village is a huge Folk production which has been put together over the last four years by Simon Emmerson. Folk music is often referred to as the people’s music but is sometimes perceived to belong to some people more than others. The Imagined Village takes the English songbook and opens it wider than before, inviting everyone to take up the music as his or hers. Alongside Sheila Chandra and Benjamin Zephaniah appear Paul Weller, Billy Bragg and Martin and Eliza Carthy whilst Johnny Kalsi’s Dhol drums and Shema Mukherjee’s Sitar accompany Chris Wood and the Young Copper Family and Tunng take up the baton for a new generation."

Steely Span-The Lark In The Morning

Alan Stivell - E Langonned, 1974

Anne Briggs-The Time Has Come

Anne Briggs-The Time Has Come

You, too?

I'm beginning to think I'm the only guy here without one of these 150 GBP collectible LPs.

I suppose you have the first one on Topic, too.....

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GHOSTS
English Acoustic Collective

R.U.F

You, too?

I'm beginning to think I'm the only guy here without one of these 150 GBP collectible LPs.

I suppose you have the first one on Topic, too.....

Not this time! Free download from the blog Time Has Told Me. Check it out.

Dr. Strangely Strange- 1. Live At Cousins 1970
2. Live at the BBC

If Halycon Days was for thoses who wish to complete their collection these two boot legs are for the anal. Rather sloppy performances and quality of the recording is beyond poor. But they are boot legs off the net and I made a copy and put them in the archives.
I was thinking how good the Doctors two LPs were and Joe Boyd is a master.

Tannahill Weavers, Cullen Bay.

Fairly normal stuff, very warped LP.

Steeleye Span- Parcel Of Rogues

Steeleye Span- Below The Salt

Maddy Prior and Tim Hart - Summer Solstice, 1972

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THE LARK DESCENDING
Chris Wood

R.U.F Records

Richard and Linda Thompson
Shoot Out The Lights

Richard and Linda Thompson
Shoot Out The Lights

Anyone ever hear the original version of SOTL which was produced by Jerry Rafferty? I had been trying to download it off a blog but it will not open.

For Halloween

Steeleye Span- Alison Gross( the ugliest witch of the north country) from Parcel of Rogues


FYI my first wife's name was Alison...well if it fits go with it.

For Halloween

Steeleye Span- Alison Gross( the ugliest witch of the north country) from Parcel of Rogues


FYI my first wife's name was Alison...well if it fits go with it.

Well, for your sake, let's hope your first wife doesn't read this forum, or there might be a "reverse" version of that song played out, with you being the changeling.

;)

I had been trying to download it off a blog but it will not open.

And, ummm, that site would be...?

And, ummm, that site would be...?

www.time-has-told-me.blogspot.com

go to artists. If you haven't seen this site before , you will enjoy it.

Trees
On The Shore

A great site http://www.folkradio.co.uk/index.php :music:

Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention

Need to hear Tam Lin for Halloween.

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THE MYSTERIES:
Nativity/Passion/Doomsday
Home Service

Fledg'ling

"Best Of Clannad" in the CD deck in the car right now....happy Samhain

Right now I have on the turntable a purchase from the WFMU show, the John Renbourn 'Lady and the Unicorn' on original purple and white Transatlantic.

It was not too pricey, because it has a slight bowl warp. The clamp on my Basis 2001 can take that right out, and in any case it is amazing what a Graham can track.

The sound is absolutely stunning, although I have not got my primary cartridge in the system right now, and I'm using my backup Denon 103. The spatial perspective on the glockenspiel is quite something - you can clearly hear which end is nearer to the microphone, and which way it was pointed.

The Chieftains – The Long Black Veil, 1995 [MFSL Gold]

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THE COMPLEAT DANCING MASTER
John Kirkpatrick & Ashley Hutchings

Carthage

THE COMPLEAT DANCING MASTER
John Kirkpatrick & Ashley Hutchings

Carthage

I like the readings, too. The segment from Histriomastix shows what great rhetoriticians the Puritan preachers were, although they took the position contrary to what is espoused here.

rhetoriticians

I think you win a prize for being the first AK'er to use this word in a post! ;)

Agreed, the readings (both in text and delivery) are remarkable.

I think you win a prize for being the first AK'er to use this word in a post! ;)

Agreed, the readings (both in text and delivery) are remarkable.

I didn't even mention his use of hyphallage, polyptoton, and hyperbaton.

I didn't even mention his use of hyphallage, polyptoton, and hyperbaton.

I think we have medications for those conditions nowadays.

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INDUSTRY
Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson

Hannibal

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WORLD'S BLISS
Medieval Songs of Love and Death
John Fleagle

Archetype via Magnatunes

Stockton's Wing, Take One, Revolving Records REVL 2.

No indication of date or country of origin, but not bad.

Shirley and Dolly Collins, Anthems in Eden.

Yes, an original UK Harvest in beautiful condition - just acquired on Friday.

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I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT
Richard & Linda Thompson

Island

On June 29, 2008 the original Pentangle, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox will reunite for one night at the Royal Festival Hall in London. That date marks the 40th anniversary of the recording of the live disc on the double albumSweet Child.

Road trip anyone?

Pentangle
Pentagling

On lp of course:music:

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WELCOME TO HELL
The John Kirkpatrick Band

Fledg'ling

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GAELIC PSALMS FROM LEWIS
Scottish Traditional Series 6
Murdina MacDonald, Murdo MacLeod, Alasdair Graham, and congregations

Greentrax

Martin Carthy, Sweet Wivelsfield, original UK Deram LP.

Rather purist album, no other musicians, traditional material with guitar and unaccompanied.

Morris On, reissue on Carthage.

Now this is one of the all-time classics, and an audiophile-grade LP as well.

Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy- No Songs(45RPM Ep Fontana)

Not an original. Just downloaded from That Blog. Rare stuff and some may never have appeared elsewhere. In the vein of RT's Strict Tempo! LP.

June Tabor-Abyssinians

Track 4 She Moves Among Men. Another Classic

June Tabor-Abyssinians

Track 4 She Moves Among Men. Another Classic

Although I had not read your post, I happened to play that myself today.

It is a bit removed from the traditional folk style, but that's what everyone is doing nowadays. I also played Clannad's Magic Ring, same sort of deal. That's about as far as I care to go with them.

Ashley Hutchings - Rattlebone and Ploughjack, 1976

Ashley Hutchings - Rattlebone and Ploughjack, 1976


I don't know if you noticed, Mystic, but that was the thread starter, the second LP mentioned in the first post.

It is a marvelous work of reconstuction, and I really like the readings. Hutchings had a knack for digging out appropriate texts to put around the music.

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THE BONES OF ALL MEN
Mr. Philip Pickett & Mr. Richard Thompson
Fairport Rhythm Section

Hannibal

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Woooooo Cool!

Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs, 1972

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SKETCHES
Bert Jansch

Temple Records

Weekly on my playlist is the "Thistle and Shamrock" show on NPR.
:smoke::smoke::smoke:

Stone Angel-S/T (1975)

New one to me. Quite good...sounds like Spirogyra,Tree,Steeleye. Not a bad place to be.

Trees-Live BBC

Finally time to post!

Vinyl1, like your taste in music. Mine too for a while.

Today: Fairport "Liege & Lief" plus "expletive delighted!"

Runrig, "In Search Of Angels"

and finally, the song, "Mother's Lament" from Cream Disraeli Gears.

Reaching into the rack at random, I pulled out The Watersons, For Pence and Spicy Ale.

I don't have any recollection of purchasing this, but it's a very clean UK Topic with the blue/ellipse label. The music might be a little purist for some, but it definitely grows on one.

The New High Level Ranters, Topic 12TS425. I just had to hear 'The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade', it was running through my head. Too bad the lyrics aren't available online, it's quite an amusing song.

Oliver Chaplin - Standing Stone, 1974

John Renbourn --- Traveller's Prayer

The list geats better and better every post. May it stay alive for ever.

The Guvnores Big Birthbay Bash. - Live In Concert

Ashley Hutchings

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SHIP OF FOOLS
John Renbourn Group

Flying Fish

FAREWELL MY FRIENDS
Cath and Phil Tyler

No-Fi

The list geats better and better every post. May it stay alive for ever.

The Guvnores Big Birthbay Bash. - Live In Concert

Ashley Hutchings

As the originator of this thread, I thank you.

You will note that the very first post started out with two Ashley Hutchings LPs - a very good way to start.

I admit, I am amazed at the amount of interest and the number of users here who play these LPs and CDs.

SHIP OF FOOLS
John Renbourn Group

Flying Fish

I do like some of the later John Renbourn. Ship of Fools is quite good, but my absolute favorite is The Enchanted Garden. Well worth getting, if anyone does not have it.

I do like some of the later John Renbourn. Ship of Fools is quite good, but my absolute favorite is The Enchanted Garden. Well worth getting, if anyone does not have it.

I do not have either of those and will have to add them to my wish list. I really like what I've heard by Renbourn.

I saw Renbourn and Jackie Mcshay last year live. A night to remember

I saw Renbourn and Jackie Mcshay last year live. A night to remember

I'd love to see any of the artists from Fairport, Pentangle, Steeleye come through here. I'd be there.

http://www.fairportconvention.co.uk/

Richard and Linda Thompson-Live In London 1972(Boot)

Richard and Linda Thompson- Rafferty's Folley( the first version of Shoot Out The Lights produced by Rafferty. Thompsons were not pleased and was redone with Joe Boyd). As its a boot not sure if this was a final version. Not bad, but not the tour de force of the official SOTL.

The Cambridge Buskers, A Little Street Music.

Pentangle --- Early Classics

Pentagle - Pentangling LP

What? An Irish folk music thread, and No Shane McGowan, with or without the Pouges?
Or maybe, The Bluebells?

A few more for today:

The Cobbler’s Awl, The Cobbler’s Awl

The Compleat Dancing Master

Excerpts from Electric Muse

Ogden's Nut Gone, (round cover)

and finally: June Tabor, The Silly Sisters

Settled in for some nostalgic listening.

I had fun in the 70s!

Fairpoty Convention
Festival Cropredy 2002

Skip Healy, Empty Pockets.

Meadowlark Records 004.

Not exactly the most important LP ever made, but nice flute and whistle playing of traditional tunes.

No acid/psych folk today. From 1966 The Bird in the Bush(Traditional Erotic Songs)...that is what it says. A.L Lloyd, Anne Briggs, Frankie Armstrong with Dave Swarbtick.

Stanger mixture there:scratch2:
I recon it would still be worth a listen though

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MOUTH MUSIC
Mouth Music

Rykodisc

Nightnoise --- A Different Shore

Nightnoise --- A Different Shore

Good stuff there.

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GHOSTS
English Acoustic Collective

R.U.F

In my mailbox today, Old Blind Dogs, The World's Room.

It's a CD, there are no vinyl LPs at all for the OBDs. Can't argue with the music, though.

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FAIR PLAY
Puck Fair

Lost Lake Arts

Second hour live folk show click listen live

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/local_radio/

June Tabor & Martin Simpson, A Cut Above.

One of her better albums, and the boots she is wearing in the picture on the cover are most impressive.

Bert Jansch - Avocet

The Flying Cloud - the original LP on Adelphi.

They have an excellent version of Jack Orion, in which Jack only hangs his boy servant Tom, and does not kill himself or his lady friend.

Dick Gaughan- "No More Forever"

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TRESPASSER
Chris Wood

R.U.F

Trader Horne - Morning Way, 1970

Stone Angel-S/T

One of my favorites hit the turntable today, Steeleye Span's Commoner's Crown.

Altan - Horse with a Heart.

Not bad, seems like I haven't played this for quite a while.

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ANGEL DELIGHT
Fairport Convention

Island

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PARCEL OF ROGUES
Steeleye Span

Shanachie

PMS your spinning some classic stuff there! :thmbsp:

Old Blind Dogs --- The World's Room

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HAND OF KINDNESS
Richard Thompson

Hannibal

Eliza Carthy - Red

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THE SCRAPE
Mouth Music

Skitteesh

Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, 1974

Shide & Acorn-Under The Tree(1971)

Limited release ...average folk male/female vocal

Today's Feed for the turntable:

Martin Carthy & Dave Swabrick Prince Heathen.

Mistletoe and Wine: A Seasonal Collection by the Mediaeval Baebes

Battlefield Band, The Story So Far.

This is a compilation album from their nearly unobtainable early LPs on a French label.

The Chieftains ~ 8

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A CHRISTMAS CELTIC SOJOURN
Various Artists

Rounder

Amazon: On A Christmas Celtic Sojourn, Brian O'Donovan, the host of the Celtic Sojourn radio show, compiles a collection of songs that mixes the contemplative with more raucous fare, ancient melodies with modern, and the earthy with the ethereal. The musicians come from all corners of the Celtic world, and include the Breton choir Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde, who blend medieval vocal harmonies with modern instruments such as the tin whistle and the guitar; Dordan, the masters of Irish baroque music; and the pan-Celtic band the Boys of the Lough. Also included are English performers Maddy Prior (the lead singer of Steeleye Span) and the family group Waterson:Carthy, who deliver a hearty version of the "The Ditchling Carol." The majority of the tracks feature vocals, but the instrumental selections--particularly fiddler Bonnie Rideout's haunting "Gloomy Winter" and the lovely "Midwinter Waltz" from the Boys of the Lough--do a beautiful job of wordlessly evoking the season. By passing over too-familiar Christmas songs in favor of less-well-known melodies, O'Donovan has come up with that rarest of all holiday treats--a gift that that both surprises and delights. --Michael Simmons

Niamh Parsons - Loosely Conected

The Bothy Band: Live. Irish Mulligan LUN 030.

A fine recording, a bit too closely-miked in places.

Steeleye Span-1970-71 Live at the BBC

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CELTIC CHRISTMAS
Various Artists

Windham Hill

Old Blind Dogs - Four on the Floor.

I don't think they're as good as they used to be. Too many personnel changes, perhaps, or just getting stale. They must be really desperate to start covering Battlefield Band songs!

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CELTIC WANDERERS:
The Pilgrim's Road
Altramar

Dorian