― the finefox, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
It's not widely available, but you can get it here:
http://www.folkmusic.net/
― de, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 30 January 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Sunday, 30 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Sunday, 30 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Otherwise, there's a nice Celtic bent to some Trees stuff - I'm thinking specifically of things like 'Murdoch' with Celia Humphris doing the banshee bit (possibly over-doing it really but somehow the too-muchness only makes me crave it more) and Barry Clark's guitar swooping round the misty cairns much like a rum-addled puffin in his most impossible dreams.
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
The Woods' Band album that is.
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 31 January 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 31 January 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 January 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 31 January 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
not sure about the 'these trails' record though
― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 1 January 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
My husband put the entire Maddy Prior discog on my computer & it always makes me laugh every time I see it on my itunes.
― I X Love (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I revive3d this thread before I noticed the Steeleye Span thread was already on new answers page
― I X Love (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Fairports' BBC sessions box is just great.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Was interesting to see a lot of the material The Dubliners recorded mid 60s turning up in electric versions on Steeleye Span, Fairports etc lps. Wish I could find live audio & video from Ashley Hutchings era SS, & more by him with Fairports. Got the French set with Judy Dyble but apparently it was filmed in colour.
Haven't looked to see if Electric Eden & Seasons They Change have been discussed much yet.
Think I found this site through googling Emanuelle Parrenin whose La Maison Rose I saw in a list of cds on ebay.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 5 February 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
(Swivel-eyed right wing dingbat) Peter Hitchens on "Meet on the Ledge"
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2015/06/old-forgotten-far-off-things.html
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
finally getting into those Shelagh MacDonald records (some of which features Thompson & Mattacks), pretty good post Sandy Denny action
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
this one has Thompson and Mattacks on it, i think... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov6BtkDANb8
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
Don't quite know what's going here but this 1975 country album by professional wrestler, Brian Maxine, has quite the starry line-up.
https://img.discogs.com/6OR-CSRJ4chqUXp4AEv6uot6_B4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4505708-1366802782-2272.jpeg.jpg
https://img.discogs.com/yn90gyWaM5IHMbaaYhe2xChsk0c=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4505708-1493327266-9291.jpeg.jpg
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
... there's lots of clips of Brian wrestling on YouTube but none of his singing.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
whoa, never even heard of this!
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
... oh yes there is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wgtxNZ7mhI
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
... Linda Thompson is certainly enjoying herself.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
ha, just found that too ... that is as energetic (or drunk?) as I've ever seen Linda Thompson
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 November 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
everybody looks pretty toasted, haha
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
You take the girl out of Glasgow...
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
apparently there's another one with swarbrick and pegg. amazing cover. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKFy0YQXkAEV1TF?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 November 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
Is this the first “wrestling album”
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 23 November 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
wow what a find
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 November 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
https://ibb.co/9wGjfLfis the other.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 24 November 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/rbvJLSL/AF97-DF58-1-D56-4-C7-F-A1-DD-34821168-AD2-E.jpg
― Fizzles, Sunday, 24 November 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
^ already posted as the first post in this revive I remember Brian Maxine well from Saturday afternoon wrestling on World of Sport, I even used to go to the wrestling from time to time and I'm fairly sure I saw him in action. Never knew he moonlighted as a singer though.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Sunday, 24 November 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
(xp) on the ball there, Fizzles ;)
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 November 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
Remember when they unmasked Kendo Nagasaki and it was actually Nick Drake?
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
Btw Shirley Crabtree is the my favourite obscure 70s folk singer
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
I'd always hear that Danny Thompson and John Martyn had a stormy relationship and this photo would seem to confirm it.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/eb/cf/c3ebcfcaedd828f97831703afec0a344.jpg
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 November 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
(xp) LOL!
Haha Tom
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
Fyter Layter
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 November 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Still can’t wrap my mind around this latest revive.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 November 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Sunday, 24 November 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
INsect trust are good, bit of jazz in there. Not sure who's got either lp on cd at the moment I have the 1st one on Ascension from about 10 years ago.
Sunbeam records seemed to nearly specialise in folk stuff from the turn of the 60s/70s. Fresh Maggots, Synansthesia,Loudest Whisper, C.O.B. (Clive of the original ISB moved to the South of England and got his own band together), Moonkyte, Bread, Love & Dreams. Jade, Mark Fry, Meic Stevens are all good.
Mr Fox specialised in Northeern English folk I think specifically from Yorkshire. They gave us caroline Pegg who has a solo lp that's quite renowned. & 2 lps of original material.
Dr Strangely Strange are an eccentric bunch from Dublin who put out 2 good lps Kip Of teh Serenes and Heavy petting, the latter of which features some heavy guitar from gary moore. They have a biography that came outover the last year taht I have yet to read.
Strawbs came from an acoustic bluegrassy background and put out a few at least semi classic lps. I'd recommend the 2 that were recorded with Rick Wakeman onboard . the live set A Collection of Curiosities & the Studio From the Witchwood. I think the 1st 2lps and the ones up to around 1973 are quite recommended too but I'm not as familiar with them.The singer's vocals are a bit of an acquired taste though.
Jethro Tull got very folky in the late 70s Their lp Songs From The Wood sounds a lot like what other people were putting out about 69/70 but with synths and things added. I think the lp works very well , have heard teh next lp Heavy Horses is less successful.
I have the Dave Bixby related lp Second coming by Harbinger playing in the otehr room which is a semi acoustic band he put together after recording Ode To Quexalcoatl and retains his christian message alongside an odd Bowie lift.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 24 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Five Rounds LeftCoach Has Told Me
― calstars, Sunday, 24 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
I'd buy "Five Leaves, Rapid" by Nicholas Courtney
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 November 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
Are there any books that describe this late 1960s era of folk/folk-rock/folk-jazz-whatever in Britain? As someone who has discovered Pentangle and Richard Thompson, and will probably move on to Fairport Convention, I’d like to know more about the historical background and how all these musicians came together.
― Melomane, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
Believe they came as demos via Joe Boyd iirc.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Was about to say the same.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
Recommending his book White Bicycles to those who haven't read it. Recommending Beeswing to myself since I only just started nosing around in it.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
Beeswing is excellent, especially if your main interest is in Fairport Convention. Thompson focuses on his upbringing through Fairport Convention to his conversion to Islam, but after that, he writes about his life in much less detail.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
That's usually the opposite of how those bios go, so that's a plus for me. I guess because the recent events and work are usually at the front of the writers' minds, they are recalled with more clarity. The Bob Mould book is a great example. It was like he just couldn't wait to blaze through the Husker and Sugar stuff so he could write about working for the WCW and getting into techno. Neither of which was as interesting to read about as it sounds.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Ugh, I guess I'll skip Mould's book. That's really disappointing, because he seemed like someone who could write a great memoir.
The only thing I would have liked was an equivalent amount of detail on Richard's work with Linda, and given how it was entwined with his personal life, I can see how he would be reluctant to do that. Plus quite a few people still insist that Shoot Out the Lights was autobiographical when he's already explained many times why that isn't so. I think he's already had enough talking or writing about those years as a result.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
Feel like maybe more often than not there is also usually some big block of negative emotion– anger, resentment or just plain old bad blood– that has to be addressed somehow before even beginning to tell the old stories of the original band without it turning into simple score-settling and backbiting. “I’m not going to give those bastards any credit! They’ve already taken more than their fair share and bled me dry for all those years. Turnabout is fair play.” Richard seems like a reasonably retrospective person that could get to some kind of place to deliver a balanced enough story. I also imagine that telling too much about his relationship with Linda would be fairly painful for all involved. Now picturing Teddy on the phone to Rufus Wainwright if not Martha: “Can you believe what he wrote? Listen to this!”
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
From what I know about the Lol Tolhurst book (which I own and have delved into but…) he was able to get to the good storytelling place as well.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Huh.
Can't believe no one told me that Richard Thompson & Dave Mattacks rejoined Fairport Convention last weekend to play Full House in its entirety. https://t.co/9yAe0PuSzi— Tyler Wilcox (@tywilc) August 17, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
Good find. Those Fairport folks still seem to be pretty good friends. And props for the frontline rocking shorts.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137254526#/?channel=RES_BUY
Experience the vibes in the original Fairport house! Yours for £4,300,000. Includes duplex annex with a self contained flat and garage space for multiple cars. Listing doesn't mention it but the property is also within walking distance of both Muswell Hill Sainsbury's and a fairly decent Chinese.
― You have already voted in this poll and cannot vote again (Matt #2), Friday, 15 December 2023 17:41 (three months ago) link
its better to buy something that hasn't been done up than something done up badly
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 23:26 (three months ago) link