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Today's Irish/Scottish/English folk playlist

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]
 
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.
 
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.
 
vinyl1 said:
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.
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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.
 
modge said:
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.
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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
 
Cantabury Guy said:
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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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.
 
vinyl1 said:
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.
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Tempest - The Double-Cross

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