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10 Jun 10 - 08:57 AM (#2924534) Subject: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Vin2 Did you know this year marks 40 years (1970 - correct me i'm wrong) since the release of 'The Rout of The Blues' ? Wow amazing, don't time fly. I was blown away when i first bought it (still have the vinyl) and class it as one to the best folk albums ever, brilliant harmonies, playing fiddle / guitar and songs too. Definately on a par with 'Liege & Lief', 'No Roses', 'Morris On' in my opinion. What d'ya think ? |
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10 Jun 10 - 09:09 AM (#2924544) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: GUEST,Ed What d'ya think ? I find that 'What d'ya think' is an exceptionally ugly turn of phrase. Try writing in English please. |
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10 Jun 10 - 09:48 AM (#2924565) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: theleveller "Try writing in English please. " If you're going to be pedantic, that should read: Try writing in English, please. Or Please try writing in English. Anyway, back to the thread. Yes, it's certainly a great album - I recently bought a copy on CD. I knew Robin and Barry back in the mid-60s when they used to come to our folk club in Bridlington and we went to theirs in Harrogate. At that time, they were playing a lot of American stuff and one (can never remember which) taught me how to frail banjo properly. Really nice blokes and great musicians. |
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10 Jun 10 - 09:55 AM (#2924569) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Will Fly Still have my original copy - and I still listen to it regularly. Wonderful stuff with, for me, the best version of "Scarborough Fair" I've ever heard. |
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10 Jun 10 - 09:57 AM (#2924572) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: RTim I can remember when they came to the club in Banbury. I think they would still be standing and talking to this day - if I hadn't taken their gear down the stairs to their van!!! Tim Radford |
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10 Jun 10 - 10:10 AM (#2924580) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) I remember hearing them for the first time at a folk festival at Syon Park in Brentford in 1971. I was 14 at the time. Absolutely astonished. Bought 'Lord Of All I Behold' by mail order soon after, though I never got the first one. That was a great record as well - it's been rather overshadowed by the first one. Unfairly, I think, but that's just my opinion. I believe Barry is now living in Hastings making and repairing fiddles. What's Robin up to? |
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10 Jun 10 - 10:25 AM (#2924597) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: pavane I also have the vinyl. Shame it was Bulmerised. |
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10 Jun 10 - 10:29 AM (#2924599) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Will Fly I'm told that Barry was living in Hastings but is now living in France. |
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10 Jun 10 - 11:15 AM (#2924635) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Paul Davenport Just listened to it in the car this afternoon. Amazing to think its 40 years old. It would stand up as a performance alongside many modern offerings and not sound dated. |
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10 Jun 10 - 11:54 AM (#2924658) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Vic Smith Mike wrote I'm told that Barry was living in Hastings but is now living in France. In a fairly isolated valley in Brittany with only a few houses in it. Another in the valley is occupied by Trevor Bennett ex- Gas Mark 5 |
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10 Jun 10 - 05:17 PM (#2924946) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Edthefolkie "Rout of the Blues" is a truly wonderful, nay seminal, album and they are both fantastic guys (even if they did er, fight a bit once upon a time). I remember a female flatmate whispering "It's Heathcliff!" when Barry walked onstage around 1973, talk about charisma..... The Free Reed "Up to Now" compilation is a very good introduction to both Dransfields, and Barry's fairly recent "Unruly" and "Wings of the Sphinx" are great too. Think you can get all of 'em off the web one way or another. I believe Barry's site shop redirects you to a record company site now he's in Bretagne - he used to flog and pack the CD's himself when he was in Hastings. |
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10 Jun 10 - 06:23 PM (#2925018) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Bonnie Shaljean You could try here: http://www.spinneyrecords.co.uk/index.php?page=artists The house where Foyle (of Foyle's War) lives is only a couple of doors down from where Barry was, two houses ago. I think Robin's in Cornwall, repairing fiddle bows - good at it too, from what I hear. |
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10 Jun 10 - 06:50 PM (#2925042) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: GUEST Shouldn't that be: 'Waddya think?' |
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10 Jun 10 - 08:04 PM (#2925087) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: GUEST,Guest - Jim Younger Yes, a wonderful record, a real classic. Such a tight brother duo, the Dransfields were. Nice people, too. |
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11 Jun 10 - 02:50 AM (#2925240) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Dave Hanson Of course they are nice people, they are Yorkshiremen. Dave H |
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11 Jun 10 - 03:59 AM (#2925262) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: brezhnev england's answer to the everly brothers and the kings of country 'n' north-eastern! can't think of a single thing they've recorded that i don't love. at last there's a discography of their records on the web - on reinhard zierke's great site. |
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11 Jun 10 - 04:42 AM (#2925270) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: GUEST,Ray Not to forget Barry's cameo appearance in "The Bounty". |
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11 Jun 10 - 04:46 AM (#2925271) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Dave Sutherland We gave them their first work in the North East at The Royal Turf, Felling on Tyne back in 1969 just after my 21st. Yes time does fly!! |
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11 Jun 10 - 05:12 PM (#2925743) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Singing Referee I took a copy of "Rout of The Blues" as my fee for the residency the first night they appeared at The Hop Poles in Enfield. Still play the tape I recorded from the vinyl in the car. Got "Lord of All I Behold" when they came back. |
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11 Jun 10 - 06:08 PM (#2925783) Subject: RE: Robin & Barry Dransfield From: Paul Burke Where did they get that Dartington mock- mediaeval thing? |