Referring to history as set out in the recent books, and I can confirm this is the case with Electric Eden as I've just read it, he refers for example to the artists who recorded for labels like Trailer (N Jones, the Coes, Peggs, Arthurs, T Rose, D Burland etc) and Village Thing (S Tilston, W Jones, D Evans etc) and were relatively popular live folk performers at the time. On the other hand he thinks that the reputations of people like Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan etc whose major label records sold poorly and had no live performing career have got over-rated by comparison.
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