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Thread #144953   Message #3573567
Posted By: Phil Edwards
07-Nov-13 - 08:07 AM
Thread Name: Great 70s folk LPs (that I've missed)
Subject: RE: Great 70s folk LPs (that I've missed)
Eighteen months on, here's that list again:

Great folk LPs (that I've missed) from the 1970s and thereabouts: a preliminary list

Peter Bellamy (and the Young Tradition): several
Shirley Collins (with or without Dolly Collins): several

Albion Country Band: the Battle of the Field
Frankie Armstrong: Lovely on the Water
Dave and Toni Arthur: Morning stands on tiptoe
Dave Burland: Dalesman's Litany
Martin Carthy: Prince Heathen (and others)
Pete & Chris Coe: Out of Season,out of Rhyme
The Dransfields: The Rout Of The Blues
Jim Eldon: I Wish There was No Prisons
Derek and Dorothy Elliot: first album
Ray Fisher: The Bonny Birdy
Bob Fox and Stu Luckly: Nowt So Good'll Pass
Dick Gaughan: A Handful of Earth (and others)
John Goodluck: The Suffolk Miracle (and others)
Roy Harris: The Bitter and the Sweet
Louis Killen: Ballads and Broadsides
John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris: Among the many attractions at the show will be a Really High Class Band (and others)
Muckram Wakes: A Map of Derbyshire
Lea Nicholson: Horsemusic
Roger Nicholson, Jake Walton and Andrew Cronshaw: Times and Traditions for Dulcimer
Maddy Prior and Tim Hart: Summer Solstice
Watersons: Frost and Fire (and others)

And in those eighteen months I've caught up with...

Albion Country Band: the Battle of the Field

Which is an absolute corker, it has to be said. Could be subtitled "In which Ashley and friends invent folk-rock without really thinking about it, and do it properly".

Still, only one album out of 20+. I'll have to step up my acquisition rate if I'm going to get through the list.

(I was reminded of this thread by the sight of a copy of New Victory Band's One More Dance And Then (which nobody mentioned) in the Manchester Oxfam shop. Muckram Wakes plus Pete and Chris Coe! Very tempting, even for someone who prefers songs to tunes, but the condition of the vinyl was just too dodgy.)