This new episode of Amazing Sounds Astounding Music analyses the rise and fall and survival of British folk rock, from it’s heydays in the early 70s to these days where the legacy of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Albion Band still pushes many musicians to produce great music far away from the commercial limelight, an underground artistic ley line running beneath the mainstream.
In this episode you will hear:
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
Fairport Convention - A Sailor’s Life
Pentangle - House Carpenter
Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Steeleye Span - Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo
Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
Shirley Collins and The Albion Band - The Murder of Maria Martens
Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile
Ashley Hutchings - He’s Young but He’s Growing
Crumbling Ghost - The Good Old Way
Galley Beggar - The Girl I Left Behind Me
Mary Jane - Twa Corbies
The Owl Service - Cruel Mother
The Owl Service - Sea Song
Trembling Bells - Adieu, England
The Shining Levels - Slow Pass the Autumn Clouds
Rowan Amber Mill - The Hunter
Eliza Carthy - Worcester Cityhttps://witheredhandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/five-songs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service_(band)
https://www.discogs.com/it/label/1575566-Dark-Britannica
https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/cropredy/
https://rowanambermill.bandcamp.com/
https://theshininglevels1.bandcamp.com/