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ASAM #06 - The British Folk Rock Episode

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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:

  1. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
  2. Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
  3. Fairport Convention - A Sailor’s Life
  4. Pentangle - House Carpenter
  5. Pentangle - Cruel Sister
  6. Steeleye Span - Drink Down the Moon/The Cuckoo
  7. Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
  8. Shirley Collins and The Albion Band - The Murder of Maria Martens
  9. Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile
  10. Ashley Hutchings - He’s Young but He’s Growing
  11. Crumbling Ghost - The Good Old Way
  12. Galley Beggar - The Girl I Left Behind Me
  13. Mary Jane - Twa Corbies
  14. The Owl Service - Cruel Mother
  15. The Owl Service - Sea Song
  16. Trembling Bells - Adieu, England
  17. The Shining Levels - Slow Pass the Autumn Clouds
  18. Rowan Amber Mill - The Hunter
  19. Eliza Carthy - Worcester City

    20. https://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/

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