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Tag Archives: English folk rock
Bert Jansch’s Moonshine
The year 1973 was not all that good a year for music, as far as I was concerned. There were a few bright lights, but mostly, the vibrant rock music of the late ’60s was morphing into bloated arena rock … Continue reading
Pentangle’s Finale
Pentangle will always be an autumnal group for me. Probably because I first heard them when I visited the University of Oregon in the fall of my senior year of high school. And also maybe because I bought my first … Continue reading
Pentangle’s The Time Has Come: 1967-1973
By my recollection it was The Pentangle when they started. And then they lost the definitive article and were just Pentangle. Whatever they called themselves, they were like fish out of water at the time. My friends didn’t listen to them at … Continue reading
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Steeleye Span at the Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre
Guest writer Tony Wighton contributed this review. Well, having given the new album a good airing I knew that the band had some good material, so how would they perform without the person who in some peoples’ eyes ‘is’ Steeleye … Continue reading
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Patrick Humphries’ Richard Thompson: The Biography
Biographies of musicians are always dangerous propositions. Too many are tell-alls that insist on concentrating on lurid details and scandal, to the point where the reader forgets that the book is about a musician. Others go the other way, and … Continue reading
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Oysterband’s Deserters
Contrary to what the liner notes in the recent Pearls from the Oysters compilation suggest, the finest period in the Oysterband’s long and illustrious history was the 3-CD arc that began with Deserters and culminated in The Shouting End of … Continue reading
Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall’s Ashley Hutchings: Always Chasing Rainbows
It’s been several years since the publication of Ashley Hutchings: The Guv’nor & The Rise Of Folk Rock, the first volume in a trilogy of books covering the life and astounding career of AH. So rich and multi faceted is the … Continue reading
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Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall’s Ashley Hutchings: The Guv’nor & the Rise of Folk Rock
To some of us the subject of this book is, if not God, at least the musical equivalent to the pope. Name a group you like and have followed over the years, and there is a fair chance that Mr. … Continue reading
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George Berger’s Dance Before the Storm: The Official Story of the Levellers
Chris Woods penned this review. What a pleasant surprise, a musical biography which I actively enjoyed reading! I’m afraid I’m old enough, and difficult enough nowadays, to find that many biographies of bands and artists contain more irritation content than … Continue reading
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Oyster Ceilidh Band’s Jack’s Alive, Oyster Band’s English Rock ‘N Roll: the Early Years (1800-1850) and Lie Back and Think of England
Ed Dale wrote this review. I stumbled onto the Oysterband several years back via a copy of Little Rock to Leipzig, received as a premium during a college radio station’s fund drive. This was blind good luck. The two CDs I … Continue reading
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