Saturday 19 February 2011

What the folk is going on?



OK, just a collection of (mostly) obscure folk/folk rock music covering the years 1969-1973. Some elements of prog in 2 or 3 of the tracks, but nothing wrong with prog folk! I was going to do 2 discs, one of English folk bands and one of American/rest of the world... but decided what the hell I'll just try to make it as diverse as possible. And folk is often maligned as men with beards, fingers in the ear, singing songs of the sea or of days gone by etc etc. I hope this mix will tempt anyone who has steered clear of anything folk related to take a listen and hopefully find something to their liking.


01. Fresh Maggots - Rosemary Hill (3:35) from "Fresh Maggots... Hatched" 1971
02. Comus - Diana (4:36) from "First Utterance" 1971
03. Robin Scott - The Sound Of Rain (4:31) from "Woman From The Warm Grass" 1969
04. Mellow Candle - The Poet And The Witch (2:52) from "Swaddling Songs" 1972
05. Subway - All The Good Things (3:57) from "Subway" 1972
06. The Pentangle - Sally Go Round The Roses (3:40) from "Basket Of Light" 1969
07. Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind (3:23) from "In My Own Time" 1971
08. Ora - Seashore (2:53) from "Ora" 1969
09. Fuchsia - The Nothing Song (8:26) from "Fuchsia" 1971
10. Wizz Jones - Dazzling Stranger (3:05) from "The Legendary Me" 1970
11. Spirogyra - The Future Won't Be Long (4:18) from "St. Radigunds" 1971
12. Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Raider (5:15) from "Farewell Aldebaran" 1969
13. Alan Hull - United States Of Mind (3:08) from "Pipedream" 1973
14. Gordon Jackson - Song For Freedom (4:52) from "Thinking Back" 1969
15. Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Jusqu'a Ce Que La Force De T'aimer Me Manque (2:58) from "Paix" 1972
16. Montreal - What About The Wind? (2:29) from "A Summer's Night" 1970
17. Fraser & DeBolt - David's Tune (3:25) from "Fraser & DeBolt with Ian Guenther" 1971
18. Jade - Mayfly (3:36) from "Fly On Strangewings" 1970
19. Oriental Sunshine - Across Your Life (3:31) from "Dedicated To The Bird We Love" 1970
20. Ithaca - Journey (5:08) from "A Game for All Who Know" 1973






2 comments:

Andy Tithesis said...

Damn I feel like I'm a student at school again. Wait— no I don't! As I am actually enjoying this. He he. Thx fam!

slugbucket said...

Ah, my very first folk mix... Memories! Thanks for your comment, which directed me here and brought to my notice this is in mp3 format only. I should get to work on recreating this in FLAC, which I'll do once I've finished working on my latest artist anthology. Cheers!