VA-The_Acoustic_Folk_Box-4CD-2002-JUST
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░ ▓█████████▓▓█▀ [ J U S T F U N . P R E S E N T S ] ▐█▄██▓▀
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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: VA ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: The Acoustic Folk Box ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Folk ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Topic Records ░▓░ █▓▌
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▓████▓▌ cd1 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ 01. Lonnie Donegan - Jack O'Diamonds 02:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Davy Graham & Alexis Korner - ╛ AD 04:41 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. The Galliards - MacPherson's Rant 02:22 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Ray & Archie Fisher - Twa Corbies 02:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Bob Davenport - Tramps and Hawkers 03:01 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. The Dubliners - The Rocky Road to Dublin 02:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Ewan MacColl - Song of the Iron Road 03:12 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Anne Briggs - She Moves Through the Fair 02:17 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. The Ian Campbell Folk Group - The Times They 03:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Are A-Changing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. The Three City Four - Across the Hills 02:01 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. The Fisher Family - Joy of My Heart 01:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Bert Jansch - Angi 03:12 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - Reynardine 02:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14. Julie Felix - Geordie 02:25 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 15. The Watersons - Dido Bendigo 02:57 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16. A L Lloyd - The Two Magicians 04:43 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 17. The Exiles - The Moving On Song 03:11 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 18. Martin Carthy - Sovay 02:12 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 19. The Incredible String Band - First Girl I 04:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Loved ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 20. The Young Tradition - Lyke Wake Dirge 02:49 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 21. John Renbourn - Transfusion 02:02 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 22. Sandy Denny - You Never Wanted Me 03:24 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 23. Dave Swarbrick - The Cuckoo's Nest 02:40 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 24. Sweeney's Men - The House Carpenter 03:57 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 25. Ralph McTell - Spiral Staircase 03:35 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ cd2 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ 01. Pentangle - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 02:48 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Shirley Collins - Bonnie Boy 03:43 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Robin & Barry Dransfield - The Rout of the 02:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Blues ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Lal & Mike Waterson - Bright Phoebus 02:56 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - Sorry the Day I Was 01:28 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Married ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Oak - Scan's Polkas 02:15 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Dick Gaughan - Rattlin' Roarin' Willie / The 02:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Friars Britches ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Frankie Armstrong - The Crafty Maids Policy 02:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Nic Jones - Billy Don't You Weep For Me 04:54 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris - The Rose of 04:41 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Britain's Isles / Glorishears ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Etchingham Steam Band - Hard Times of Old 04:25 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ England ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. The Bothy Band - The Kesh Jig / Give Us a 04:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Drink of Water/The Flower of the Flock / Famou ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey - The Ant & the 02:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Grasshopper ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14. Roy Harris - The Methody Parson 02:25 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 15. Bill Caddick - John O'Dreams 04:22 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16. Bandoggs - The Rose of Allandale 04:46 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 17. Peter Bellamy - The Shepherd of the Downs 04:50 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 18. John Kirkpatrick & Chums - Brighton Camp / 03:46 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The March Past ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 19. New Victory Band - Harpers Frolick / Bonny 02:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Kate ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 20. Steve Ashley - Once in a While 04:28 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ cd3 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ 01. Battlefield Band - Miss Drummond of Perth / 03:26 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Fiddler's Joy / Traditional Reel / The Shetlan ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Rory McLeod - Farewell Welfare 03:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Dick Gaughan - Erin-Go-Bragh 04:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Richard Thompson - Rockin' In Rhythm 02:46 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Old Swan Band - Stephen Baldwin's 04:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Schottisches Nos 1 & 2 / The Kennet Jig ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Alistair Anderson - In Trim / Mount Hooley / 03:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Lemington Bank ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. June Tabor - Lay This Body Down 02:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Martin Simpson - The First Cut Is The Deepest 03:36 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. The English Country Blues Band - Handsome 03:00 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Johnny ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Vin Garbutt - If 02:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Brass Monkey - The Maid & The Palmer 05:34 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Blowzabella - Shave The Monkey / Boys Of The 02:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Mill ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Kathryn Tickell - A B Hornpipe / Mrs 02:32 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Bolowski's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14. Pete Morton - Another Train 03:21 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 15. Swan Arcade - Coal Not Dole 02:50 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16. Silly Sisters - Blood & Gold / Mohacs 03:50 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 17. Andrew Cronshaw - Wasps In The Woodpile 04:07 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 18. Patrick Street - Patrick Street / The 03:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Carraroe Jig ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 19. Altan - A Bhean Udai Thall 03:32 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 20. Mouth Music - Fraoch A Ronaigh 03:17 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ cd4 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ 01. Emmylou Harris - The Grey Funnel Line 03:49 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies - A Call For The 03:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ North Country ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Ron Kavana - Reconciliation 04:38 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. The House Band - Pharoah 03:14 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Chris Wood - Out Come The Freaks 05:08 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Billy Bragg - Moving The Goalposts 02:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Waterson:Carthy - When First I Came To 05:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Caledonia ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Richard Thompson - Beeswing 05:32 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Dervish - Molly And Johnny 03:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Shooglenifty - Venus In Tweeds 04:07 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Martin Hayes - The Graf Spey 03:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Jerusalem Revisited 04:57 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - How Can I 02:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Leave ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14. June Tabor - A Place Called England 04:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 15. Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - Reel Du Pendu 02:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16. Maddy Prior - Twankydillo 02:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 17. Fernhill - Llatai 03:40 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 18. Kate Rusby - The Cobbler's Daughter 02:39 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 19. John Tams - From Where I Lie 05:43 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 20. Eliza Carthy - 10,000 Miles 03:05 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Compiling a representative collection of the folk ▓▌
▓████▓▌ revival in the British Isles must be one of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ most daunting tasks imaginable. The starting point ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is perhaps the simplest, and is well chosen on The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Acoustic Folk Box, an epic and highly successful ▓▌
▓████▓▌ four-album box set. But after that, deciding which ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians and which songs and tunes to include must ▓▌
▓████▓▌ have caused nightmares. But compiler David Suff and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ project coordinator Tony Engle have done a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ magnificent job putting together "four decades of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the very best acoustic folk music from the British ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Isles." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Set out in approximate chronological order, the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ first album opens with the incomparable Lonnie ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Donegan performing his 1957 skiffle version of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Jack O'Diamonds." Skiffle was in essence a simple, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ homemade form of music -- all you needed was a bit ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of a voice, a guitar, a tea-chest-string-and-broom ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bass and a washboard, and your skiffle group was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ready. Growing out of the trad jazz scene in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ '50s, the style soon was well-represented on the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pop charts and, more to the point, gave a direction ▓▌
▓████▓▌ for many a budding musician. It was not just bands ▓▌
▓████▓▌ like the Beatles who formed as skiffle groups; many ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performers who later emerged onto the folk scene ▓▌
▓████▓▌ also got their start in the genre. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The 24 tracks which follow the Donegan classic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cover the period from 1960-69 in which folk music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ found its feet. Some musicians emerged from blues ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and jazz, some were heavily influenced by what was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ going on across the Atlantic and some were ▓▌
▓████▓▌ developing their own regional traditions. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Guitar, before this era not often associated with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ British traditions, became a crucial instrument as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ such influential players as John Renbourn, Davy ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Graham, Alexis Korner and Bert Jansch set ▓▌
▓████▓▌ standards. Even after nearly 40 years, I still ▓▌
▓████▓▌ can't play "Angi" but it sounds as fresh today as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ it did when I first tried. Not many would claim ▓▌
▓████▓▌ today that the guitar is not an integral part of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the culture, and these pioneers helped its ▓▌
▓████▓▌ establishment. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ A parallel folk revival was taking place in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ U.S. and, needless to say, it had an effect on the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ British Isles. Groups such as the Ian Campbell Folk ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Group (including Dave Swarbrick, later of Fairport ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Convention) approached their music with an American ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bent while retaining the character of their own ▓▌
▓████▓▌ traditions. And many Americans, from Bob Dylan to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Paul Simon, found their way to the old countries in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ search of music (and often, an audience, too). One ▓▌
▓████▓▌ such visitor who became quite a phenomenon was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Californian Julie Felix. I'd quite forgotten how ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beautifully she sang, as she shows on "Geordie," a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 1966 release accompanied by Swarbrick on fiddle and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitarist Martin Carthy. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Swarbrick and Carthy are well represented, which is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ only fitting for two of the most important ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians in English folk music: as solo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performers, as a duo and as accompanists; Carthy ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was later an integral part of such bands as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Steeleye Span and Brass Monkey and often performs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with his own family. They appear frequently ▓▌
▓████▓▌ throughout the whole box set. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Bob Davenport from the northeast of England, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Shirley and Dolly Collins from the south, the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Fisher family from Scotland and Ireland's Sweeney's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Men (with Andy Irvine, Johnny Moynihan and Terry ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Woods) tapped into their roots to find songs which ▓▌
▓████▓▌ would soon become staples. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ From these diverse origins, the folk scene evolved ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in several directions. The next decade, as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ represented by the second album, begins with one of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the most talented bands ever to emerge -- ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Pentangle, with Jansch and Renbourn along with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ singer Jacqui McShee, Terry Cox (percussion) and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Danny Thompson (bass). It's interesting to note ▓▌
▓████▓▌ their contribution was recorded by Shel Talmy, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ another ex-patriot American who along with people ▓▌
▓████▓▌ like Phil Coulter was one of the prime movers of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pop English music. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ There are little unexpected gems throughout the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ collection. Amongst other tracks, English country ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music band Oak performs a set of polkas, Scottish ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitarist and singer Dick Gaughan plays a Shetland ▓▌
▓████▓▌ set with fiddler Aly Bain, and Bill Caddick sings ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Martin Simpson plays a guitar version of "The First ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Cut Is the Deepest," Richard Thompson performs ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Music, and the wonderful placement of a set by ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ traditions, the final album opens with a Cyril ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Tawney song performed by Mary Black and Dolores ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Keane and Emmylou Harris -- England, Ireland, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ America. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ dated, yet even so, the fourth album contains some ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of the best material. Perhaps because of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ confidence in arrangements (Chris Wood's minimalist ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fiddle; Jez Lowe's bouncy accompaniment; Black, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Keane and Harris' moving harmonies), perhaps ▓▌
▓████▓▌ because of the high quality and adventurousness of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the musicians (there are truly some virtuoso ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performers here), but I find I play volume four ▓▌
▓████▓▌ over and over -- every track. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ It's amazing to note the staying power of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians, with the likes of Martin Carthy and the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Watersons having appeared throughout the whole ▓▌
▓████▓▌ collection. A glance at the excellent 56-page ▓▌
▓████▓▌ accompanying booklet shows new waves of musicians ▓▌
▓████▓▌ complementing rather than replacing the earlier ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performers. (Indeed, Lonnie Donegan released a new ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recording not that long ago, shortly before his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ death -- and he was still as good as ever.) ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ It would be pointless to talk about omissions even ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ almost five hours -- can represent every strand, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ every musician. But David Suff has managed to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ present something which gives a good sense of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ development of the music, shows an understanding in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the interrelationship between various styles, and ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ On occasion, the otherwise excellent accompanying ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ banjo, for example). But the short essays and pen ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pictures of the performers, along with the photos, ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Traditions live on and the folk scene of England, ▓▌
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