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An item I'm still curious for. Anyone has information ? Is it worth to trace ?
According to the Bruton Town list voting : 1 vote : "*" to avoid
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VARIOUS : 
V.A. : HISTORY OF THE UK FOLK ROCK UNDERGROUND 2.
According to Greyhound Rec.this is an "18 track collection of the rarest psychedelic, esotreic & electric folk rock from the uk & ireland. includes tracks by mellow candle, shide & acorn, tir na nog, flibbertigibbet & many more."
According to the Bruton Town list voting : 1 vote : highly recommended
V.A. : LAST THING ON MY MIND HOLYGROUND/WORKS VOL. 1
I did not hear this. According to Greyhound Rec.this is a "Lush remastered cd reissue of hopelessly rare 'private pressing' form '66. Very much part of the uk folk/rock scene featuring contributions from chris barber, mike levon, chris coombes & many more. the start of the 'holyground' label."
V.A. : LOOSE ROOTS 1 & 2 (?)
I did not hear thesie compilations. "The Holyground label under license to Kissing Spell presents these two compilations which represent volumes 10&11 of "The Works" series. All recordings made between 1966 and 1975. Loose Routes starts in The Bretton in 1966 and ends in The Cass Yard in the early 70's, moving from folk to rock: from a mix of covers and new songs to wholly original music."
V.A. : LOOSE ROOTS 1
According to the label this is "a folk rock album, charts Mike Levon's and Holygrounds early career from 1966 to 1971, music from Moodie's Bar, a centre for folk singers and writers, in Wakefield, The Bretton Hall and ending up with recordings from the Cass Yard. The records made at Moodies Bar, and subsequently at the Bretton were recorded straight to master tapes often just using plastic mikes supplied with domestic tape recorders. On moving to Cass's yard Mike bought a "Brennell", two mixing desks were installed and he also invested in a couple of AKG mikes. The sound quality improved!!
Bands include Number 9 Bread Street, Cross Section, A to Austr, Bill Nelson, early Thundermother and the beginnings of Astral Navigations and Jumble Lane."
V.A. : LOOSE ROOTS 2
According to the label this "takes Holyground from 1971 and the heavy psych-rock of Thundermother, through West coast sounds and progressive rock to 1975. Some performing bands paying for studio time, others just mates keen to have a go. Artists include Gygafo, Blue Epitaph, Skybird, Last Exit. Bill Nelson recorded Northern Dream, and early tracks as Be-Bop De Lux as yet unsigned to EMI. Chris Coombes was prolific, Steve Canning recorded acoustic songs with members of Lazy Days. Groups came from Leeds, Barnsley, and increasingly further a field. Newcastle Durham and Norfolk. Levon worked ceaselessly, sometimes recording with up to five or six bands a week.In 1975, at the height of all this frantic activity, Mike joined a group of others to establish a 16 track studio in Doncaster, the project folded and Holyground lay dormant until 1989."
TOBY JUG WASBOARD BAND : Greasy Quiff (1970)*°
Odd item. Folk Club music with elements of folk, 20's jugband kazoo like blues at the first 7 tracks. Sure this band would have been fun. Then follows a rock'n roll blues track, and mostly slightly underground bluesrock tracks, with still a hint of humour although less funny. I preferred the first half. But the last heavy fuzz guitar track I found very interesting too.
According to Greyhounds Records this is a "Reissue of rare (only 50 copies were pressed!) folk album from early '70s. Split between live & studio recordings. very much a busking type affair with washboards, kazoos, banjos, toby jugs etc. being used on this collectable piece."
According to the label this item is for the "First time on CD, 8 pages of rare pictures and sleeve note by a Radio 2 presenter! Highly original and very collectable, 50 copies pressed of vinyl in 1970. Half recorded in a Cambridge Folk Club and the other half round John's mum's place! Introduced on the record by Nick Barraclough currently presenting on BBC Radio 2, the album features the un-missable "Elastic Landlady" their very own and personal tribute to J--- -----ix!"
"The Toby Jug and Washboard Band - mid/late 1960's comedy blues / jug band Steve Brooks; Lead vocals, washboard, harmonica, banana, etc Trevor Vincent: Guitar, kazoo. Alan Vincent: Jug, bass Repertoire: early Jug Band classics and self penned material, mostly comedy and obscene. Recorded a famous album (Greasy Quiff) in 1969 which became a collectors item rated in the top three most expensive collectable LPs. in the world, (no 2 and 1 were rare Elvis and Beatles albums). It also featured an introduction by Nick Barraclough. Changed their name to Melton Constable for a couple of years and then reverted to Toby Jug and Washboard Band during a revival of interest in the early 1980's when we did three one hour shows for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire with Nick Barraclough and gigs at the Alma Brewery. The album has just been re-released on CD in 2001. Signed to Robert Stigwood and EMI for a while. Toby Jug toured or supported: Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath, Alexis Korner (he jammed with us as well at the Cambridge Blues Club over the Red Cow - where Fleetwood Mac and Free used to play each week), Martin Carthy, Geno Washington, we did Cambridge Folk Festival of course, 6 spots on Look East on Anglia Television, Folk club circuit, etc." S.Br.
According to the Bruton Town list voting : 1 vote : essential, 1 vote nothing special but still good
TICKAWINDA : Rosemary Lane (1979)**°
Surely one beautiful gentle folk traditional but mostly just good traditional folk, not so renewing. I prefer mostly more adventurous folk.
According to the label this is "Possibly the most collectable album in the world, recorded in 1979. No one had ever been in a recording studio before, then an unknown, Clive Gregson who sometimes sat in with the band at the Rose And Crown Folk Club in Stalybridge, Cheshire came to lend a hand. Clive remembers, "The sessions were great fun. We cut everything pretty much live and I can still see the intense concentration on everybody's faces as we went for a take and the big smiules when we listened to the playbacks. Paul Adshead engineered the sessions with patience, skill and humour and the album was favourably received by fans and critics alike when it was released in 1979." Paul Adshead has been recalled to re-master from the original tapes for this very exciting release. The album has been packaged with the original art work and a sleeve note by Clive Gregson."
"The sessions were recorded at Pennine Studios, an eight track facility behind an engineering facility in Oldham." The first pressing sold out very quickly."
"Tickawinda who reformed specially for the occasion after a gap of almost 20 years! Their album Rosemary Lane was re-issued in 2001. It was the first album I ever played on and it was a pleasure to see them all back together again. I had a great night at The Red Lion in Birmingham. It was strange to not see the legendary Jim McPhee, who has now retired."
"wanted to hear this album for years. Meanwhile, it grew to one of the perfect folk albums in my mind. The circumstances were perfect for a large scale disappointment. But not only did it live up to the impossible expectations--it actually surpassed them! A few rather common traditionals and a fair deal of songs borrowed from the Bert Jansch/Pentangle repertoire might not sound like a very inspiring set, but truth is the performances are spot-on. So many folk acts have great female vocals and not even half as good male vocals. Not so in this case. The vocals are brilliant, the harmonies blend in perfection, the guitar playing is sometimes jaw-dropping. An excellent proof that there are still treasures to be found out there." Peter Scion
According to the Bruton Town list voting :
1 vote : essential, 2 votes highly recommended 1 vote nothing special but still good
