Title: Blowing Free: Underground & Progressive Sounds Of 1972 / Various
Artist: Blowing Free: Underground & Progressive Sounds of
Label: Esoteric
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929479982
Genre: Rock

UK four CD box set celebrating the finest sounds of the so-called "underground" and progressive rock music of 1972. Five hours of music featuring tracks by Atomic Rooster, Barclay James Harvest, Edgar Broughton Band, Caravan, Curved Air, Emerson Lake And Palmer, Family, Free, Gentle Giant, Hawkwind, Help Yourself, Khan, Lindisfarne, Man, Matching Mole, Nektar, Pretty Things, Procol Harum, Nektar, Rare Bird, Al Stewart, Ten Years After, Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, Van Der Graaf Generator, Vinegar Joe, Wishbone Ash, Yes and many more. Much of this music appeared on the "progressive" imprints of major record labels such as EMI's Harvest, Decca's Deram and Philips Records' Vertigo and the emerging independent labels such as Charisma, United Artists and Island Records and led to an increased presence of underground album music on BBC Radio One.

Tracks:
1.1 Hoedown - Emerson Lake ; Palmer
1.2 Time Take My Life - Atomic Rooster
1.3 Get Out of Bed / There's Nobody There / Side By Side - Edgar Broughton Band
1.4 Medicine Man (Single Version) - Barclay James Harvest
1.5 Marie Antoinette - Curved Air
1.6 Skin Valley Serenade - Skin Alley
1.7 Swamp Fever - Open Road
1.8 Don't Ask Me - Lindisfarne
1.9 Songs Out of Clay - Al Stewart
1.10 Sheep Season - Mellow Candle
1.11 Epic Forest - Rare Bird
1.12 My Friend the Sun - Family
1.13 Do You Believe in Magic (Single Version) - Nektar
1.14 Seven By Seven (Single Version) - Hawkwind
1.15 And You and I - Yes
2.1 Time Was - Wishbone Ash
2.2 A Winter's Tale - Jade Warrior
2.3 The Love in Your Eye/To Catch Me a Brother/Subsultus/Debouchment/Tilbury Kecks - Caravan
2.4 Brainstorm - Hawkwind
2.5 Theme One - Van Der Graaf Generator
2.6 Reaffirmation - Help Yourself
2.7 Burlesque - Family
2.8 O Caroline - Matching Mole
2.9 Conquistador (Live) - Procol Harum
2.10 Lost Tribe - Bond ; Brown
2.11 Speed Queen of Ventura - Vinegar Joe
2.12 Wishing Well - Free
3.1 The Wizard - Uriah Heep
3.2 Prologue - Renaissance
3.3 Chilly Morning Mama - Edgar Broughton Band
3.4 American Mother - Help Yourself
3.5 Love Is Good - Pretty Things
3.6 Turn It All Around - Rare Bird
3.7 Blowin' Free - Wishbone As
3.8 Bananas - Man
3.9 Blue Angel - Dave Cousins
3.10 See the World (Through My Eyes) - Vinegar Joe
3.11 Lady of the Lake - Jade Warrior
3.12 Stranded - Khan
3.13 Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy
4.1 Two Weeks Last Summer - Dave Cousins
4.2 Nick's Seven - Skin Alley
4.3 Choo Choo Mama - Ten Years After
4.4 Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown
4.5 Peter - Pretty Things
4.6 Rip Off Train - Pretty Things
4.7 Instant Kitten - Matching Mole
4.8 The Boys in the Band - Gentle Giant
4.9 Midnight Moses - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
4.10 Walk Don't Run - Pink Fairies
4.11 Ricochet - Jonesy
4.12 When the City Sleeps - Bombadil
4.13 Desolation Valley/Waves - Nektar
4.14 Melinda More or Less - Curved Air
4.15 Hollow Stone - Khan