Strangers in the Room: Journey Through the British: Strangers In The Room: Journey Through The British Folk Rock Scene 1967-1973 / Various
Strangers in the Room: Journey Through the British: Strangers In The Room: Journey Through The British Folk Rock Scene 1967-1973 / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Strangers in the Room: Journey Through the British
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929185401
Genre: Rock
Three CD set. It's now half-a-century since British folk rock became A Thing, with the early practitioners breaking new ground and inspiring an entire scene that peaked in the late '60s/early '70s. Earnest young post-Dylan singer/songwriters moved away from the intimacy of the folk clubs in favor of the nascent college/university circuit. Housed in a clamshell box featuring a lavish 40-page booklet, Strangers In The Room documents that hugely fertile period, when everything was grist to the mill in what quickly became a glorious stylistic melting pot. As with other Grapefruit genre anthologies, the set features many of the scene's prime movers while taking a broader look at the overall picture with the inclusion of several acts who ploughed a similar musical furrow without the same level of acclaim. These include Hertfordshire-based group Lifeblud, who supported many of the leading bands of the era and recorded no less than three albums of original material (none of which made it past acetate stage), and university student Jeremy Harmer, who cut a privately-pressed album that inspired his friend and second guitarist David Costa to put together Trees. Ranging in scope from seminal UK folk rock texts and chart-topping singles to lo-fi demo recordings, and featuring a number of previously unreleased tracks from the disparate likes of Gerry Rafferty and cult favorites Fresh Maggots, Strangers In The Room pays thrilling testimony to the depth of talent that existed within the British and Irish folk rock scene during the period in question, and whose influence still reverberates some fifty years later.
Tracks:
1.1 Stranger in the Room - Michael Chapman
1.2 The Blacksmith - Steeleye Span
1.3 Dangerous Dave
1.4 (Alternative Version) - Spirogyra
1.5 Murdoch - Trees
1.6 Sad Song for Winter - Chimera
1.7 Shoeshine Boy - the Humblebums
1.8 Martha - Harvey Andrews
1.9 Hanging Tree - Oo Bang Jiggly Jang
1.10 She's Getting Married in August - Alan James Eastwood
1.11 Amongst Anemones - Jade
1.12 I Don't Know Why - Knocker Jungle
1.13 The Sailor - Robin Scott
1.14 Here Comes the Rain - Trader Horne
1.15 My Delicate Skin - Dave Cartwright
1.16 Almost Liverpool 8 - Mike Hart
1.17 Candy Dora - Richmond
1.18 Don't Know Why You Bother Child - Gary Farr
1.19 1917 Revolution - Beau
1.20 Jesus Was a Carpenter - the Johnstons
1.21 We Can Swing Together - Alan Hull
2.1 Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort
2.2 The Man Who Called
2.3 Himself Jesus - the Strawbs
2.4 As I Roved Out - the Woods Band
2.5 Sir Patrick Spens - Fairport Convention
2.6 Be Not So Fearful (Demo Version) - Bill Fay
2.7 I Loved Her So Long - Unicorn
2.8 Sarah in the Isle of Wight -Al Jones
2.9 Song for a Dead Mole - Lea Nicholson ; Stan Ellison
2.10 There's a Place I Know - Bridget St. John
2.11 People Smile with Ghosts in the Land of Make-Believe - Jeremy Harmer
2.12 Pucka-Ri - Urban Clearway
2.13 Scranky Black Farmer - C.O.B
2.14 Lady of St. Clare - Daylight
2.15 Love Has Gone - Mary-Anne
2.16 Time Machine - Mick Softley
2.17 Fleance - Third Ear Band
2.18 Morning Glow - Storyteller
2.19 Riverboat - Dando Shaft
2.20 What I Am - Fresh Maggots
2.21 Like a Rolling Stone - Canticle
3.1 Queen of the Moonlight World - Andy Roberts
3.2 The Cuckoo - the Pentangle
3.3 Little Woman - Mr. Fox
3.4 Father Forgive Them - Ralph McTell
3.5 Just As the Tide Was a 'Flowing - Shirley Collins ;
3.6 The Albion Country Band
3.7 Oh Did I Love a Dream - Incredible String Band
3.8 Strange Days - Paper Bubble
3.9 Dahlia -Paul Brett's Sage
3.10 Your Lovely Ways (Part One) - Mike Cooper
3.11 River of Fortune - Heron
3.12 Beverley Market Meeting - Jude
3.13 All in a Dream - Steve Tilston
3.14 Carry Me - Prelude
3.15 City Girl - Joan Armatrading
3.16 Furniture - Horslips
3.17 Who Cares - Gerry Rafferty
3.18 Young Waters - JSD Band
3.19 September - 9.30 FL
3.20 Waxing of the Moon - Lifeblud
3.21 Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Sandy Denny
