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.
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Strangers In The Room: Journey Through The British Folk Rock Scene 1967-1973 / Various [Import]
10 She's Getting Married in August - Alan James Eastwood
11 Amongst Anemones - Jade
12 I Don't Know Why - Knocker Jungle
13 The Sailor - Robin Scott
14 Here Comes the Rain - Trader Horne
15 My Delicate Skin - Dave Cartwright
16 Almost Liverpool 8 - Mike Hart
17 Candy Dora - Richmond
18 Don't Know Why You Bother Child - Gary Farr
19 1917 Revolution - Beau
20 Jesus Was a Carpenter - the Johnstons
21 We Can Swing Together - Alan Hull
- Disc 2 -
1 Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort
2 The Man Who Called
3 Himself Jesus - the Strawbs
4 As I Roved Out - the Woods Band
5 Sir Patrick Spens - Fairport Convention
6 Be Not So Fearful (Demo Version) - Bill Fay
7 I Loved Her So Long - Unicorn
8 Sarah in the Isle of Wight -Al Jones
9 Song for a Dead Mole - Lea Nicholson & Stan Ellison
10 There's a Place I Know - Bridget St. John
11 People Smile with Ghosts in the Land of Make-Believe - Jeremy Harmer
12 Pucka-Ri - Urban Clearway
13 Scranky Black Farmer - C.O.B
14 Lady of St. Clare - Daylight
15 Love Has Gone - Mary-Anne
16 Time Machine - Mick Softley
17 Fleance - Third Ear Band
18 Morning Glow - Storyteller
19 Riverboat - Dando Shaft
20 What I Am - Fresh Maggots
21 Like a Rolling Stone - Canticle
- Disc 3 -
1 Queen of the Moonlight World - Andy Roberts
2 The Cuckoo - the Pentangle
3 Little Woman - Mr. Fox
4 Father Forgive Them - Ralph McTell
5 Just As the Tide Was a 'Flowing - Shirley Collins &
6 The Albion Country Band
7 Oh Did I Love a Dream - Incredible String Band
8 Strange Days - Paper Bubble
9 Dahlia -Paul Brett's Sage
10 Your Lovely Ways (Part One) - Mike Cooper
11 River of Fortune - Heron
12 Beverley Market Meeting - Jude
13 All in a Dream - Steve Tilston
14 Carry Me - Prelude
15 City Girl - Joan Armatrading
16 Furniture - Horslips
17 Who Cares - Gerry Rafferty
18 Young Waters - JSD Band
19 September - 9.30 FL
20 Waxing of the Moon - Lifeblud
21 Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Sandy Denny
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.