Songs You May Have Missed #200
Steeleye Span: “Marigold/Harvest Home” (1980) Download: marigold-harvest-home.mp3 My two favorite songs of the Autumn season happen to fall (yes, fall) at numbers 100 and 200 in this series of posts....
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Steeleye Span: All Around My Hat (1975) First, a couple points of clarification may be in order: The similarity in name to American jazz rock band Steely Dan is purely coincidental. British folk...
View ArticleSome Important Observations On Steeleye Span, Experiments In Folk Rock And Cows
(via 90.9 wbur in Boston) Chris Braiotta I want to talk to you about what it means to experiment. Let’s begin with the following sentence: “We did try a reggae ‘Spotted Cow’ and we weren’t terribly...
View ArticleSome Important Observations On Steeleye Span, Experiments In Folk Rock And Cows
(via The ARTery) uly 20, 2015 by Chris Braiotta I want to talk to you about what it means to experiment. Let’s begin with the following sentence: “We did try a reggae ‘Spotted Cow’ and we weren’t...
View ArticleSongs You May Have Missed #718
Maddy Prior: “Gutter Geese” (1978) From Maddy Prior’s 1978 Ian Anderson-produced solo album Woman in the Wings comes this cheery Britfolk-flavoured ditty. And yes, that’s Ian Anderson taking the flute...
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