SORM Playlist #14-47: More Classic UK Folk Rock
(airing the week starting 11-19-14)
This week we complete our two part feature of classic Folk and Folk Rock from the UK we’ll hear some lesser known (but not less talented) performers and bands. The program features The Albion Country Band, John Martyn, The Strawbs, Anne Briggs and a super group called the Bunch comprised of some of the finest performers. In a later episode we’ll sample some of the contemporary players keeping this sound alive today.
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Bert Jansch / “Miss Heather Rosemary Sewell” / Birthday Blues / Castle
Strawbs / “Martin Luther King’s Dream” / Just a Collection of
Antiques and Curios / A&M
Clannad / “Coinleach Ghlas An Fhomair” / Clannad 2 / Shanachie
Planxty / “Merrily Kissed The Quaker” / The Planxty Collection / Shanachie
Contraband / “The Banks of Claudy” / Contraband / Sanctuary
Forest / “Famine Song” / Full Circle / BGO-EMI
Trees / “Lady Margaret” / The Garden of Jane Delawney / Columbia
Bert Jansch / “Blues” / Birthday Blues / Castle
Fotheringay / “Too Much of Nothing” / Fotheringay / Fledg’ling
Richard & Linda Thompson / “We Sing Hallelujah” / I Want to See
the Bright Lights Tonight / Island
Albion Country Band / “New St. George/La Rotta” / Battle of the
Field / Island
John Martyn / “May You Never” / Solid Air / Island
Lindisfarne / “Road to Kingdom Come” / Nicely Out of Tune / Charisma
Fairport Convention / “Rising for the Moon” / Rising For The Moon /
Island
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways