LINDA COHEN - Leda (Poppy, 1971)

No words to define this magnificent instrumental album: classical guitar and reverb effects with incredible sounds...

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POLLY BOLTON BAND - Live in Cheltenham, 1992

POLLY BOLTON BAND:

Polly Bolton - vocals

John Shepherd - keyboards and vocals

Steve Dunachie - fiddle

A concert in two sets recorded at the Cheltenham Folk Club, 11 December 1992, very good audience recording. Polly was prey of a big cold that night, but luckily this didn't disturb her vocal rendition!

Not easy to detect each song title, I did my best to give names to as many as possible but some have no title at all, so far at least. 

Therefore, this is a partial list:

. 

 Intro/tuning

 Once I loved a lass 

Sally garden

Down in Yon Forest

John Shepherd's tunes

John Shepherd's song

Searching for lambs??

Died for love

Tunes

Tunes

Spencer the rover

The banks of the Bann

Jingle bang jingle

The lark in the morning

Bonny light horseman

Blackwater side

As usual, I have the habit to cut the spoken/introductory parts out of the real songs, and this concert is no exception.

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VIN GARBUTT - The valley of tees (Trailer, 1972) @320

On its way

This album comes from the collection of a great Friend,

thank you Manila!

LOVE

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DUBLINERS - In concert (Transatlantic, 1964)

LACKEY & SWEENEY - Junk store songs for sale (Village Thing, 1973)

Billy Lackey with his fabulous Gibson J 200, probably  the 1965 issue

PENTANGLE - Live at the BBC, 12 June 1970 (Video, 29 minn.)

Shreds and SVCD rips of this concert have already surfaced here and there on some blogs and on utube, but this is the complete concert, and in perfect video quality.  And a high quality audio as well, recorded on June 12th 1970, the period of "Cruel sister", with great versions of "Light flight", of "Hunting song" (a "13th Century rock'n'roll song", as Bert Jansch describes it) and a splendid combination sitar-banjo on "House carpenter", among the other gems. Maybe not everybody knows that "I've got a feeling" is a song completely based on a piece by Miles Davis, "All blues", which you can find on some of his early CBS LPs, starting from "Kind of blue" (1959). In my opinion, all these songs sound better than the respective originals studio recordings. Shame that this film doesn't even reach a half-n-hour time...

Now, if you take some time to search a bit through the blogs, you'll see some bootlegs around (AUDIO ONLY!) reporting this same BBC concert as recorded in 1971, but the right year is 1970.  Also, you will see that their title list shows SIX songs, while actually we should also consider an incomplete "I got a woman" at the end of the film, which BBC used as a background for the coda titles, therefore we should reckon seven titles all together.

So, always be picking when looking for bootlegs. ;)

For technical reasons I had to split the .avi file in 2 parts.

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