This is from disc 1 of A Parcel Of Steeleye Span-Their First Five Chrysalis Albums 1972-1975.
This is from their 1975 album All Around My Hat. The title song was their highest selling single.

Clifford Village Band From: Leeds, United Kingdom When I saw the Clifford Village Band's name on the Glastonbury ETC list under the folk genre with a song called The Fisherman and I my heart sank. I was, quite understandably I think, expecting a finger in the ear arran sweater enclad homage to the early albums of Fairport Convention or Steeleye Span . Well that's taught me to never prejudge [...]
Deal Gone Done is the first album in a trilogy that was later compiled into a triple cd collection called Dogs Got More Sense: The Decca Years (Bonus Dvd). This box set reissues three Decca albums – Deal Gone Done, Savage Amusement and The Man Who Hated Mornings and also includes a 55 minutes DVD [...]

REPOST from 2008 (with slight updating): - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the moon [...]

It has been a while since the last New York City mix. Depending on how well this one goes down, I think I might have another in me. The photo that illustrates this post comes from a beautiful series of colour photos of New York in the 1940s from the Charles W Cushman collection. TRACKLISTING 1. Conor Oberst - NYC - Gone, Gone (2008) 2. Lou Reed - NYC Man (1996) [...]

"We got into British folk. We started listening to Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Pentangle; those are the three biggies. Strawbs, Amazing Blondel, a lot of more obscure bands: Yellow Autumn, Windy Corner. A lot of Pentangle. I had never listened to that stuff before. Just like before the previous album, I had never checked out Neil Young or Joni Mitchell or anything. So the same thing sort of happened, but with British folk." Tim Smith, Midlake A few weeks back, STACKS' debut column inspired a mini-debate amongst our readers (all two of 'em!) regarding [...]
Darren of the Inveresk Street blog rightly pointed out that most of the musicians who died in 2009 featured in the two previous posts lived to a ripe age. As every year, there were exceptions. Poor Taylor Mitchell, for example, was only 19 and had just released her debut album when she was attacked and killed by coyotes. Others who died young in 2009 included Jeff Hanson (31), Steven Gately (33), guitarist Jack Rose (38), Chris Feinstein of The Cardinals (42), Vic Chesnutt (45), Jay Bennett (45) and, of course, Michael Jackson (50) (EDIT: as well as former [...]

Filed under: News , R.I.P. , UK Tim Hart , a founding member of the British folk revival group Steeleye Span, passed away on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) at his home on La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands. He was 61. Hart had been diagnosed with lung cancer and spent the year in the U.K. undergoing treatment before returning to the island three weeks ago. Born Jan. 9, 1948, Hart held jobs in the '60s as a bookbinder, blacksmith and hospital janitor and [...]

Steeleye Span : The Cutty Wren [ purchase ] There are two ways I can think of to find songs for Solstice. One can look among the works of neo-pagan singer-songwriters. Here you will find many appropriate songs. There are some musical gems, but also a great deal of music that is unlistenable. I am not plugged into this scene, so I don't know how to tell the difference. But, another method should be available. Surely, in places where solstice was once observed, there should be a vast body [...]

Day 29 - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the moon on Christmas Eve, they [...]
This one is for my dear Hedley! MP3 File yousendit
These days, even Transylvanians are sick of vampires, particularly those of the brooding, sexy variety. So we're gonna throw it back to the days of Sabrina the Teenage Witch with a post on all things black cat and pointed hat.Omnia - Wytches' Brew (William Shakespeare)"Double, double, toil and trouble." The three witches who open Macbeth enjoy one of the most famous speeches in history, brewing
This song is from an album called Steeleye Span A Rare Collection: 1972-1996. It is on Raven, an Australian label. The songs are rare lost album cuts, rare B-sides, and odd soundcheck and rehearsal recordings. MP3 File yousendit
This is from their second album together: Folk Songs of Olde England II which was released in 1969. They made three albums together and all three are now available in an album called Heydays . MP3 File yousendit

Traffic : John Barleycorn Must Die [ purchase ] Before I begin, I would like to thank my fellow Star Makers for their help gathering the songs for this post. I could never have done it without you. I am old enough to have heard Traffic's classic John Barleycorn Must Die when it first came out, and young enough to have been a child at the time. My oldest brother brought it home, and made sure I heard it. I made two incorrect assumptions at [...]

Steeleye Span - Live at a Distance Release date: September 15, 2009 [ amazon.com ] You'd think that a forty year-old band would have enough money laying around to hire a designer that wasn't a blind third grader using GIMP - but then again they don't even have an official myspace or even a website.

Warner/Reprise accounted for the second half of 1972 with two more double-LP samplers, both with the variety that characterized the previous offerings. The wide range of musical styles was heightened by the fact that the label also distributed records from other imprints including Bearsville (Foghat), Bizarre (Frank Zappa & the Mothers), Brother (Beach Boys), Capricorn (Allman Brothers), Chrysalis (Jethro Tull), Pentagram, Raccoon and Viva. On Burbank, we got to hear some more rock from Alice Cooper, with "Public Animal #9," some bloozy boogie from Foghat, some New Orleans from The Meters with "Cabbage Alley" and good ol' Arlo [...]