Blog: Strangeglue

In the time since I first heard Espers and shrugged them off as twee folksy flouncers I have experienced a sudden connection with the late sixties through early seventies British folk-rock that so many link this band to. Richard & Linda Thompson, Fairport, Sandy Denny, Fotheringay… Okay, so my remit is still pretty narrow, circling around a handful of musicians who were certainly not the be all and end all of my ancestral folk-rock, but the fact remains that a genre I once thought ridiculous has become a staple of my listening.