January 2015
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Duncan Browne – 1978 Someone who turned to many places and never found the audience he merited was Duncan Browne. When we last left him in 1973, he had released one of the most sophisticated neoclassical folk albums ever. Neo-Romantic but modern, perhaps too modern for its day that self-titled release languished in the forgotten…
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The Bothy Band – 1977 Where do we turn next? That’s the question I imagine many new breed neo-folk musicians were asking themselves then. The rise of Punk, Metal, and New Wave groups, coupled with the further fragmentation of Rhythm away from Blues had many musicians searching for a way to go forward. Take a…
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John Martyn – 1977 Talk about a meeting of worlds. At the intersection of Echo and Delay, in 1977 met John Martyn and Lee “Scratch” Perry. By then, they had treated listeners from both of their traditions to mind expanding sounds that stretched and blurred the lines of roots music. In England, John’s treatment of…
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