Brian Eno: Discreet Music (1975)
Pour down like silver. What an apropos name for whatever the hell was going on in classic English folk and folk-rock music…
December 14, 2014
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Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn (1975)
Mike Oldfield – 1974 “The end of the first side of Ommadawn is the sound of me exploding from my mother’s vagina.”…
December 12, 2014
Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge (1974)
Mike Oldfield The exploration and deconstruction of English folk music seemed to be the path needed to be taken by new neo-folk…
December 11, 2014
Gryphon: Checkmate (1974)
Gryphon – 1974 The further we head down this neo-folk decade the more strained the strands holding it to the base become.…
December 10, 2014
Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
Richard and Linda Thompson There’s something about the year 1974 that will trigger a sea change in the English musical landscape. A…
December 9, 2014
Shirley Collins: Adieu to Old England (1974)
What a weird time its must have been for England in 1974. It was during this year that the IRA started to…
December 8, 2014
Bert Jansch: Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning (1974)
Bert Jansch – 1974 Sometimes you need a bit o’ change to right a trajectory. By 1974, many of the great English…
December 7, 2014
Alan Stivell: Brezhoneg Raok (1973)
Alan Stivell and bombard. Finishing off what he hinted at in his previous album, yesterday’s A L’Olympia, Alan decided to commit to…
December 6, 2014
Alan Stivell: Tri Martolod (1972)
Alan Stivell – 1972 When we last left off Alan Stivell he was breathing new life into a genre threatened to be…
December 5, 2014
Clannad: Siúbhán Ní Dhuibhir (1973)
Clannad In this brief sojourn to Ireland, for some neo-folk goodies, lets not forget a true behemoth of Celtic music: Clannad. Now…
December 4, 2014
Planxty: The West Coast of Clare (1973)
Planxty As we continue to flesh out England’s neo-folk lineage it becomes ever more important to visit their Irish brethren. A brief…
December 3, 2014
Horslips: Dearg Doom (1973)
Horslips Can you almost feel the finish line? Allow me to go back a year, to a year 1973, when another band…
December 2, 2014