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(ACE Records) 18 tracks Compiled by Bob Stanley to document the acid-folk scene, “Gather In The... more

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Various: Gather In The Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969 - 1975 (CD)

(ACE Records) 18 tracks

Compiled by Bob Stanley to document the acid-folk scene, “Gather In The Mushrooms” was first issued as a CD-only release on Sanctuary in 2004; it proved so popular that a sequel entitled “Early Morning Hush” followed two years later.

This reissue of “Gather In The Mushrooms” contains the best of both long out-of-print compilations with a few additions - COB, Roy Harper, Fotheringay - that were not available to Sanctuary at the time. Although non-traditional, these songs have an authenticity, an autumnal atmosphere and a naivety of their own that proved influential in the neo-folk boom of the 00s (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Alasdair Roberts, Tunng et al) but impossible to replicate. For many of these artists, folk music and the hippie world that surrounded it was a way of life in the late 60s, a way of escaping the Vietnam War, the Angry Brigade and the three-day week of the early 70s. Anne Briggs lived in a caravan in Suffolk, Shelagh McDonald lived in a tent, Vashti Bunyan went without electricity; they were not part-timers. When we listen to “Gather In The Mushrooms”, we are transported to a time when no one used the term “post-modernist”.

This may not have gone down well with die-hard political folkies, but more than five decades later, this music sounds very much like an England of yore - not necessarily an England of poachers and peddlers, but an England of long-haired youths in tie-dyed T-shirts, of bikers and hippies, of acoustic guitars in white stone houses. Groups like Stone Angel (bonus track, LP version only), Midwinter and Oberon made primitive, privately recorded folk albums; today they sound as distant and mystical as Alan Lomax's field recordings. The sincerity and folk savvy of a group like Forest become irrelevant once you hear something as eerie and evocative as “Graveyard”. Homemade, homely, warm as soup or cool as hoarfrost, this is music of innocence and rare beauty.

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Interpret: Various
Album titlle: Gather In The Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969 - 1975 (CD)
Genre Folk
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667112925
weight in Kg 0.11

Various - Gather In The Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969 - 1975 (CD) CD 1
01	Corn Riggs	Magnet & Paul Giovanni
02	Morning Way	Trader Horne
03	Nottanum Town	Oberon
04	Graveyard	Forest
05	The Skater	Midwinter
06	Winter Winds	Fotheringay
07	Lord And Master	Heron
08	Fly High	Bridget St John
09	Sheep Season	Mellow Candle
10	The Seagulls Scream	Christine Quayle
11	Forest And The Shore	Keith Christmas
12	Rosemary Hill	Fresh Maggots
13	Fine Horseman	Anne Briggs
14	The Werewolf	Barry Dransfield
15	Another Day	Roy Harper
16	Window Over The Bay	Vashti Bunyan
17	Eleven Willows	Cob (Clive's Original Band)
18	The Herald	Comus