Three-disc, 64-track collection. The folk revival that took place at club level during the Sixties introduced a whole new audience to traditional folksong, while also bringing to the fore the concept of the earnest young singer/songwriter. When, by the end of the decade, centuries-old songs were being given a sonic makeover by the new breed of electric folkies (headed by the likes of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, both of whom are represented on this collection), folk music had long since escaped out of the clubs and into the charts. This companion piece to similar 3CD sets concentrating on the Irish and Scottish folk scenes focuses on the astonishing depth of talent emanating from the English folk scene during this most tumultuous of decades. Every facet of the English folk genre is encompassed, ranging from club singers and trad folksong revivalists like Isla Cameron and Shirley Collins, the post-Dylan singer/songwriter (Donovan, Ralph McTell), folk-based fusion act Pentangle, and even such turn-of-the-decade acid folk iconoclasts as Synathesia and the mighty Comus.



Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Mr. Fox - Join Us In Our Game (02:56)
02. Isla Cameron - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (01:38)
03. Martin Carthy - I was a Young Man (02:42)
04. Dave & Toni Arthur - A Maiden Came From London Town (01:25)
05. Bert Jansch - Nottamun Town (04:33)
06. John Renbourn - The Trees They Do Grow High (03:34)
07. Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street (02:56)
08. Lonnie Donegan - Farewell (Fare Thee Well) (03:21)
09. Ralph Mc Tell - England 1914 (03:06)
10. Michael Chapman - Wrecked Again (04:18)
11. Sandy Denny - Pretty Polly (02:59)
12. Jean Hart - She Moved Through The Fair (02:16)
13. Lal & Mike Waterson - Rubber Band (02:58)
14. Sallyangie - Banquet On The Water (04:45)
15. Heron - Yellow Roses (04:07)
16. Duncan Browne - Gabilan (04:06)
17. Keith Christmas - Evensong (04:28)
18. Comus - Winter Is A Coloured Bird (08:01)
19. Shirley Collins & The Albion Band - Poor Murdered Woman (04:19)
20. Dave Swarbrick - Grey Daylight / The Hawk / Ten Pound Fiddle (01:46)
21. Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - Dalesman's Litany (04:51)
22. Dave Cartwright - England (04:03)

CD2:

01. Pentangle - A Maid That's Deep In Love (05:31)
02. Young Tradition - John Barleycorn (02:26)
03. Al Jones - Tramp (02:34)
04. Harvey Andrews - Mr Homburg Hat (02:50)
05. John James - Morning Brings The Light (04:31)
06. Trader Horne - Velvet To Atone (02:28)
07. Carolanne Pegg - The Mouse and The Crow (02:53)
08. Mike Cooper - Do I Know You? (04:07)
09. Alan Hull - We Can Swing Together (03:29)
10. Robin Scott - The Sailor (03:55)
11. Cliff Aungier - Beet Routes (03:01)
12. Sawdust Band - Three Waltzes (03:24)
13. Andy Roberts - The One Armed Boatman and The Giant Squid (05:57)
14. Bob Bunting - Dulwich Song (03:50)
15. Dave Sless - Geordie (04:10)
16. Marc Brierley - Time For Love (03:15)
17. Albion Band - Rambling Sailor (03:20)
18. Dransfields - Ballad of Dickie Lubber (04:37)
19. Prelude - Beauty of The World (02:08)
20. Bernard Wrigley - Yorkshire Lass (02:46)
21. Richard Digance - Dear River Thames (02:58)
22. Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens (03:51)

CD3:

01. Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith (04:46)
02. The Etchingham Steam Band - Mistress Helath/Lumps Of Plum Pudding/Sherbourne Jig/Spaniards City (03:22)
03. Royston & Heather Wood - A Shepherd Of The Downs (05:07)
04. Spirogyra - An Everyday Consumption Song (04:28)
05. The Incredible String Band - Oh Did I Love A Dream (04:31)
06. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Sarah Crazy Child (03:13)
07. Decameron - Parade (05:04)
08. Steve Tilson - City Life (04:30)
09. The Black Country Three - Buttermilk Hill (01:46)
10. Ian Campbell Folk Group - Liverpool Lullaby (02:21)
11. The Spinners - Scarborough Fair (04:09)
12. Lea Nicholson & Stan Ellison - Song For A Dead Mole (03:59)
13. Bob Pegg & Nick Strutt - Kirkstall Forge (04:37)
14. Storyteller - Laugh That Came Too Soon (02:45)
15. Gryphon - The Unquiet Grave (05:43)
16. Gordon Giltrap - Won't You Stay Awhile Suzanne? (02:34)
17. Andrew Cronshaw - Lovely Joan/The Nightingale (02:41)
18. Brenda Wooton - Cornwall The Land I Love (03:37)
19. Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor (Live) (04:32)
20. Synanthesia - Just As The Curtains Finally Falls (05:08)