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Various - Before the Day Is Done: Story of Folk Heritage [CD]

Before the Day Is Done: Story of Folk Heritage
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First-ever CD anthology of the fiercely-collected Folk Heritage label and related satellites/ spin-offs. Four-hour compilation featuring tracks from some of the most valuable British folk albums of the early 70s. Third instalment of Grapefruit's underground British folk triptych that started with much- acclaimed releases 'Dust On The Nettles' and 'Sumer Is Icumen In'. Founded in the Greater Manchester area in 1968 by the late Alan Green, the Folk Heritage label and it's subsequent associated imprints - Midas, Sweet Folk & Country, Westwood, Real - was an obscure but dedicated home for the grass-roots element of the British folk boom. Throughout the 70s, Folk Heritage and it's offshoots released limited-edition pressings of albums by various bands and singers, most of whom were active on the thriving north-west England folk club circuit. With most releases limited to 200 copies or less, and only available from the folk club where the performer was resident, many of the albums have gone on to become hugely collectable. 'Before The Day Is Done' assembles the cream of the label's roster during it's late 60s/early 70s heyday. It features tracks from the rarest, most valuable releases, including legendary-among-collectors names like Gallery, The Oldest Proffession, Folkal Point, The Minor Birds, Mike Raven/Joan Mills and Spinning Jenny. Folk club stalwarts like The Taverners, Rosie Hardman and The Harvesters are also represented, while there's also space for bands of a more folk-rock persuasion (Saraband, Stained Glass, Music Box) and acoustic guitar-wielding singer-songwriters (Christie Hennessy, Janet Jones, Jancis Harvey, Stuart Marson, etc). The first anthology of Alan Green's small but prolific cottage-industry empire since a 1973 budget label vinyl LP, 'Before The Day Is Done' is the definitive overview of a much-loved but little- documented label. Housed in a stylish clamshell box, it includes a 48-page booklet with rare photos, quotes and potted biographies of all featured acts

Tracklist:

  1. Songs of Sunshine - Music Box
  2. High in the Trees - Christie Hennessy
  3. Death and the Lady - Michael Raven and Joan Mills
  4. Marcie - Penny Wager
  5. Sweet Sir Galahad - Folkal Point
  6. Visions of Cumbria - Mike Donald
  7. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Blue Horizon
  8. Photographs - Porter Cunningham
  9. Lazy Day - Peregrine
  10. She Moved Through the Fair - the Harvesters
  11. Cold Haily Rainy Night - the Yardarm
  12. The Old Woman's Lament - Janet Jones
  13. Butcher Boy - Spinning Jenny
  14. Anathea - the Oldest Proffession
  15. Fanny Blair - the Combine Harvester
  16. Queen of Hearts - Gallery
  17. The Two Butchers - the Jovial Crew
  18. You Keep Going Your Way - the Young Folk
  19. You Were There - Margaret and Ian
  20. Three Drunken Maidens - Drowsy Maggie
  21. Retrospect - Saraband
  22. Hedgehog's Song - Geoff Smedley
  23. Oats and Beans/Turkey Rhubarb - John and Christine
  24. Hard Times of Old England - the Taverners Folk Group
  25. Matty Groves - the Wayfarers
  26. Dancers of Stanton Drew - Parke
  27. Lord Lovell - the Minor Birds
  28. January Man - Paul and Glen
  29. Old Pendle - the Pendlefolk
  30. Geraldine - Mabel Joy
  31. Yesterday's Rain - Saga
  32. Lark in the Morning - the Blue Water Folk
  33. April Come She Will - the MacDonald Folk Group
  34. Wild and Free - Stained Glass
  35. Pretty Saro - Rosemary Hardman
  36. The Two Magicians - Horden Raikes
  37. Land of the Old and Grey - Mike Donald
  38. Blackleg Miner - the Bards
  39. Summer Comes October (Aka the Long and Lonely Winter) - the Yardarm
  40. Twenty Years - Michael Raven and Joan Mills
  41. Travelling People - the Young Folk
  42. Mice and Old Clocks - Friends O'Mine
  43. 4 + 20 - Jack Hudson
  44. Cannily Cannily - Folkways
  45. The Female Drummer - the Oldest Proffession
  46. All Through the Night - Peregrine
  47. Icy Acres - Gallery
  48. Close to It All - Saraband
  49. Take Me for Your Friend - Raggerty
  50. Connemara Cradle Song - Spinning Jenny
  51. Grey October - the Minor Birds
  52. The Trees They Do Grow High - Parke
  53. Ballad of a Falmouth Man - Saga
  54. The False Bride - the Harvesters
  55. Heading for the Sun - Rod Neep
  56. Oh So Nice - Oddsocks
  57. Christmas and Tchaikovsky - Stuart Marson
  58. All I Wanna Do Is Play Guitar - Dave Lewry
  59. A Week Before Easter - Jancis Harvey
  60. Snail - Steve Rostron
  61. What's the Point - the Mug Band
  62. The White Hare of Oldham - Brian Dewhurst ; Tom Tiddler's Ground
  63. Elizabethan - the Bards
  64. Poll Miles - Stained Glass
  65. Cruel War - the MacDonald Folk Group
  66. Once I Knew a Pretty Girl - Folkal Point
  67. I'll Keep It with Mine - Penny Wager
  68. All the Good Times - the Blue Water Folk

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