VA — Dust on the Nettles: A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene 1967-72 (2015)
Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, artwork) | 3h 53 min | Genre: Folk, Psychedelic Rock | 542 MB / 1.1 GB
CD1
01. The Pentangle — Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (2:47)
02. Magnet — Willow\’s Song (4:44)
03. Wight — Come All You Travellers (2:37)
04. Spirogyra — Love Is A Funny Thing (2:11)
05. Gary Farr — Images Of Passing Clouds (3:51)
06. Synanthesia — Peek Strangely And Worried Evening (2:48)
07. Bob & Carole Pegg — Glass Of Water (2:17)
08. Vashti Bunyan — Winter Is Blue (2:57)
09. Comus — Winter Is A Coloured Bird (8:00)
10. Chrissie Quayle — The Seagulls Scream (4:04)
11. Clive Palmer — Stories Of Jesus (2:44)
12. Steve Peregrin Took\’s Shagrat — Amanda (3:13)
13. Bridget St. John — Curious Crystals Of Unusual Purity (4:00)
14. Mark Fry — Roses For Columbus (5:19)
15. Dando Shaft — Till The Morning Comes (1:49)
16. Mary-Anne — Black Girl (4:35)
17. Trees — The Garden Of Jane Delawney (4:08)
18. Principal Edwards Magic Theatre — Weirdsong Of Breaking Through At Last (2:58)
19. Oberon — Minas Tirith (8:18)
20. Paper Bubble — Prisoners, Victims, Strangers, Friends (5:15)
CD2
01. Gerald Moore — Pilgrim (4:25)
02. Melton Constable — River Lane (3:54)
03. Moonkyte — Way Out He (4:20)
04. Steeleye Span — All Things Are Quite Silent (2:38)
05. Heron — Upon Reflection (2:38)
06. Parchment — Love Is Come Again (3:43)
07. Shelagh McDonald — Stargazer (4:12)
08. Tony Caro & John — There Are No Greater Heroes (3:46)
09. Joan Armatrading — Visionary Mountains (1:48)
10. Tuesday — Glow Of The Firelight (2:56)
11. Warm Gold — Searching For Lambs (2:18)
12. Benjamin Delaney Lion — Samantha Carol Fragments (4:51)
13. Fairport Convention — Fotheringay (3:06)
14. Frozen Tear — You Know What Has To Be (4:06)
15. Hunt Lunt & Cunningham — Meanwhile Back In The Forest (2:46)
16. Incredible String Band — First Girl I Loved (4:59)
17. The Moths — Halfdan\’s Daughter (2:57)
18. Trader Horne — The Mutant (2:57)
19. Dry Heart — Meeting By The Moonlight Mill (5:51)
20. Tyrannosaurus Rex — Highways (Misty Mist) (1:31)
21. Duncan Browne — Gabilan (4:06)
22. Kevin Coyne — Sand All Yellow (5:44)
CD3
01. Bill Fay — Garden Song (3:04)
02. C.O.B. — Music Of The Ages (3:53)
03. Everyone Involved — A Song For The System (2:56)
04. Country Sun — The Colour Is Blue (2:58)
05. Wild Country — Silent Village (3:52)
06. Marc Brierley — Welcome To The Citadel (4:36)
07. Occasional Word — The Evil Venus Tree (3:44)
08. Anne Briggs — Standing On The Shore (4:34)
09. Agincourt — Kind Sir (3:02)
10. Mick Softley — Eagle (4:14)
11. Fresh Maggots — Rosemary Hill (3:36)
12. Music Box — The Happy King (4:59)
13. Fuchsia — Me And My Kite (2:33)
14. The Sun Also Rises — Wizard Shep (5:04)
15. Folkal Point — Scarborough Fair (3:55)
16. Marie Celeste — Prisoner (3:28)
17. Simon Finn — Patrice (2:50)
18. Shide & Acorn — Girl Of The Cosmos (5:36)
19. Chimera — Elegy To A Dead King (2:16)
20. Beau — Silence Returns (3:43)
21. Mother Nature — Orange Days And Purple Nights (3:58)
With 63 tracks and a total running of just under four hours, Dust On The Nettles examines the metamorphosis that British folk underwent during the late 1960s, when the influence of psychedelia and the counterculture saw the idiom being twisted into all kinds of new and exotic shapes, as the finger-in-the-ear folk clubs of yore were inexorably drawn into a brave new world of Arts Labs, free festivals and the nascent college/university circuit.
Our anthology incorporates the various overlapping strands of the underground folk scene: the acid folk expenters, the folklorists and trad song updaters, the more metaphysical element of the burgeoning singer/songwriter genre, the newlyelectric folk rockers, the elemental paganism exemplified by Comus and The Wicker Man, even the early 1970s Jesus music movement that spawned the likes of the sitar-wielding Parchment.
Balancing the familiar with the obscure, we feature acknowledged brand leaders like Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band, Pentangle and Steeleye Span alongside acts who made music purely for the local communities that nurtured them: Shide & Acorn on the Isle of Wight, Folkal Point in Bristol, Music Box in Coventry, Chrissie Quayle in Cornwall
