The
Best Folk Album in The World...Ever!
Various Artists
EMI
Gold 7243 5 77114 2 5
Release
Date: 19 April 2004
Well,
with The Fivepenny Piece on it, it's
got to be the best, hasn't it! But any album
with that title is going to have an impossible
task to live up to its name. However, this is
an interesting and eclectic compilation which
should appeal to a lot of people - and at only
around £6.99 for a double CD with 40 tracks,
it's right good value. While
it includes tracks by many stalwarts of the
folk scene: Richard Thompson, The Corries, Bert
Jansch, The Dubliners, to name just a few; a
few eyebrows might be raised at the inclusion
of Jethro Tull, The Band and Jeff Beck!
The
tracks date from the 1960s right up to the present,
and some classic tracks are included as well
as many lesser-known ones. It's also great to
see some perhaps less widely-known artists of
the calibre of Leo Kottke, Dory Previn, and
Loudon Wainwright III represented, too. The
Houghton Weavers also appear - a pity it's the
Rose of Tralee rather than a proper Lanky track,
but you can't have it all!
It is hoped that the inclusion of Watercolour
Morning on this album helps to raise
the Fivepenny Piece's profile with the listening
public, and put more weight behind our campaign
to get EMI to release the rest of the band's
back catalogue!
Disc
1
- Where
Have All The Flowers Gone? (The Kingston Trio)
- Catch
The Wind (Donovan)
- Early
Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
- Blowin'
In The Wind (The Seekers)
- Homeward
Bound (Peter & Gordon)
- December
Dream (The Stone Poneys)
- Everybody's
Talkin' (Fred Neil)
- Seven
Drunken Nights (The Dubliners)
- I
Shall Be Released (The Band)
- Greensleeves
(Jeff Beck)
- Where
Do You Go To My Lovely (Peter Sarstedt)
- A
Foresaking - Our Captain Cried (Shirley &
Dolly Collins)
- Willard
(John Stewart)
- The
Iron Maiden (Barclay James Harvest)
- Lady
Elenore (Lindisfarne)
- Mythical
Kings & Iguanas (Dory Previn)
- Poor
Boy (Leo Kottke)
- Love
Song To A Girl In An Old Photo (Artie Traum)
- The
Highway Kind (Townes Van Zandt)
- Thick
As A Brick Edit No. 1 (Jethro Tull)
Disc
2
- Folk
Song (David Gray)
- The
Money Game (Alan Hull)
- The
Picture (Loudon Wainwright III)
- The
Stolen Child (The Waterboys)
- She
Moved Through The Fair (Feargal Sharkey)
- Maybe
It's Imaginary (Kirsty MacColl)
- Year
Of The Cat (Al Stewart)
- Bye
Bye Baby (McGuinn, Clark & Hillman)
- Nightingale
(Clifford T Ward)
- Guantanamera
(The Spinners)
- All
Around My Hat (Steeleye Span)
- The
Isle Of Skye (The Corries)
- Blues
Run The Game (Bert Jansch)
- Watercolour
Morning (The Fivepenny Piece)
- Poor
Old Horse (The Albion)
- Rose
of Tralee (The Houghton Weavers)
- Scarborough
Fair (Joaquim Sanchez & The Pipes Of The Enamorates)
- A
Sailor's Life (Sheila Chandra)
- Le
Valse Des Belugas (La Bottine Souriante)
- Jimmy
Shands (Richard Thompson)
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