UK three CD collection housed in a clam box featuring a lavishly illustrated and annotated 36-page booklet. Full title - Dust On The Nettles: A Journey Through The British Underground Folk Scene 1967-1972. With 63 tracks and a total running time 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. This anthology incorporates the various overlapping strands of the underground folk scene: the acid folk experimenters, the folklorists and traditional song updaters, the more metaphysical element of the burgeoning singer/songwriter genre, the newly-electric 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, this set features 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. Dust In The Nettles incorporate a large number of recordings that weren't issued at the time, sample impossibly rare albums by the likes of Oberon, Dry Heart and Benjamin Delaney Lion, and feature key recordings from a number of bands who underpinned the thriving live scene of the era.

Tracklist:

Let No Man Steal Your Thyme - the Pentangle
Willow's Song (From the Wicker Man) - Magnet
Come All You Travellers - Wight
Love Is a Funny Thing - Spirogyra
Images of Passing Clouds - Gary Farr
Peek Strangely and Worried Evening - Synanthesia
Glass of Water - Bob ; Carole Pegg
Winter Is Blue - Vashti Bunyan
Winter Is a Coloured Bird - Comus 1
The Seagulls Scream - Chrissie Quayle 1
Stories of Jesus - Clive Palmer 1
Amanda - Steve Peregrin Took's Shagrat 1
Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity - Bridget St. John 1
Roses for Columbus - Mark Fry 1
Till the Morning Comes - Dando Shaft 1
Black Girl - Mary-Anne 1
The Garden of Jane Delawney - Trees 1
Weirdsong of Breaking Through at Last - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre 1
Minas Tirith - Oberon 2
Prisoners, Victims, Strangers, Friends - Paper Bubble 2
Pilgrim - Gerald Moore 2
River Lane - Melton Constable 2
Way Out Hermit - Moonkyte 2
All Things Are Quite Silent - Steeleye Span 2
Upon Reflection - Heron 2
Love Is Come Again - Parchment 2
Stargazer - Shelagh McDonald 2
There Are No Greater Heroes - Tony Caro ; John 2
Visionary Mountains - Joan Armatrading 3
Glow of the Firelight - Tuesday 3
Searching for Lambs - Warm Gold 3
Samantha Carol Fragments - Benjamin Delaney Lion 3
Fotheringay - Fairport Convention 3
You Know What Has to Be - Frozen Tear 3
Meanwhile Back in the Forest - Hunt Lunt ; Cunningham 3
First Girl I Loved - the Incredible String Band 3
Halfdan's Daughter - the Moths 3
The Mutant - Trader Horne 3
Meeting By the Moonlight Mill - Dry Heart 4
Highways (Misty Mist) - Tyrannosaurus Rex 4
Gabilan - Duncan Browne 4
Sand All Yellow - Kevin Coyne 4
Garden Song - Bill Fay 4
Music of the Ages - C.O.B 4
A Song for the System - Everyone Involved 4
The Colour Is Blue - Country Sun 4
Silent Village - Wild Country 4
Welcome to the Citadel - Marc Brierley 4
The Evil Venus Tree - the Occasional Word 5
Standing on the Shore - Anne Briggs 5
Kind Sir - Agincourt 5
Eagle - Mick Softly 5
Rosemary Hill - Fresh Maggots 5
The Happy King - Music Box 5
Me and My Kite - Fuchsia 5
Wizard Shep - the Sun Also Rises 5
Scarborough Fair - Folkal Point 5
Prisoner - Marie Celeste 5
Patrice - Simon Finn 6
Girl of the Cosmos - Shide ; Acorn 6
Elegy to a Dead King - Chimera 6
Silence Returns - Beau 6
Orange Days and Purple Nights - Mother Nature

UPC: 5013929183001
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 7.7.15
Format: CD

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