In 2017, Grapefruit released the 3-CD set Milk Of The Tree, a highly-acclaimed compendium of female singer/songwriters active during the late Sixties/early Seventies. Having covered the distaff side of the genre, we now provide a companion piece to that set with Separate Paths Together, a similarly detailed examination of the post-Dylan, pre-punk British male singer/songwriter scene during a time when, to quote the late Dave Cartwright, "a man with a guitar could play to hushed audiences hanging on every word and make a damn good living". As our anthology proves beyond any doubt, the singer/songwriter branch of the Sixties/Seventies rock family tree was rather more eclectic than received wisdom might suggest, housing such disparate bedfellows as Peter Hammill and Gilbert O'Sullivan, Kevin Ayers and Peter Skellern, Richard Thompson and Leo Sayer. In addition to the above names, we feature such key figures from the scene as Al Stewart, Donovan, Ralph McTell, Michael Chapman, John Martyn, Bert Jansch and Gerry Rafferty while also exploring the roads less travelled with a host of more obscure, collector-friendly acts. Housed in suitably evocative artwork and a stylish clamshell box design, Separate Paths Together provides a wide-ranging, four-hour overview of the pop stars, the club folkies, the rock band refugees, the stoned poets, the political agitators, the wry humorists and the bedsit bards that came together to make up a vibrant, multifaceted scene. With a dazzling array of hit singles, key album tracks, cult favourites, buried treasure and glorious one-offs, Separate Paths Together recalls a lost era via tales of love and pain, of childhood memories and adult disillusionment, of beautiful strangers and family men, and, perhaps most poignantly of all, of time past and time passing.

Tracklist:

Journey - Duncan Browne
Girl On A Swing - Kevin Ayers
Poor Ditching Boy - Richard Thompson
The Cause Is Good - Clifford T. Ward
It's All Up To You - Jim Capaldi
Don't Count Me Out - Gerry Rafferty
Mad Boy - Kevin Coyne
Sweet Little Fat Girl - Harvey Andrews
Paper And Smoke - Mike Cooper
The Fawn - Keith Christmas
The Survivor - Ian A. Anderson
I Don't Know - Dave Ellis
Hold On To Love - Peter Skellern
Audrey - Mike Heron
Easy To Slip Away - Peter Hammill
For Your Love - Graham Gouldman
Maybe That's The Way - Ray Dorset
Beware Of The Beautiful
Stranger - Pete Atkin
California Sun - Eddie Hardin
The Bells Of St. Mary's -Leo Sayer
Red Lady - Phil Cordell
The Days Of Pearly Spencer - David Mcwilliams
You Should Have Listened To Al - Al Stewart
May You Never - John Martyn
I Really Wanted You - Steve Tilston
Say It Ain't So Joe - Murray Head
Family Man - John Howard
Two Weeks Last Summer -Dave Cousins
Tell Me What Is True Love? - Bert Jansch
All Around My Grandmother's
Floor - Andy Roberts
Two Separate Paths Together - Gary Farr
Frozen Orange Juice - Peter Sarstedt
When I Leave Berlin - Wizz Jones
Jesus Christ Junior - Patrick Campbell-Lyons
There Once Was A Time - Beau
Love Owed - Meic Stevens
Frankie Joes - Jimmy Campbell
Song For Susan - Dave Cartwright
Postcards Of Scarborough - Michael Chapman
Daddy's Here - Ralph Mctell
Dark And Devil Waters - Mick Audsley
She's That Kind Of Woman - John Williams
My Friend Upon The Road - Richard Digance
Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'sullivan
One Of Those Days - Steve Gibbons
Jeffrey Don't You Touch - Al Jones
Welcome To The Citadel - Marc Brierley
Miss Swiss - Bryn Haworth
Thought Of You Instead - Stephen Jameson
Caravan - Mick Softley
Country Joe - Jackie Mcauley
Inside A Hole - Dave Bundy
Soliloquy - Bob Bunting
Disbelief Blues - Mike Hart
One Sunday Morning - Paul Brett
Naked Fingers - Chris Baker
What You Gonna Do Now? - Keith Riley
Sing Us One Of Your Songs May
(Demo Version) - Bill Fay
Jewel - John Pantry
Fox On The Run - Tony Hazzard
Love, Love, Love - Crispian St. Peters
The Swan - Jona Lewie
Reach Out For Each Other - Phillip Goodhand-Tait
So Weary - Dave Morgan
Wake Up - Gerald Thomas Moore
Turquoise - Donovan

UPC: 5013929189607
Label: Grapefruit
Release Date: 8.13.21
Format: CD

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