So let’s have some music from what I consider the best electrified folk band that Great Britain ever produced, Steeleye Span. Over forty years of live performances have produced a treasure trove of excellent soundboard recordings.
Let’s start off with a perennial favourite of fans:‘One Misty Moisty Morning’M as performed at Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival, August of 2006.
Next is ‘Long Lankin’ from the same festival. Lovely, isn’t it?
From a 1973 concert comes a tune, ‘Robbery With Violins’, which was composed by violinist Peter Knight who left the band (again) this past year.
If you’re one of those neo-pagan witches, you won’t like the next cut, ‘Alison Gross’ which is a Child Ballad that tells the tale of ‘the ugliest witch in the north country’. I however think it’s a splendid song.
Let’s finish off with another Child Ballad, ‘Tam Lin’.
The photo is of the current lineup of Maddy Prior, Rick Kemp, Liam Genockey, Pete Zorn, Julian Littman and Jessie May Smart.
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