New Album Releases: BEFORE THE DAY IS DONE - THE STORY OF FOLK HERITAGE RECORDS 1968-1975 (Various Artists)

Artist:
Various Artists

Genre:
Pop/Rock
Folk
British Folk

Total Time:
03:56:43

Record Label:
Grapefruit Records/Cherry Red Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, Apple Music

Release Date
August 19, 2022

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Product Description: Two CD anthology of the fiercely-collected Folk Heritage label and related satellites/ spin-offs. Four-hour compilation featuring tracks from some of the most valuable British folk albums of the early 70s. Third instalment of Grapefruit's underground British folk triptych that started with much- acclaimed releases 'Dust On The Nettles' and 'Sumer Is Icumen In'. Founded in the Greater Manchester area in 1968 by the late Alan Green, the Folk Heritage label and it's subsequent associated imprints - Midas, Sweet Folk & Country, Westwood, Real - was an obscure but dedicated home for the grass-roots element of the British folk boom. Throughout the 70s, Folk Heritage and it's offshoots released limited-edition pressings of albums by various bands and singers, most of whom were active on the thriving north-west England folk club circuit. With most releases limited to 200 copies or less, and only available from the folk club where the performer was resident, many of the albums have gone on to become hugely collectable. Before The Day Is Done assembles the cream of the label's roster during it's late 60s/early 70s heyday. It features tracks from the rarest, most valuable releases, including legendary-among-collectors names like Gallery, The Oldest Proffession, Folkal Point, The Minor Birds, Mike Raven/Joan Mills and Spinning Jenny. Folk club stalwarts like The Taverners, Rosie Hardman and The Harvesters are also represented, while there's also space for bands of a more folk-rock persuasion (Saraband, Stained Glass, Music Box) and acoustic guitar-wielding singer-songwriters (Christie Hennessy, Janet Jones, Jancis Harvey, Stuart Marson, etc).

TRACK LIST:

Disc: 1

1 . Songs of Sunshine - Music Box

2 . High in the Trees - Christie Hennessy

3 . Death and the Lady - Michael Raven and Joan Mills

4 . Marcie - Penny Wager

5 . Sweet Sir Galahad - Folkal Point

6 . Visions of Cumbria - Mike Donald

7 . Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Blue Horizon

8 . Photographs - Porter Cunningham

9 . Lazy Day - Peregrine

10 . She Moved Through the Fair - the Harvesters

11 . Cold Haily Rainy Night - the Yardarm

12 . The Old Woman's Lament - Janet Jones

13 . Butcher Boy - Spinning Jenny

14 . Anathea - the Oldest Proffession

15 . Fanny Blair - the Combine Harvester

16 . Queen of Hearts - Gallery

17 . The Two Butchers - the Jovial Crew

18 . You Keep Going Your Way - the Young Folk

19 . You Were There - Margaret and Ian

20 . Three Drunken Maidens - Drowsy Maggie

21 . Retrospect - Saraband

22 . Hedgehog's Song - Geoff Smedley

23 . Oats and Beans/Turkey Rhubarb - John and Christine

24 . Hard Times of Old England - the Taverners Folk Group

Disc: 2

1 . Matty Groves - the Wayfarers

2 . Dancers of Stanton Drew - Parke

3 . Lord Lovell - the Minor Birds

4 . January Man - Paul and Glen

5 . Old Pendle - the Pendlefolk

6 . Geraldine - Mabel Joy

7 . Yesterday's Rain - Saga

8 . Lark in the Morning - the Blue Water Folk

9 . April Come She Will - the MacDonald Folk Group

10 . Wild and Free - Stained Glass

11 . Pretty Saro - Rosemary Hardman

12 . The Two Magicians - Horden Raikes

13 . Land of the Old and Grey - Mike Donald

14 . Blackleg Miner - the Bards

15 . Summer Comes October (Aka the Long and Lonely Winter) - the Yardarm

16 . Twenty Years - Michael Raven and Joan Mills

17 . Travelling People - the Young Folk

18 . Mice and Old Clocks - Friends O'Mine

19 . 4 .+ 20 .- Jack Hudson

20 . Cannily Cannily - Folkways

21 . The Female Drummer - the Oldest Proffession

22 . All Through the Night - Peregrine

23 . Icy Acres - Gallery

Disc: 3

1 . Close to It All - Saraband

2 . Take Me for Your Friend - Raggerty

3 . Connemara Cradle Song - Spinning Jenny

4 . Grey October - the Minor Birds

5 . The Trees They Do Grow High - Parke

6 . Ballad of a Falmouth Man - Saga

7 . The False Bride - the Harvesters

8 . Heading for the Sun - Rod Neep

9 . Oh So Nice - Oddsocks

10 . Christmas and Tchaikovsky - Stuart Marson

11 . All I Wanna Do Is Play Guitar - Dave Lewry

12 . A Week Before Easter - Jancis Harvey

13 . Snail - Steve Rostron

14 . What's the Point - the Mug Band

15 . The White Hare of Oldham - Brian Dewhurst

& Tom Tiddler's Ground 16 . Elizabethan - the Bards

17 . Poll Miles - Stained Glass

18 . Cruel War - the MacDonald Folk Group

19 . Once I Knew a Pretty Girl - Folkal Point

20 . I'll Keep It with Mine - Penny Wager

21 . All the Good Times - the Blue Water Folk

Before The Day Is Done The Story Of Folk Heritage Records 1968 1975

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