(2022) VA – Before the Day Is Done: The Story of Folk Heritage Records 1968-1975
Review: 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 its 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 its 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 its 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). The first anthology of Alan Green’s small but prolific cottage-industry empire since a 1973 budget label vinyl LP, ‘Before the Day Is Done’ is the definitive overview of a much-loved but little- documented label. — cherryred.co.uk
Track List:
Disc 1 01. Music Box - Songs of Sunshine 02. Christie Hennessy - High in the Trees 03. Joan Mills - Death and the Lady 04. Penny Wager - Marcie 05. Folkal Point - Sweet Sir Galahad 06. Mike Donald - Visions of Cumbria 07. Blue Horizon - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye 08. Porter Cunningham - Photographs 09. Peregrine - Lazy Day 10. The Harvesters - She Moved Through the Fair 11. The Yardarm - Cold Haily Rainy Night 12. Janet Jones - The Old Woman's Lament 13. Spinning Jenny - Butcher Boy 14. The Oldest Proffession - Anathea 15. The Combine Harvester - Fanny Blair 16. Gallery - Queen of Hearts 17. The Jovial Crew - The Two Butchers 18. The Young Folk - You Keep Going Your Way 19. Margaret and Ian - You Were There 20. Drowsy Maggie - Three Drunkem Maidens 21. Saraband - Retrospect 22. Geoff Smedley - Hedgehog's Song 23. John & Christine - Oats and Beans;Turkey Rhubarb 24. The Taverners Folk Group - The Hard Times of Old England
Disc 2 01. The Wayfarers - Matty Groves 02. Parke - Dancers of Stanton Drew 03. The Minor Birds - Lord Lovell 04. Paul & Glen - January Man 05. The Pendlefolk - Old Pendle 06. Mabel Joy - Geraldine 07. Saga - Yesterday's Rain 08. The Blue Water Folk - Lark in the Morning 09. The Macdonald Folk Group - April Come She Will 10. Stained Glass - Wild and Free 11. Rosemary Hardman - Pretty Saro 12. Horden Raikes - The Two Magicians 13. Mike Donald - Land of the Old and Grey 14. The Bards - Blackleg Miner 15. The Yardarm - Summer Comes October 16. Joan Mills - Twenty Years 17. The Young Folk - Travelling People 18. Hugh Trethowan - Mice and Old Clocks 19. Jack Hudson - 4 + 20 20. Folkways - Cannily Cannily 21. The Oldest Proffession - The Female Drummer 22. Peregrine - All Through the Night 23. Gallery - Ice Acres
Disc 3 01. Saraband - Close to It All 02. Raggerty - Take Me for Your Friend 03. Spinning Jenny - Connemara Cradle Song 04. The Minor Birds - Grey October 05. Parke - The Trees They Do Grow High 06. Saga - Ballad of a Falmouth Man 07. The Harvesters - False Bride 08. Rod Neep - Heading for the Sun 09. Oddsocks - Oh So Nice 10. Stuart Marson - Christmas and Tchaikovsky 11. Dave Lewry - All I Wanna Do Is Play Guitar 12. Jancis Harvey - A Week Before Easter 13. Steve Rostron - Snail 14. The Mug Band - What's the Point 15. Brian Dewhurst - The White Hare of Oldham 16. The Bards - Elizabethan 17. Stained Glass - Poll Miles 18. The Macdonald Folk Group - Cruel War 19. Folkal Point - Once I Knew a Pretty Girl 20. Penny Wager - I'll Keep It with Mine 21. The Blue Water Folk - All the Good Times
Media Report: Genre: british folk, folk-rock Country: UK Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits
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