Rock & Folk

Tripple Album with the Isle Of Wight festival from 1970 and the second Atlanta Pop Festival also from 1970 which was held in Byron, Georgia - not in Atlanta again. So many great Stars and great songs on 3 records. Fantastic!

Recorded Live At Rock City, Nottingham, November - 1986 Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of All Time, Richard Thompson is also one of the world's most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for Songwriting on both sides of the Atlantic - from the Americana Music Association in Nashville to Britain's BBC Awards and the prestigious Ivor Novello.In 2011, Thompson was the recipient of the OBE (Order of the British Empire) personally bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Most recently, the Americana Music Honors & Awards nominated him for ''Artist of the Year''.

Rock's long and winding road from Woodstock to the waiting room at the doctor's office was paved with '70s staples such as these. "A Horse With No Name" (America), "Summer Breeze" (Seals & Crofts), "Dreams" (Fleetwood Mac), "How Much I Feel" (Ambrosia) – you get the idea. If you want these for home listening as well, there are some advantages to this 16-track compilation. The liner notes are intelligent and informative, and a bit of sly progressivism sneaks in via the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Hot Burrito #1." Other artists include James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and Joe Walsh, as well as vanished easy rockers like Terence Boylan and Jack Tempchin.

"There's something happening here, but you don't know what it is…" 'Weirdlore:Notes From The Folk Underground' 18 exclusive tracks by some of the best artists operating in folk hinterland. "There's something happening here, but you don't know what it is…" said Bob Dylan It's a good starting point for Weirdlore. The clichés about our folk music suggest that if it's not 97-verse traditional ballads about our murderous aristocracy, then it's all jolly milkmaids, foaming nutbrown ale and illegal shagging. Others would have it as some sort of Wicker Man kingdom of haunted pastoral pagan fakelore shading through whimsical singer-songwritery into eccentric steampunk with banjos. Well, it's some of all that and none of that, but there are increasing numbers of musicians and songwriters beyond the mainstream currently taking inspiration from the themes, tunes and musical strangenesses of our roots and making something timelessly new but still distinctly local out of them.