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Sandy Denny - The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities (2012) {4CD Set Island 371 246-9 rec 1966-1978}
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© 1966-78, 2012 Universal Island | 371 246-9
Folk / Acoustic / British Folk / Folk Rock

2010's mammoth, highly collectible and very limited, 19-disc Sandy Denny box set was truly a thing to behold, presenting the entirety of her career from studio to stage to front porch. It was a completist's dream, but it came with an exceptionally high price tag, which makes the appearance of 2011's Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities a real gift for fans, especially those who already own the complete studio recordings, whether solo or with Fotheringay, Strawbs, or Fairport Convention. The handsome, limited-edition four-disc box skims the cream from the top of the myriad rarities, BBC sessions, demos, and outtakes that made the previous collection so remarkable (an intimate bedroom recording of Jackson C. Frank's "Blues Run the Game"; an early demo of Like an Old Fashioned Waltz's "Carnival" with previously unheard melodies and lyrics; a blistering alternate studio take of a Dave Swarbrick-less "Sailor's Life," and alternate versions of Fairport classics like "Matty Groves," "Come All Ye," and "Fotheringay"), resulting in a wonderful window into one of English folk music's most magnificent voices.

Billy Bragg & Joe Henry - Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad (2016) {Cooking Vinyl COOKCD623}
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© 2016 Billy Bragg / Cooking Vinyl | COOKCD623
Acoustic / Folk / Blues / Americana

In March 2016 Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles-bound train at Chicago’s Union Station looking to reconnect with the culture of American railroad travel and the music it inspired. Winding along 2,728 miles of track over four days, the pair recorded classic railroad songs in waiting rooms and at trackside while the train paused to pick up passengers.

Various Artists - The Folk Years (2003) {3CD Set TimeLife-Warner M18942G rec 1957-1969}
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© 1957-69, 2003 TimeLife Music / Warner / Sony Music | M18942G
Folk / Folk Rock / Pop / Rock

Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. of AMG wrote of the lager 8 disc set: Time-Life's The Folk Years is a massive survey of folk, pop-folk, and folk-rock from the 1950s and 1960s spread out over eight discs. At 15 songs per CD – equaling 120 total – this chronicle offers a healthy sampling of popular folk music covering dozens of known and forgotten singers and bands. The emphasis of the collection is on popular folk and popular music influenced by folk, meaning that most of the songs here charted. This emphasis also gives The Folk Years a broader appeal than the average folk revival compilation, making it as fun as it is educational.

Acoustic 70s takes you back to some of the greatest song writing of all time in the decade that spawned some of the bestselling artists and groups in history featuring massive Number 1’s from Rod Stewart ‘Maggie May’ , Chicago ‘If You Leave Me Now’ and Harry Nilsson ‘ Without You’. Acoustic 70s focuses on the stripped back acoustic guitar and piano led tracks of the decade with iconic tracks from legends Elton John ‘Your Song’, Bob Dylan ‘ Knocking on Heavens Door’, John Lennon ‘Imagine’, Dolly Parton ‘Jolene’ and Simon & Garfunkel ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’ spread over 3CDs. The greatest songs of all time combining the popularity of acoustic led packages with the legendary artists of the 70s.