Steeleye Span

Recorded live on the spring tour 2011.
Even with a career that has brought us an incredible twenty-one studio albums, British folk legends Steeleye Span’s history still includes a number of records that stand out as landmarks. 1974’s Now We Are Six was one such moment, an album that saw the band expand both their line up to a six piece and with it their sound to explore even further their own unique blend of rock and folk music. A critical and commercial success, the record would provide a home to a number of band classics down the years.
Thirty-seven years later and Steeleye Span find themselves at another milestone…

Steeleye Span - Commoners Crown (LP / FLAC)
FLAC | CUE | NO LOG | Full LP Cover (1:1) | 275MB
Genre: Folk-Rock | Label: Chrysalis 88.713-I | Original release: 1975

The previous album, Now We Are Six, was where it finally all came together for Steeleye Span, but it was with Commoner's Crown that the reached their peak in my opinion. Over a series of several albums there was a clear progression in their music that I feel culminated with the present album. The promises of previous albums finally came to fruition with this one. Commoner's Crown maintains everything that was so appealing about Now We Are Six but it at the same time leaves out most of that album's inconsistencies and minor flaws. From a Prog point of view, these two albums are among the best of 70's Steeleye Span and thus excellent places to start your investigation into the discography of the band.

Progarchives review.

The biggest selling of all Steeleye Span albums is also their hardest rocking record. They sound like would-be competitors to the Who on the opening bars of "The Wife of Usher's Well," with Bob Johnson's electric guitar grinding out power chords like nobody's business…

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive folk music
This is the great Steeleye Span's fourth studio album and in addition to furthering their lovely communion of traditional British folk and blustery hard blues, it was the first release without founder/bassist Ashley Hutchings.