Strange Folk

Marmalade Mountain is the longtime recording project of Zack Fischmann. After re-forming in Los Angeles in 2017, Fischmann wrote and recorded incessantly for a few years, and teamed up with the local music community to create and release his latest work, Strange Angels…

The Loyal Seas are Tanya Donelly and Brian Sullivan. For the last decade, trailblazing alternative rock figurehead Tanya Donelly - co-founder of Belly, Throwing Muses and The Breeders - has pursued meaningful collaborations with favorite artists and friends. The resulting work is by turns poignant, delightful and entirely surprising, melding folk, rock, pop and orchestral sounds…

John Renbourn - BBC Live In Concert (1998) {Strange Fruit SFRSCD076 rec 1978-1980}
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© 1978-80, 1998 BBC Music / Strange Fruit | SFRSCD 076
Folk / British Folk / Celtic / Folk-Blues

The late '70s were a very fertile time for John Renbourn. The solo albums he'd done had explored early music and blues – the twin ends of a wide spectrum – and in his post-Pentangle period he mined a lot of the terrain in between. This album – recorded at BBC concerts on July 26, 1978, and May 21, 1980 – shows how far he'd traveled. His work with Stefan Grossman had been documented on a couple of albums, but adding flute and tabla to the lineup, as well as reuniting with former Pentangle colleague, singer Jacqui McShee, offered more possibilities, as on "Great Dreams From Heaven" and another visit to "Trees They Do Grow High," which Renbourn and McShee had performed with Pentangle.

On Mighty Rearranger, the core of the band Robert Plant showcased on 2002's Dreamland – and named the Strange Sensation – is a full-blown expanded lineup that shares the bill with him. Guitarists Justin Adams and Skin Tyson, drummer Clive Deamer, keyboardist John Baggot, and bassist Billy Fuller help Plant give listeners his most musically satisfying and diverse recording since, well, Led Zeppelin's Physical Grafitti…

3CD compilation focussing on the mid-60s haunt of the emergent folk and blues scene in London. Featuring a host of big names who visited the venue many of whom went on to national success. Les Cousins was a folk and blues club in the basement of a restaurant in Greek Street, in London’s Soho, which became a home and the epicentre for the folk revival of the mid-1960s, a venue where musicians met and learnt from each other. As such, it was influential in the careers of so many pioneers – Al Stewart, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Alexis Korner, Strawbs, Roy Harper, Paul Simon and many others.