Though it still contains the rock influence that permeates all the band's work, 1972's BELOW THE SALT is one of Steeleye Span's most traditional folk albums. Below the Salt CD music This is a folkie's delight, containing excellent, thoughtful interpretations of eight classic English folk tunes chosen with a historian's eye and a fan's heart by singers Maddy Prior and Tim Hart, plus a dazzling pair of spirited jigs, "The Bride's Favourite" and "Tansey's Fancy," starring fiddler Peter Knight.
1973's PARCEL OF ROGUES is one of Steeleye Span's best albums, representing the era when the group's balance between traditional English folk music and good ol' rock and roll was at its surest. Neither too rock for the folk purists ...
Steeleye Span's eighth album, 1975's ALL AROUND MY HAT, is a fan favorite, up there with PLEASE TO SEE THE KING as one of the band's most beloved records. It's a superlative piece of folk-rock, where both halves of that ...
Below the Salt CD music. Whether newly written, as with the Morris-style "A Calling-On Song," or familiar ballads, the songs are uniformly excellent, as are the performances. This lineup actually disbanded immediately upon completing the album and never performed live, but HARK! THE VILLAGE WAIT ...
Below the Salt songs. Steeleye Span's sixth album, 1974's NOW WE ARE SIX, is one of the prolific and ever-changing group's most pop-oriented efforts. Not only was the album co-produced and mixed by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, it features a cover of Phil Spector's ...
Below the Salt album. Steeleye Span were perhaps the closest musical relatives to the celebrated Fairport Convention in the British folk-rock canon. They worked a similar mix of traditional English folk music and late-'60s/early-'70s rock sensibilities, but leaned more toward the former. Every member ...
Below the Salt music CDs. 1971's peculiarly-titled TEN MAN MOP OR MR. RESERVOIR BUTLER RIDES AGAIN is Steeleye Span's third album and the last to feature the band's founder, Ashley Hutchings, who left to form the Albion Country Band shortly after this record's completion. In ...
Below the Salt songs. Track Listing of songs: What a Friend I Have in Jesus; Amazing Grace; Will the Circle Be Unbroken; When the Saints Go Marching In; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Sitting on Top of the World; Jesus Loves Me; Five More Miles to Heaven; ...
Below the Salt music CDs. CLINCH MOUNTAIN SWEETHEARTS was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
Clinch Mountain Sweethearts can be thought of as a bluegrass version of John Prine's In Spite of Ourselves. Like Prine, Stanley is joined by a number of ...
Below the Salt album. When the Discovery Channel commissioned Peter Kater to compose and perform the soundtrack for How the West was Lost, he made some great decisions. He recruited R. Carlos Nakai, Joanne Shenandoah, the White Oak Singers, and other remarkable musicians to ...
Not Below anything This 4th album by the "Span" marks the entry of Bob Johnson & Rick Kemp on electric guitar & bass respectively. From here on out the "Span" would move in a decidedly more "Rock" direction ... By donaldkinda
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Below the Salt The title refers to a heirarchy (much like below the stairs). Again here Steeleye Span update traditional folk songs to a more modern treatment while retaining the original feel. ... By mindimoo1
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Great Service This cd proved hard to get in Australia it was a gift for a friend who has always liked this album from its first release, my friend values the memory and the Traditional English Songs. By stephenbabka
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