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The Chelsea Sessions 1967 is a compilation album by the Scottish psychedelic folk group the Incredible String Band, which compiles their demo recordings prior to their second studio album, The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion.
Hard Rope & Silken Twine is the twelfth and final album released by The Incredible String Band.It was released in 1974. It was fitting that their final track "Ithkos" was 20 minutes of several compositions. These ranging from Greek roots, to their strongest genre, folk, then progressive rock, and endi
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C.O.B. split up in early 1973, Clive keeping the name for the remaining gigs they were booked to do and forming a new version of the band with Henry Bartlett from the Famous Jug Band and guitarist Chris Newman. A solo album called Just Me followed on the German label Autogram in 1978. Palmer later moved to live in Brittany. He returned to ...
The name "String Band" was a common appellation amongst folk groups, usually with an identifying characteristic or location attached, as with the Incredible String Band or The Iron Mountain String Band. The group chose "Stringband" as a temporary place-holder name until they could figure out exactly what sort of String Band they were—but a ...
Old-time string bands were mainly composed of stringed instruments.Those instruments being the fiddle, 5-string banjo, acoustic guitar, and an upright bass/cello.. Depending on the type of genre the old-time music is being accompanied by, the stringed instruments may also be joined by other instruments including spoons, washboards, jugs, harmonica, harps a
Christina "Licorice" McKechnie (born 2 October 1945) is a Scottish musician. She was a singer and songwriter in the Incredible String Band between 1968 and 1972. Her whereabouts have been publicly unknown since 1986, when she was last seen hitchhiking across the Arizona desert.
Writer Dan Lander described the song as Mike Heron's masterpiece. He wrote: [5] "Weaving between styles as divergent as Bahamian funerary music, East Indian incantation and ancient Celtic mysticism, 'A Very Cellular Song' represents a high point in the band's creativity and surely influenced a host of others including Led Zeppelin, the Who and Lou Reed.