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1972: Writer of Songs (Harvey Andrews) 1973: Rosie (Fairport Convention) 1973: Nine (Fairport Convention) 1973: Parcel of Rogues (Steeleye Span) 1973: Battle of the Field (Albion Country Band) 1973: Friends of Mine (Harvey Andrews) 1974: When the Frost is on the Pumpkin (Fred Jordan) 1974: Fairport Live Convention (Fairport Convention)
The band began as a skiffle group with a mainly American repertoire, [2] until they were prompted by Redd Sullivan, a seaman, to include sea shanties and English folk songs. They started out as the Gin Mill Skiffle Group, which included guitarist Tony Davis and washboard player Mick Groves. [ 3 ]
British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s. Though the merging of folk and rock music came from several sources, it is widely regarded that the success of "The House of the Rising Sun" by British band the Animals in 1964 was a catalyst, prompting Bob Dylan to "go electric", in which, like the ...
British folk rock was developed in Britain during the mid to late 1960s by the bands Fairport Convention, and Pentangle which built on elements of American folk rock, and on the second British folk revival. [17] Rather than mixing electric music with forms of American influenced progressive folk, it used traditional English music as its basis. [18]
Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California.They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977. [2]The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion) with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals).
Shawn Phillips (born February 3, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s. His work is rooted in folk rock but straddles other genres, including jazz fusion and funk.
2 1960s North American folk rock vocal groups. 3 British folk rock. 4 Celtic rock. 5 Folk punk. Toggle Folk punk subsection. 5.1 Celtic punk. 6 Uncategorized folk ...
Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as "concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock". [1] In 1967, [2] they were named as joint "Australians of the Year" – the only group thus honoured. In July 1968, Durham left to pursue a solo career ...