FOLK-IMPOSSIBLE: 2009

THIS BLOG IS INACTIVE

YOU CAN VIEW MY (partial)
ALBUM GALLERY

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IN MEMORY OF GOOD TIMES

Happy 2010

Your VANESSA

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DEATH OF A BLOG

Hello everyone
"Thanks" to major forces problems, this blog is closing.
The file links are dead or deleted.
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Update 22 Dec. 2oo9:

IT'S TWO WEEKS SINCE THIS BLOG CEASED ITS ACTIVITY, I MUST SAY I REALLY NEEDED TO FIND MY PEACE BACK, NEVERTHELESS THE COUNTER TELLS ME THAT PEOPLE ARE CONTINUOUSLY ENTERING HERE TO VISIT... THIS MAKES ME OBVIOUSLY GLAD, ALTHOUGH UNFORTUNATELY I MUST DISAPPOINT THEM ALL, FOR SEALING THE SHUTTERS... BUT WHAT MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY IS THAT NOW, AFTER CLOSING, ALL THE FLOOD OF CRAP EMAILS HAS STOPPED!! WOW! IF I ONLY HAD KNOWN IT BEFORE`...!! :-)) . . . . . . HOWEVER: IF ANY OF YOU WANTS TO LEAVE A COMMENT, PLEASE DO IT - JUST REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT A PLACE FOR DISCHARGING YOUR PHYSICAL "NEEDS", IN WHICH CASE YOUR POSTS WILL BE LITTERED.

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Back to my last post, 8 Dec 2009:

My intention was to revive some music that for long time remained buried by oblivion
Nevertheless, it was mandatory for me to be cautious,
because - as expected - the inquisition eventually came
All in all, what I tried was simply to give Folk Music one further chance but now the files need to be removed
I did this for others, not for my own benefit, it's obvious that
all those LPs are in perfect health in my collection,
so it's not me the one in search for them.
And for sure - quite important! - I didn't gain anything at all from this whole operation
I tried the "impossible",but more than this, wasn't possible for me to do

Cheers from the Vinyl Hall behind my divan.

THE ALBUM GALLERY

With the necessary time, I would have posted the following albums and many many more:

God bless Martin Cockerham
SPIROGYRA - St. Radigunds (B & C, 1971)
Pity for you, in case you still don't know this LP

The masterwork of the masterworks:
SPIROGYRA - Bells boots & shambles (Polydor, 1973)

PRELUDE - Dutch courage (Dawn, 1974)
So beautiful and so impossible...!

ALLAN TAYLOR - Sometimes (United Artists, 1972)

JIMMIE SPHEERIS - Isle of view (CBS, 1972) (UK and USA edition) (the standard definition of folk-singer doesn't maybe fit Jimmie Spheeris, but what an inspired lovely song carver, how much intimacy in his albums!... Don't be misled if you see the names of Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke or John Goodsall, the axeman of Brand X, on the covers...! Unfortunately, Jimmie left us in 1984 )

JIMMIE SPHEERIS - The dragon is dancing (CBS, 1974) (see note above)

AL STEWART - Bed sitter images (CBS, 1967)
(these songs exist already on CD, but this is the mono version of the album, )

WIZZ JONES - same (United Artsts, 1969)

WIZZ JONES - The legendary me (Village Thing, 1970)

WIZZ JONES - Happiness was free (Intercord, 1975)

HAMISH IMLACH - The two sides of HI (Transatlantic)

HAMISH IMLACH - Murdered ballads (Transatlantic, 1973)

Great artwork, glorious label, glorious year, great session men...!
yes, but one of the worst LPs I ever heard: PAUL KENT - P. C. Kent (B & C, 1971)

GORDON GILTRAP - Testament of time (Decca, 1971)
extraordinary, unfortunately he didn't repeat this kind of intriguing guitar style...

EWAN MacCOLL - The English and Scottish popular ballads
(F. J Child ballads) - 3 LPs (Folkways, 1961)

YETTIES - All at sea (Argo, 1973)
This for me is the best Yetties LP, powerful sea shanties,
"The mermaid" on top! (...wish she was!)

YETTIES - Up in arms (Argo, 1974)
(the one I like the least, must say.... But still a good one)

SOME GRANDIOUS ALBUMS BY RALPH McTELL, WHICH INEXPLICABLY YOU CAN'T FIND ONLINE....

YOU WELL-MEANING BROUGHT ME HERE (Famous, 1971)
Outer sleeves: - USA version (above, on Paramount) and UK

YOU WELL-MEANING BROUGHT ME HERE (Famous, 1971)
Inner sleeves - UK version (above ) and USA
The USA came in colours, the UK in black-n-brown
The two editions differ for one song

RALPH McTELL - Easy (Warner Bros. 1975)

RALPH McTELL - Streets... (Warner Bros. 1976) the UK edition

RALPH McTELL - Streets of London (Kicking Mule, 1978)

This is the 2nd USA edition, the first was on 20th Century Fox,

but it's exactly the same album as "Streets..."

RALPH McTELL - Right side up (Warner Bros. 1976)
(this is the original cover, not another one that you can find in some other blog around...)

Melody Maker advertising Ralph McTell 's album "Right side up", 6 Nov. 1976

RALPH McTELL - Ralph, Albert & Sydney (Warner Bros. 1977)
fabulous live album

RALPH McTELL - Slide away the screen (Warner Bros. 1979)
....an album of watery country songs, but still a valid one.
Great solos and work by Jerry Donahue!....

BEECHMONTS - In a concert of folk songs (Fortuna, 1965?)
(the original label was this, not 'Treasure', as some online seller tries to make you believe!)

PROVIDENCE - Ever sense the dawn (Threshold, 1972)

SINGSPIEL - same (RCA, 1975)

DR. STRANGELY STRANGE - Kip of the serenes (Island, 1969)

DR. STRANGELY STRANGE - Heavy petting (Vertigo,1970)

PADDY REILLY - The fields of Athenry

JOHNNY ASHCROFT - Little boy lost (EMI Columbia 1959 or 60)

HARVEY ANDREWS - Friends of mine (Cube, 1973)

HARVEY ANDREWS - Someday

HARVEY ANDREWS & GRAHAM COOPER - Fantasies from a corner seat

IMPLOSION - same (Amtal, 1980)

ANGELS COMPANY - Land of my youth

ARIEL AKERIB - La route

DRIFTWOOD - same (Decca, 1970)

LEPRECHAUNS - Irish folk songs (Emerald, 1965)

JOHN JAMES - Morning brings the light
imperdibile

ALEX HOOD - The Wallaby track (EMI Axis, 1968?)

BLOODWOOD - Man made music

BLOODWOOD - Still battlin' (EMI,1984?)

GRAEME ALLWRIGHT - same (Mercury, 1967)
(Alan Stivell, still named Alan Cochevelou, plays here)

GRAEME ALLWRIGHT - second

The exact and complete title of this album is.......... "JAMES COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD, H. M. BARK ENDEAVOUR 1768 - 1771 - Produced by RCA Limited, Australia, 1971, in association with the Bank of New South Wales", for the 200th aniversary of Australia's offcial discovery. Readings by Nigel Lovell, beautiful folk songs by BLACK PLUS RED

.. And this is one side of the poster that's included in the LP

DAVID McWILLIAMS - Lord Offaly

RICHMOND - Frightened

STEVE WARING - U. S. A.

MICHAEL McGEAR - Woman (Island, 1972)
(...does any1 else know who's this woman and what does she do in this pic?)

EMTIDI - Saat (Pilz, 1973)

PINE ISLAND - Live inside

KAREN BETH - The joys of life

BARBARA DICKSON - From the beggar's mantle... fringed with gold
(Decca, 1973)
the last album before going commercial...

HILLSIDERS - Our country (Polydor Moonshine, 1973)

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SOME INTERESTING BOOKS:

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And last, comes "my" little book, the fruit of 10 years of hard core searchings, it had started as a simple sum of album lists of various authors' records, but eventually turned to be something gigantic, and it wasn't possible anymore to keep a block of 100000 flying scrapbook leaflets, I was going crazy... So, I made it in 1984, house-printed in 5 copies, for myself & a few friends whom I was now and then playing folk music with... This small book contained a lot of impossible discographies, extremely detailed. At that time I was still searching for some LPs, I wasn't yet the relaxed "appeased" Folk lover that I am now. Well, it was the biggest mistake I could ever do, to let it tour around! In the space of 3 - 4 months, lots of folk-hunters were on the barricades, all want-lists were suddenly full of these album titles, with all the details that I had given. Needless to say, that was the point where prices started to lift.... the rest is history :-)
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