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Plainsong were the closest the UK ever came to producing a rival to the Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, a gloriously harmonic marriage of olde English folk, Appalachian gospel and dustbowl travelogues. |
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- Terry Staunton - Record Collector July 05
After leaving Fairport Convention in 1969, and scoring a UK no.1 with Woodstock the following year, hopes were high for Ian Matthews' new, supposedly permanent outfit Plainsong. In Search of Amelia Earhart was lavished with critical praise on its 1972 release, but its folk-tinged country in clipped Limey tones passed the public by. - Tensions during the recording of a second album caused the band to knock it on the head, but the results are gathered here for the first time, more than 30 years later, in the second disc of this terrific package. Plainsong were the closest the UK ever came to producing a rival to the Flying Burrito Brothers, a gloriously harmonic marriage of olde English folk, Appalachian gospel and dustbowl travelogues.
- It's not often you hear mandolins duelling with wah-wah guitars on the same track, or a traditional tale of northern millworkers preceding a Merle Haggard saloon lament, but Plainsong had no use for rulebooks; they were far too busy crafting intelligent acoustic soundscapes and toying with accepted pop sensibilities, and to be presented with 40 examples of such joyousness in one tidy case is a rare and wonderful thing. Undoubtedly one of the rediscoveries of the year.
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Disk 1 Radio Sessions Disk 2 Live Recordings Prospective Singles |
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