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Released in 2015, Grapefruit’s 3-CD multi-artist British underground folk compilation Dust On The Nettles was widely praised, with a five-star review in The Times hailing it as “a delight from beginning to end”.
A long-overdue follow up to that set, Sumer Is Icumen In tightens the mesh by focusing on the point when traditional folksong and the burgeoning late Sixties counterculture collided, largely courtesy of seminal acts like the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention and Pentangle.
As Steeleye Span’s Martin Carthy commented at the time, the scene had a strong pagan feel, dark and elemental, and progressive folk bands like Dr. Strangely Strange, Comus and Third Ear Band (who performed with the druids in dawn solstice ceremonies at Glastonbury Tor) were active at the same time as folklorists like Mr. Fox pair Bob & Carole Pegg and fellow husband-and-wife team Dave & Toni Arthur, whose commitment to the cause saw them dancing naked at a coven led by ‘King of the Witches’, the notorious Alex Sanders.
Showcasing all of the above names as well as a supporting cast that ranges from Mike Oldfield and Marc Bolan to unsigned bands who recorded demos in a barn, Sumer Is Icumen In features four hours of Albion hymns ancient and modern, including three previously unreleased cuts. “Housed in a stylish clamshell box, it includes a 40-page bookletwith track-by-track annotation, numerous band quotes and some very rare photos.
The result is a secret glade in a darkly pagan woodland that’s peppered with invocations of corn gods, wicker men, bright Phoebus and other non-Christian deities; magickal tales of daemons, sorcerers, false knights and faerie queens; the medieval England myths, legends and traditions of the May Queen, John Barleycorn and the Green Man; paeans to the natural world and the rhythm of the passing seasons; fables of sanctuary stones, scarecrows and buried villages alongside dread stories of purgatory, sacrifice, rape, bestiality and murder.
Title: Sumer Is Icumen In - The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966-1975
Format: CD
Release Date: 27 Nov 2020
Artist: Various
Sku: 2608252
Catalogue No: CRSEGBOX083
Category: Pop
DISC 1
1. Lark Rise Third Ear Band
2. Corn Rigs - Magnet
3. John Barleycorn - Traffic
4. Sanctuary Stone - Midwinter
5. The Keys Of Canterbury Vulcans Hammer
6. The Wood-Gathering Man The Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band
7. Twa Corbies Steeleye Span
8. Lovely Joan Folkal Point
9. Canon Dale (Alternative Version) - The Strawbs
10. White Horse Kevin Coyne
11. Yorric Meic Stevens
12. Lyke-Wake Dirge The Young Tradition
13. Swan In The Evening - Amber
14. Minerva - Synanthesia
15. The Parting Glass The Minor Birds
16. Virgin Childe - Parameter
17. The Sapphire Carolanne Pegg
18. Cabin On The Clifftop Dry Heart
19. Winter Passes Mighty Baby
20. On Horseback Mike Oldfield
21. Tam Lin Fairport Convention
22. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme - Gallery
23. False Knight On The Road Tim Hart & Maddy Prior
24. The Scarecrow (Demo Version) Lal Waterson
25. Silver Man - Chimera
26. The White Hare Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band
27. Mad Tom Of Bedlam Horden Raikes
28. The Song Of The Healer The Sallyangie
29. Lizard-Long-Tongue-Boy (Alternative Version) Bridget St. John
30. Strings In The Earth And Air - Dr. Strangely Strange
31. Sorcerers Jan Dukes De Grey
32. Green Grass Dave & Toni Arthur
33. Wheres Your Master Gone? Simon Finn
34. Nottamun Town - Oberon
35. The House Carpenter Fresh Maggots*
36. Hand In Hand - J. P. Sunshine
37. The Bite - Comus
38. Death The Sun Also Rises
39. Winter Tea & Symphony
40. Autumn Lady Dancing Song Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
41. Summers In Anne Briggs
42. The Bells Of Dunwich Stone Angel
43. Cruel Sister - Pentangle
44. Witches Hat Incredible String Band
45. Reynardine Archie Fisher
46. The Poet And The Witch Mellow Candle
47. Elfin Boy Curved Air
48. Pretty Polly Sweeneys Men
49. Three Ravens - Parke
50. Salisbury Plain Green Man
51. Flodden Field Spriguns Of Tolgus
52. Geordie The Macdonald Folk Group
53. The Queen Of The Night Michael Raven & Joan Mills
54. Holsworthy Peters Fair George Deacon & Marion Ross
55. Captain Wedderburns Courtship Staverton Bridge
56. Butterfly On The Shore Shirley Kent
57. Eastern Spell Marc Bolan
58. The Lark In The Morning Heather, Adrian & John
59. Scarborough Fair The Coterie
60. Mendle Mr. Fox
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