The All New Electric Muse is a 3 CD box set, part of a long line of Electric Muse CDs that looks at the history of folk rock in this country. As well as such groups as Steeleye Span, The Albion Band and Fairport Convention, the box set includes tracks from Richard Thompson, Ralph McTell and that little known folk rocker Lonnie Donegan.
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Mixing Rock and Folk
John McCusker writes:
I'm writing this from high up in the sky, I'm flying to
John McCusker writes:
The last few weeks have found me stuck at my computer with my partner Heidi in the other room at her laptop...both of us booking flights, rehearsal rooms, vans and loads of other stuff, trying to organise the logistics for a tour that will take 14 people on the road for a project called 'Under One Sky'...in our spare time we've been doing gigs and recording as well!
Jon Boden of Bellowhead writes:
One of the paradoxes of earning a living as a full-time folk musician is that it makes it very difficult to spend any time playing real folk music. Like many folk musicians myself and the other folkies in Bellowhead all started off playing music in pubs for fun. That, indeed, is how we all met.
To Whoever is Out There
Paul Sartin of Bellowhead writes:
I've just finished a day teaching kids in Andover primary schools about their local music traditions and heritage. What a contrast to the Bellowhead tour, only three days hence. Or is it?
Pete Flood of Bellowhead writes:
It's the day after the latest Bellowhead ten-date tour of Britain, and I'm a broken man - grey complexion, red-rimmed eyes and aches all over - not a good look to take back home to my girlfriend and daughter. It's shameful really, considering that many bands have a tour schedule that makes us look like hobbyists, but there's something of a collective frenzy that happens on a Bellowhead tour, particularly onstage, where we'd feel like we were cheating an audience if we didn't spend much of the gig jumping around like fools.
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