Dave Philips

Bassist and singer Dave Philips continues to be dynamic on the Uk folk scene because the early ’60s. He was an associate of the popular Ian Campbell Folk Group, showing up on recordings like the 1964 Over the Hillsides. Philips’ talents like a vocalist are obvious on Performing the Fishing, an idea album offering folk stalwarts Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger that promotes the angling industry itself aswell as the ocean shanties that are evidently helpful for moving period on deck. Resurgent desire for British folk offers meant regular looks because of this bassist on compilation productions like the expansive Acoustic Folk Package on the essential Topic label as well as the first level of Rhino’s Troubadours of English Folk series. Once regarded as dated, the music from the Campbell combo in addition has been polished away for reissue, the Castle label merging the earlier mentioned 1964 part with Elektra’s introductory This is actually the Ian Campbell Folk Group.