Gay & Terry Woods

The husband-and-wife duo of Gay and Terry Woods got their from 1969, when Terry Woods was still an associate of Sweeney’s Guys. At that time, negotiations had been underway for Sweeney’s Guys plus Homosexual Woods to become listed on Fairport Convention bassist Ashley Hutchings in a fresh band, to become called Steeleye Period. When Sweeney’s Guys associates Irvine and Moynihan chose it wasn’t what they wished, another duo, England’s Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, proceeded to go along with Woods and Hutchings. The Woods lasted first album before stunning out on their very own because the Woods Music group, liberating an eponymous debut in 1971, where they combined traditional and unique materials. After touring thoroughly throughout European countries, the band dropped apart and Homosexual and Terry came back to Ireland. Settled once again, they authorized with Polydor, for whom they documented Backwoods in 1975. Made up mostly of unique material just like their subsequent produces would be, they truly became even more experimental on the two 1976 information, IT’S HIGH TIME and Renowned. Provided their small market, that became the end of the major-label association and their last album collectively, Tenderhooks, appeared within the small Mulligan label from Dublin, an Irish folky origins rock and roll swansong (choices from their last two years are available on Homosexual and Terry Woods in Concert). At that time, Gay became a member of prog band Car Da Fe and Terry Woods briefly revived the Woods Music group before abandoning music for a couple years. He resurfaced in 1986 as an associate from the Pogues, whose music was a primary descendent of his use Sweeney’s Males. Though Homosexual Woods, as well, retired from music, she do emerge in to the limelight once again in the past due ’90s, rejoining Steeleye Period and getting their lone vocalist following the departure of Maddy Prior.