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Something special for composing hook-laden tracks and sensitively interpreting the task of American singer/songwriters has taken Rab Noakes towards the forefront of Scottish pop music. His 1970 debut record, Do You Start to see the Lighting, included “Jointly Forever,” which became a folk-pop strike for Lindisfarne. His second record, Rab …

Leon Rosselson is among England’s esteemed songwriters. Most widely known for his politically-edged tune, “The Globe Turned UGLY,” included in Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughan, Rosselson is constantly on the reflect the condition of contemporary Britain through his music. While British paper, the Guardian known as his music “brutal, funny, …

Fotheringay were a short-lived offshoot of Fairport Convention, featuring essential member and head Sandy Denny. The band’s just studio record, a self-titled record offering Denny’s very own compositions and many covers, found its way to 1970. (Another album was prepared but never finished, although guitarist Jerry Donahue afterwards completed the …

This UK band was formed in 1968 at Essex University, England. The creative hippie co-operative revolved around Belinda ‘Bindy’ Borquin (vocals/recorder/violin/piano), Main Cartwright (acoustic guitar/mandolin/recorder) and David Jones (percussion) who have been initially became a member of by Jeremy Ensor (bass) and vocalists Martin Stellman, Monica Nettles and Vivienne McAuliffe. …

Best known because the co-founder, head, and primary songwriter from the Newcastle folk-based rock-band Lindisfarne, Alan Hull also pursued an effective career being a single performer, focusing on original songs. At once, amid Lindisfarne’s early successes, Hull had been hailed as the utmost innovative songwriter since Bob Dylan, and even …

They are an excellent ’70s folk/rock group from Scotland, featuring Dick Gaughan.

For quite some time, Máire Brennan has been the lead singer from the Celtic modern group Clannad. In 1992, she released her first single record, Máire, on Atlantic Information. Three years afterwards, she released Misty Eyed Travels on BGM. For 1998’s Ideal Time, she turned labels and agreed upon with …

Rod Clements is most beneficial referred to as the co-founder of Lindisfarne and the writer of such tracks as “Meet up with Me around the Part” and “Street to Kingdom Come.” Like a bassist and vocalist, he has used artists and organizations as different as Ralph McTell, Peter Hammill, and …

Lindisfarne barely command greater than a footnote generally in most rock and roll reference books. Through the early ’70s, nevertheless, Lindisfarne had been among the most popular folk-based rock and roll bands in Britain, with graph placements on two of their albums that rivaled Jethro Tull, and experienced them proclaimed …

This UK folk rock-band was formed in 1968 by Dave Bell (guitar/percussion/vocals), and Johnny Coppin (b. 5 Apr 1946, South Woodford, Essex, Britain; electric guitar/piano/vocals). The line-up grew, in Sept 1969, once the duo added Al Fenn (b. Alastair Fenn, 9 March 1947, Chingford, Essex, Britain; guitar/mandolin/vocals), and additional still …