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American Stonehenge
Robin Williamson & His Merry Band
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Port London Early [Instrumental]- Pacheco
- Keepsake
- Zoo Blues
- These Islands Green
- Man in the Van
- Sands and the Glass
- Her Scattered Gold [Instrumental]
- When Evening Shadows Fall
- Rab's Last Woolen Testament
- Song of Mabon [Original Extended Version] - Robin Williamson
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Hauntingly Brilliant
So I'm working in a record store in 1978. I am into folk music, progressive rock, punk rock, classic rock, jazz and classical, and electronic avant garde. (I still own four thousand lp's, that live in a rock maple and walnut custom made shrine--together with the David Perry stereo--but that's another story)
This little beauty comes into the store and it looks good. I don't know how people discover new music today but it used to be about browsing the 12" covers and reading the copy on the back. Having the privelige of listening to any album I desired, I sliced this one open and it got my attention. Eventually, it broke my heart. Some years later I would sit with a bottle in my hand crying over this album.
Robin Williamson was part of a brilliant accoustic duo called the incredible string band back in the sixties. He returns in the late seventies with the Merry Band, kind of an accoustic Celtic Folk orchestra. They are diverse, fantastic musicians and the combination is still quite fresh.
But it's the lyrics that got me. Here is a little sample:
"Some of us died, some got dry, here am I still singing on the stage-
I never turned my cheek but I turned the page, and watched the way the wind blows"
Brilliant, deep and quite often laugh out loud funny--the Merry Band is a real treat. Robin is a Scientologist, but he'll get over that someday.
persevere