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Early ’70s Britain was aglow with glorious singing maidens whose hearts belonged to the past but whose music sounded like the future. Some achieved success, some cult notoriety. Others, like MARIANNE SEGAL of JADE were all but forgotten until the 21st century acid-folk renaissance thrust them and their timeless album Fly On Strangewings back into the spotlight.


RICHARD ALLEN gets ready to fly


omething very special was happening to the UK folk scene in the very early ’70s. In a rush towards electrification – pioneered in the late ’60s by the likes of The Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Eclection –


British folk musicians had resolved to take traditional folk out of its dusty barn, slap a coat of brightly hued paint onto its ancient bones and roll it out into the country air. This new mix of mythic story, psychedelic hippy ideals, romantic prose and ancient ghosts flashed, momentarily, with the spirit of the age and whilst it created few pop hits and even fewer long term successes, it gave us a canon of wonderful records that seem as apart from their place in time then, as they do now. Revered acts such as Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span and Lindisfarne grew rapidly to become the giants of the folk-rock forest, yet beneath them but no less rewarding with their art, outfits such as Mellow Candle, Trees, Decameron, Dando Shaft, Storyteller and Hedgehog Pie flourished in the dappled autumn shadows.


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