Arran jumpers, beards, sandals ‘n’ socks: and that’s just the women!


At TASS*, Terry Hyde surveys a recent huge donation of LPs in a genre that never goes out of fashion: Folk Music.


We now have more folk music on vinyl than you could shake a tipper at (a tipper is used to beat a bhodran, so know you know). In the folk mainstream we have 14 LPs by Steeleye Span, including a very nice 1st label gatefold copy of ‘Below the Salt’. Also, as we are in the West Country, then predictably we have a surfeit of albums by our cider-heads, The Wurzels and our hairy friends, The Yetties. This includes The Yetties highly unusual double LP from 1988: ‘The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy’, which features readings and tunes associated with the great man. Roger Trim plays not only the fiddle that once belonged to Hardy, but also the fiddle that once belonged to Hardy’s father.


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