Track Listing

1. Streets Of London - McTell, Ralph
2. Colours - Donovan (1)
3. Light Flight - Pentangle
4. Needle Of Death - Jansch, Bert
5. Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway - Humblebums
6. Mirrors - Oldfield, Sally
7. Candy Man - Renbourn, John
8. Times They Are A Changin' - Campbell, Ian Folk Group
9. I'm So Confused - Softley, Mick
10. Boadicea - Swarbrick, Dave
11. Both Sides Now - Johnstons
12. Alchemist And The Peddler - Dransfield
13. Bright Phoebus - Waterson, Lal & Mike
14. Timeless And Strange - Christmas, Keith
15. Stargazer - McDonald, Shelagh
16. Breakdown Of The Song - Decameron (1)
17. When I Was On Horseback - Steeleye Span
18. Fiddler's Green - Hart, Tim & Maddy Prior
19. Mary Skeffington - Rafferty, Gerry
20. Matty Groves - Fairport Convention

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1249 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Best of British Folk
At £2-98, how can one go wrong with this? It is my favourite CD to play on my computer as I work. There are so many great tracks with a few I often skip. My favourites are the Alchemist and the Pedlar (I often play that over again - a really great song!) The streets of London, Matty Groves, and the Needle of Death, to name the very very best, but this CD will not, in my view, disappoint at all!

Reasonably good snapshot and introduction to British Folk
Quite a variety of tunes on this from "Streets of London" through to "Colours" and "Matty Groves". No surprises- most folk acts you can think of are represented although some like Billy Bragg are notable by their absence. The chances are this would suffice as a good introduction to folk, since most people into the genre will have nealry all of these tracks in some form or another.

Very good but not what I expected
This album should be retitled:60's British Folk. Rather than meeting expectations, this album presents the listener with sounds that often bridged the gap between folk and rock. Because I am quite elitist with music,I felt that anything electric or synthesised was out of place within authentic folk. Due to such a presence, I have had to come up with a new way of appreciating this album. Without the bounds of classification this is very good! hamish imlach- very good. Saw both pentangle and bert jansch in colchester UK last month- spoilt, arent i?