 | Love Death and the Lady by Shirley Collins
Buy used from: £43.85 The queen of English folk, Shirley Collins rarely sounded better than on this anachronistic masterpiece. This is a magnificent album - dark, brooding and oh so very English.
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 | Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.87 The word 'travesty' could have been invented to describe the fate that befell the music career of Vashti. Buy this album, love it and be amazed that it lay in the vaults undiscovered for 30 years.
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 | Liege And Lief by Fairport Convention
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £4.65 With Ashley Hutchings assuming the role of group leader they now fully embraced English folk and tackled such material as Matty Groves and Tam Lin like they were exorcising demons.
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 | A Collection by Anne Briggs
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £4.49 Anne Briggs' influence on the modern interpretaion of folk songs cannot be overstated. Put simply, no Anne Briggs = no Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior, Gay Woods, June Tabor, Jacqui McShee et al.
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 | Folk Roots New Routes by Shirley Collins
Folk, blues and jazz are all fused effortlessly on an album that has barely dated - this really doesn't sound 40 years old. Stunning.
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 | Fotheringay by Fotheringay
Buy used from: £39.24 Fotheringay was Sandy Denny's vision of a folk supergroup. It's a shame that she went solo as they would probably have faired better than most other folk groups of the era.
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 | Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £4.48 This album is credited with kick-starting the whole folk/rock boom of the late 60', includes the seminal A Sailor's Life.
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 | The Lark In Morning - The Early Years by Steeleye Span
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £4.99 The version of The Blacksmith on this album is as good as folk/rock gets and Dark Eyed Sailor is almost as smart.
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 | The North Star Grassman and the Ravens by Sandy Denny
Buy used from: £3.42 Started as the second Fotheringay album and completed as Sandy's first real solo effort, this is probably the only Sandy Denny album worth owning.
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 | The Garden of Jane Delawney by Trees
Buy used from: £5.13 An underrated band, both Trees albums are great but this one has the edge. Folk/rock in the purest sense, this is a good mix of traditional and original material.
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