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Product Identifiers

Record LabelGrpf, Grapefruit

UPC5013929191402

eBay Product ID (ePID)6054632628

Product Key Features

Release Year2022

FormatCD

GenreFolk

ArtistBefore the Day Is Done: Story of Folk Heritage

Release TitleBefore the Day Is Done: Story of Folk Heritage Records 1968-1975

Dimensions

Item Height0.69 in

Item Weight0.32 lb

Item Length5.40 in

Item Width5.29 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks68

Number of Discs1

Tracks1.1 Songs of Sunshine - Music Box 1.2 High in the Trees - Christie Hennessy 1.3 Death and the Lady - Michael Raven and Joan Mills 1.4 Marcie - Penny Wager 1.5 Sweet Sir Galahad - Folkal Point 1.6 Visions of Cumbria - Mike Donald 1.7 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Blue Horizon 1.8 Photographs - Porter Cunningham 1.9 Lazy Day - Peregrine 1.10 She Moved Through the Fair - the Harvesters 1.11 Cold Haily Rainy Night - the Yardarm 1.12 The Old Woman's Lament - Janet Jones 1.13 Butcher Boy - Spinning Jenny 1.14 Anathea - the Oldest Proffession 1.15 Fanny Blair - the Combine Harvester 1.16 Queen of Hearts - Gallery 1.17 The Two Butchers - the Jovial Crew 1.18 You Keep Going Your Way - the Young Folk 1.19 You Were There - Margaret and Ian 1.20 Three Drunken Maidens - Drowsy Maggie 1.21 Retrospect - Saraband 1.22 Hedgehog's Song - Geoff Smedley 1.23 Oats and Beans/Turkey Rhubarb - John and Christine 1.24 Hard Times of Old England - the Taverners Folk Group 2.1 Matty Groves - the Wayfarers 2.2 Dancers of Stanton Drew - Parke 2.3 Lord Lovell - the Minor Birds 2.4 January Man - Paul and Glen 2.5 Old Pendle - the Pendlefolk 2.6 Geraldine - Mabel Joy 2.7 Yesterday's Rain - Saga 2.8 Lark in the Morning - the Blue Water Folk 2.9 April Come She Will - the MacDonald Folk Group 2.10 Wild and Free - Stained Glass 2.11 Pretty Saro - Rosemary Hardman 2.12 The Two Magicians - Horden Raikes 2.13 Land of the Old and Grey - Mike Donald 2.14 Blackleg Miner - the Bards 2.15 Summer Comes October (Aka the Long and Lonely Winter) - the Yardarm 2.16 Twenty Years - Michael Raven and Joan Mills 2.17 Travelling People - the Young Folk 2.18 Mice and Old Clocks - Friends O'Mine 2.19 4 + 20 - Jack Hudson 2.20 Cannily Cannily - Folkways 2.21 The Female Drummer - the Oldest Proffession 2.22 All Through the Night - Peregrine 2.23 Icy Acres - Gallery 3.1 Close to It All - Saraband 3.2 Take Me for Your Friend - Raggerty 3.3 Connemara Cradle Song - Spinning Jenny 3.4 Grey October - the Minor Birds 3.5 The Trees They Do Grow High - Parke 3.6 Ballad of a Falmouth Man - Saga 3.7 The False Bride - the Harvesters 3.8 Heading for the Sun - Rod Neep 3.9 Oh So Nice - Oddsocks 3.10 Christmas and Tchaikovsky - Stuart Marson 3.11 All I Wanna Do Is Play Guitar - Dave Lewry 3.12 A Week Before Easter - Jancis Harvey 3.13 Snail - Steve Rostron 3.14 What's the Point - the Mug Band 3.15 The White Hare of Oldham - Brian Dewhurst ; Tom Tiddler's Ground 3.16 Elizabethan - the Bards 3.17 Poll Miles - Stained Glass 3.18 Cruel War - the MacDonald Folk Group 3.19 Once I Knew a Pretty Girl - Folkal Point 3.20 I'll Keep It with Mine - Penny Wager 3.21 All the Good Times - the Blue Water Folk

NotesTwo CD anthology of the fiercely-collected Folk Heritage label and related satellites/ spin-offs. Four-hour compilation featuring tracks from some of the most valuable British folk albums of the early 70s. Third instalment of Grapefruit's underground British folk triptych that started with much- acclaimed releases 'Dust On The Nettles' and 'Sumer Is Icumen In'. Founded in the Greater Manchester area in 1968 by the late Alan Green, the Folk Heritage label and it's subsequent associated imprints - Midas, Sweet Folk & Country, Westwood, Real - was an obscure but dedicated home for the grass-roots element of the British folk boom. Throughout the 70s, Folk Heritage and it's offshoots released limited-edition pressings of albums by various bands and singers, most of whom were active on the thriving north-west England folk club circuit. With most releases limited to 200 copies or less, and only available from the folk club where the performer was resident, many of the albums have gone on to become hugely collectable. Before The Day Is Done assembles the cream of the label's roster during it's late 60s/early 70s heyday. It features tracks from the rarest, most valuable releases, including legendary-among-collectors names like Gallery, The Oldest Proffession, Folkal Point, The Minor Birds, Mike Raven/Joan Mills and Spinning Jenny. Folk club stalwarts like The Taverners, Rosie Hardman and The Harvesters are also represented, while there's also space for bands of a more folk-rock persuasion (Saraband, Stained Glass, Music Box) and acoustic guitar-wielding singer-songwriters (Christie Hennessy, Janet Jones, Jancis Harvey, Stuart Marson, etc).