Stroll on Revisited

Artist: Steve Ashley
Label: Pwmd Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

EAN: 5019148621904
ASIN: B00000JSTK

Release Date: 2003-12-02

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Tracks:

Fire and Wine
Finite Time
Silly Summer Games
Springsong
Monkey Puzzle Tree
Farewell Green Leaves
Spirit of Christmas
Morris Minor
Candlemas Carol
John Donne Song
Old Rock 'n' Roll
Love in a Funny Way
Lord Bateman
Follow On

Customer Reviews:

A unique voice in the Brit-folk scene.......2002-08-22

One of those "lost legendary albums" we keep hearing about, but in this case a genuine folk revival gem that is certainly worth checking out. Ashley was a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who was in the general orbit of the fabled Fairport Convention, and plenty of famous folks play with him on this lovely little album, including Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Danny Thompson and others. It's familiar-sounding material, straight out of the shaggy-haired, dancing-with-elves scene, yet Ashley's work definitely has an individual stamp to it, a beguiling mix of traditionalism and the searching, spacy mysticism that marked the work of contempraries like Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. Not as cohesive (or perhaps, dare I say it?) as commercial an album as all the oft-cited classic LPs of the Brit-folk canon, but that may be what makes this dsic worth tracking down -- Ashley does have a different take on things, a distinctive voice in a genre that quite often fell back on familiar stylistic conventions...

A great album.......2001-01-09

What marks a classic? Maybe its the extra tracks? I remember this album the first time around when the UK's Sunday Times described Steve Ashley as the greatest songwriter in the country. Bit strong but it measured the strength of feeling at the time. This album got great reviews in the 70s and so has this reissue. He was an accomplished writer of music and lyric and Stroll On is probably his finest hour (at least so far as I see another album is on the way). I think this is an even better record as they have located extra tracks from the recording sessions. Check out the quality of these - most extra tracks are the dreck that didn't and couldn't fit. Not so Ashley's for Stroll On - they are gems. Recommended for collectors of English folk rock.

eh.......2000-12-17

not nick drake - not even close. not great british folk, like (in no particular order) fairport, richard thompson martin carthy, bert jansch, madonna, john renborn, pentangle, steeleye span, sandy denny, or annie briggs. not a long lost folk classic, not a seminal album, -- but not that cheesy jazzbo john martyn crud, and not really bad.

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