Long-overdue follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Dust On The Nettles’, is “a delight from beginning to end”. ‘Sumer Is Icumen In’ tightens the mesh by focusing on the point when traditional folksong and the burgeoning late 60s counterculture collided, largely courtesy of seminal acts like the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention and Pentangle.
One or two very faint surface marks to discs, near perfect.
- 1.1 Lark Rise
- 1.10 White Horse
- 1.11 Yorric
- 1.12 Lyke Wake Dirge
- 1.13 Swan In The Evening
- 1.14 Minerva
- 1.15 The Parting Glass
- 1.16 Virgin Childe
- 1.17 The Sapphire
- 1.18 Cabin On The Clifftop
- 1.19 Winter Passes
- 1.2 Corn Rigs
- 1.20 On Horseback
- 1.3 John Barleycorn
- 1.4 Sanctuary Stone
- 1.5 The Keys Of Canterbury
- 1.6 The Wood-Gathering Man
- 1.7 Twa Corbies
- 1.8 Lovely Joan
- 1.9 Canon Dale (Alternative Version)
- 2.1 Tam Lin
- 2.10 Strings In The Earth And Air
- 2.11 Sorcerers
- 2.12 Green Grass
- 2.13 Where's Your Master Gone?
- 2.14 Nottamun Town
- 2.15 The House Carpenter
- 2.16 Hand In Hand
- 2.17 The Bite
- 2.18 Death
- 2.19 Winter
- 2.2 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
- 2.20 Autumn Lady Dancing Song
- 2.21 Summer's In
- 2.3 False Knight On The Road
- 2.3 The Scarecrow (Demo Version)
- 2.5 Silver Man
- 2.6 The White Hare
- 2.7 Mad Tom Of Bedlam
- 2.8 The Song Of The Healer
- 2.9 Lizard-Long-Tonque-Boy (Alternative Version)
- 3.1 The Bells Of Dunwich
- 3.10 Flodden Field
- 3.11 Geordie
- 3.12 The Queen Of The Night
- 3.13 Holsworthy Peter's Fair
- 3.14 Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
- 3.15 Butterfly On The Shore
- 3.16 Eastern Spell
- 3.17 The Lark In The Morning
- 3.18 Scarborough Fair
- 3.19 Mendle
- 3.2 Cruel Sister
- 3.20 Sumer Is A-Cumin In
- 3.3 Witches Hat
- 3.4 Reynerdine
- 3.5 The Poet And The Witch
- 3.6 Elfin Boy
- 3.7 Pretty Polly
- 3.8 Three Ravens
- 3.9 Salisbury Plain