Steeleye Span

The Boar's Head Carol: Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span

Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008

Incredible String Band “First Girl I Loved”

JamsBio (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008

The Incredible String Band concocted a stew of hippie mantras punctuated by a bouquet of exotic instruments (sitar, tambura, jaw harp, gimbri, pan pipe, oud, chahanai) and rooted in the age old Celtic songwriting tradition.

Sunday reflectons - Advent 3

Byzigenous Buddhapalian (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008

Update: I am adding a bit of music. This Guadete by Steeleye Span is anticipatory, since it is Christmas music - Rejoice, Christ is born of the Virgin Mary. Now, here is the actual introit for today: We have come to one of the year's two "Rose Sundays," so named for the liturgical color. At the current price of vestments, few churches have rose vestments and altar hangings. It is the one liturgical...

Bright Morning Star: Steeleye Span

Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008

It's the annual Christmas music spectacular on Coffee. From now until Christmas you'll find a variety of music. I promise to stay away from the most obvious. MP3 File yousendit

Greatest Christmas hits of the last 2000 years: No. 17

And another thing... (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008

Gaudete - Steeleye Span NOTHING like a good old fashioned bit of hippy folk music to get the Christmas spirit going, is there?

More Thanksgiving music

spynotes (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008

Don’t forget to checkout the previous post, my annual Thanksgiving Index I wanted to add to my list from a couple of days ago of Thanksgiving-appropriate music. There are also some good suggestions in the comments for that post, so check them out too. One song that came to mind shortly after Steeleye Span’s “Marigold,” which [...]

Infra and that...

Martin Lee Stephenson Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008

Good to see June Tabor on the Maddy Prior/Steeleye Span thing on BBC3...met...

Ooh, It Makes Me Wonder

The Driftwood Singers Present (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008

But is it even close to being enough? Seven Hundred Elves--Steeleye Span Line notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock, folk, prog, indie, so much more. Love.

The Song Will Remain: The Steeleye Span

Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008

This is from Time, released in 1996. MP3 File

The Cut Paper Art of Hunter Stabler

Neatorama (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008

Hunter Stabler is a Philadelphia-based cut-paper artist who slices up sheets of paper in order to create elaborate sculptures. Above is “Baba Yoga Misquotes the Face to Steeleye Span.” Link via Fallon and Rosof

Rose Kemp – Unholy Majesty (One Little Indian)

Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

Q: What sound do you get from the daughter of two scions of folk-rock who also loves Black Sabbath, Kate Bush and prog rock? A: Rose Kemp.

Banburyshire Brolly music podstation - Show 177

Banburyshire Brolly (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Banburyshire Brolly music podstation - Show 177 Presented by Bob Barrows. Featuring : Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Fairport Convention with Chris and Kellie While Say Something by Circus Envy Moonshiner by Mounthoolies Here Comes The Rain by Trader Horne Tam Lin by Steeleye Span A "very special" Brolly (I hope this doesn't mean we've jumped the shark) celebrating the 5th birthday of the Talkawhile...

Three Drunken Maidens: Maddy Prior

Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

This is a traditional Irish folk song. I first heard it sung by Fairport Convention. This version is from Maddy's album Summer Solstice. Tim Hart is playing guitar. MP3 File

Al Jones: acoustic blues and folk musician

Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

Al Jones was a stalwart of the British acoustic blues and folk scenes in the 1960s who never went on to achieve commercial success but enjoyed a cult following that recently led to the reissue of his back catalogue on CD.

by GeoX #7

Time Has Told Me (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008

Bok Muir & Trickett " And So Will We Yet " 1990 One of their best albums. Features a version of "John Barleycorn"that is not the version made famous by Traffic and Steeleye Span.Also "Past Caring," one of the most relentlessly depressing songsever. What else is there to say? -GeoX This trio has never made a bad album, though some have been more transcendent than others. If this one doesn't top Turning...