BRANDYWINE BRIDGE An English Meadow Orig UK 1978 Private Cottage Folk LP Signed
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Brandywine Bridge
An English Meadow
Very Rare original UK LP released on Cottage Records in 1978. 1st UK pressing complete with lyric insert and signed on the back cover.
Brandywine Bridge was a British folk group that released the albums The Grey Lady in 1977 and An English Meadow in 1978. The instrumentation features recorders, banjo, guitar, madolin, bodhran and other acoustic instruments along with male and female vocals. Members included Dave Grew along with brother and sister Stuart and Sheila Hague.
English trio Brandywine Bridge released An English Meadow in 1978. The album containes twelve original songs penned in the style of traditional English folk music. The arrangements are all-acoustic with Dave Grew, Stuart Hague, and Sheila Hague playing guitar, banjo, and mandolin, fiddle, recorder, concertina, bowed psaltery, spoons, and bells. Four songs are instrumental but most feature vocals. Sheila Hague’s fragile voice (sounding a bit like Sandy Denny’s) is featured most often and most prominently, although her two colleagues handle their share of vocal duties, proving themselves to be competent singers in the unpolished and rough-hewn style typical other early 70’s male British folk-rockers (Jansch, Hart, Cockerham, etc.). The band does do a fine job of evoking the traditional styles, although their reliance upon cheery major key melodies seems at odds with the darker, lyrical content (which includes songs about poaching, war, witches, and animal sacrifice. All in all, this is a very pleasant and well done album of English folk from the mid-70s but it remains purely in the folk realm, without ever venturing into psych-folk, prog-folk, or the like.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 An English Meadow 3:13
2 Deanwater 1:44
3 Three Lovers 4:08
4 Congreve's Rockets 1:55
5 Hickory House Tunes 2:33
6 Bonnie Prince 4:02
Side Two
1 Black Anna's Bower 3:08
2 Sea Wives Lament
3 Set Of Tunes 1:26
4 Toss Your Pennies 4:38
5 Billie The Budgie 2:28
6 The Ox 2:35
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Released on Cottage Records in 1978
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Catalogue Number COT 321
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Disc is in Ex ++ condition
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition
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