The DRUIDS Pastime With Good Company V Rare Orig UK 1972 Argo Folk Psych LP
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The Druids
Pastime With Good Company
Very Rare original UK LP released on Argo Records in 1972. 1st UK pressing, the sleeve is laminated on the front.
Matrix No's
Side One - ZRG-3789-1G
Side Two - ZRG-3790-2G
The Druids were a superb acoustic folk quintet who started a little too late to achieve major popularity, amid the presence of outfits like Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. Formed as a trio in 1969 by ex-pop musician John Adams (vocals, mandolin, bass), and folk singers Keith Hendrick (vocals, guitar, banjo) and Mick Hennessy (vocals, bass), the group played its first gig at the Manchester Sports Guild in November of that year. A few months later, itinerant fiddler Dave Broughton joined them, and in 1970, while appearing in a documentary film about English folk musicians, they met fifth member Judi Longden, who added her voice to the proceedings.
With their reliance on acoustic instruments, The Druids were far more tradition-based than either Fairport Convention or Steeleye Span. Their repertory consisted of traditional English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish songs arranged for four voices, and their music had a pleasingly archaic feel, not resembling folk-rock at all. If anything, they sounded more like the kind of outfit that A.L. Lloyd or Ralph Vaughan Williams (editors of the definitive collection of English folk songs) would have approved of, without a trace of uncalled for elegance or pretentiousness.
The group broke up in the early 1970s, and Adams later turned up as a member of the group Muckram Wakes and the New Victory Band. They left behind a small but pleasing recorded legacy, contemporary with the best years of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span but radically conservative in its approach to the music.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1 To Drive Cold Winter Away/Father Kelly's Jig/The Rollicking Irishman 3:37
2 Congleton Bear 3:10
3 Three Merry Men Of Kent 1:44
4 All's Dear But Poor Man's Labour 3:45
5 Marquis Of Lorne/Locomotive Hornpipe 1:40
6 The Digger's Song 1:27
7 The Leaves Of Life (The Seven Virgins) 2:46
Side Two
1 Oddjob's Polka/Sally Gardens 2:16
2 Three Jolly Sportsmen 3:26
3 The Pick And The Maltshovel 3:21
4 The Irish Girl 3:45
5 The White Cockade 2:25
6 Marrowbones 1:46
7 Flowers Of Edinburgh/Come Let Us Dance And Sing/Kate Dalrymple 2:49
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Released on Argo Records in 1972
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Catalogue Number ZFB 39
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Record is in Ex + condition (Few very fine hairlines from the inner sleeve)
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition
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