Definitely in a Folk frame of mind as I make my way through Electric Eden. I find it difficult to find words to express how good it is. This would ordinarily have fallen through the cracks as it finds itself in a twenty five page slot that also contains Liege & Lief. But it's certainly more than good enough to deserve it's own space.
These are the first three tracks from Please to See The King, the second album from Steeleye Span the band that Ashley Hutchings formed when he left Fairport. In Rob Young's words, it's 'a piercing, keen-edged record, perhaps the closest a British group has come to what Bob Dylan called....that wild mercury sound, metallic and bright gold.'
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