{"product_id":"gather-in-the-mushrooms-the-british-folk-underground-1969-1975","title":"Gather in the Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969-1975","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompiled by Bob Stanley to document the acid folk scene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eGather In The Mushrooms\u003c\/em\u003e was first issued in 2004 on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSanctuary as a CD-only release; it proved popular enough \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor a sequel entitled\u003cem\u003e Early Morning Hush \u003c\/em\u003etwo years later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eGather In The Mushrooms\u003c\/em\u003e contains \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe cream of both long-deleted compilations with a few additions \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC.O.B., Roy Harper, Fotheringay \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– that weren’t available to Sanctuary at the time. Though they aren’t \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etraditional, these songs have an authenticity of their own, an autumnal atmosphere and a naivety which proved influential in the 00s neo-folk boom (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Alasdair Roberts, Tuung et al) but impossible to replicate. For many of these acts at the end of the 60s, folk music and the hippy world that surrounded them was a way of life, a way of opting out from the Vietnam war, Angry Brigade and three-day-week early 70s. Anne Briggs lived in a caravan in Suffolk, Shelagh McDonald lived in a tent, Vashti Bunyan eschewed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectricity; they weren’t part\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etimers. Listening to “Gather In The Mushrooms”, we are transported to a time when no \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eone used the term post-modernist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt may not have resonated with dyed-in-the wool political folkies, but over five decades later this music sounds very evocative of an England of yore \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enot necessarily one of poachers and pedlars, but one of long-haired youths in tie- dye T-shirts, bikers and hippies, acoustic guitars played in white stone cottages. Groups such as Midwinter and Oberon made primitive, privately recorded folk albums; today they sound as distant and mystical as the field recordings of Alan Lomax. The sincerity and folk knowledge of a group like Forest becomes irrelevant once\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyou hear something as eerie and evocative as ‘Graveyard’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHome-made, homely, warm as soup or chilling as a hoar frost, this is music of innocence and rare beauty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e01 Corn Rigs - Magnet \u0026amp; Paul Giovanni 02 Morning Way - Trader Horne 03 Preview  Nottanum Town - Oberon 04 Graveyard - Forest 05  The Skater - Midwinter Side 2 01 Winter Winds - Fotheringay 02 Lord And Master - Heron 03  Fly High - Bridget St John 04 Sheep Season - Mellow Candle 05 The Bells Of Dunwich - Stone Angel Side 3 01  The Seagulls Scream - Christine Quayle 02  Forest And The Shore - Keith Christmas 03  Rosemary Hill - Fresh Maggots 04 Fine Horseman - Anne Briggs 05  The Werewolf - Barry Dransfield Side 4 01 Another Day - Roy Harper 02 Window Over The Bay - Vashti Bunyan 03 Eleven Willows - COB (Clive's Original Band) 04  The Herald - Comus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ace Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51483097530699,"sku":"R6526-1551","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":51483097563467,"sku":"R6526-7212","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2LP - Yellow \/ Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":51483097596235,"sku":"R6526-2753","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/CDTOP1659GATHERINTHEMUSHROOMSCD.jpg?v=1742485157","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/gather-in-the-mushrooms-the-british-folk-underground-1969-1975","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}