5013929186101

Across The Great Divide: Getting It Together In The Country (1968-1974) (3cd)

Various Artists

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEGBOX061

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Release Date:  25 October 2019

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929186101

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description


    • At the height of psychedelia and the worldwide Summer of Love, Traffic retreated from the bright lights of the city and the music industry hurly-burly to get their act together in the wilds of rural Berkshire – where, away from the outside world, they worked on an organic fusion of jazz, folk, pop and R&B elements that would herald a game-changing new maturity in British rock.


     



    • Over the next twelve months or so, Traffic’s symbiosis of bucolic living and naturalistic music would be mirrored by events of the other side of the Atlantic: The Band’s rootsy country/soul/R&B stew, The Byrds’ move into country-rock and Crosby Stills & Nash’s intricate harmonies and acoustic-led instrumentation would all strike a chord with British rock bands and the burgeoning hippie scene in general.


     



    • Traffic’s concept of getting it together in the country, together with the nascent West Coast sound and the first real stirrings of what would subsequently become known as Americana, had a seismic effect. Numerous bands – Brinsley Schwarz, Bronco, Heron etc - began to live communally, retiring to remote farmhouses and country cottages to write, rehearse and even record in splendid isolation.


     



    • The peacock plumage and acid-in-wonderland lyrics of psychedelia were rejected. Instead, The Band’s down-home appearance and tales of old-time rural America were adopted wholesale.  Polite, middle-class young men raised in quiet suburban towns on a diet of Marmite, The Dandy and early closing on Wednesdays suddenly assumed the appearance of weather-beaten, late 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush prospectors.  The Aquarian Age was slowly turning into the Agrarian Age.


     



    • Across The Great Divide: Getting It Together In The Country is the first compilation to shine a light on this curiously neglected stitch in the constantly-evolving British rock tapestry of the late Sixties/early Seventies. Joining huge names like Rod Stewart, Traffic and Fairport Convention are cult underground acts, mainstream Sixties pop groups updating their sound, a post-Dylan wave of back-to-the-land singer/songwriters and a clutch of righteously obscure rural rockers whose music failed to find an outlet at the time.   


     



    • Over three 3CDs and four hours of music (including several tracks that have never previously been issued), and housed in a clamshell box containing a 44-page booklet, Across The Great Divide assiduously charts the fascinating period when a posse of British musicians bravely attempted to build Cripple Creek in perfidious....

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Warming Up The Band - Heads Hands & Feet
      • 2. Cajun Woman - Fairport Convention
      • 3. Home Is Where I Want To Be - Mott The Hoople
      • 4. Devil’s Whisper - Mighty Baby
      • 5. Desert Island Woman - Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers
      • 6. Willowing Trees - Shape Of The Rain
      • 7. Abbot Of The Vale - Tony Hazzard
      • 8. Louisiana Man - The Hollies
      • 9. Fading - Mason
      • 10. Sleep Song - Unicorn
      • 11. Boy, You’ve Got The Sun In Your Eyes - Open Road
      • 12. Cousin Norman - The Marmalade
      • 13. Clifftop - Richmond
      • 14. Lady Came Fro The South - Starry Eyed And Laughing
      • 15. Oil Fumes And Sea Air - Stray
      • 16. Red Man - Rare Bird
      • 17. The Pie - The Sutherland Brothers Band
      • 18. Touch Her If You Can - Matthews Southern Comfort
      • 19. Empty Street, Empty Heart - Quicksand
      • 20. Ooh La La - Faces

      Disc 2

      • 1. Country Girl - Brinsley Schwarz
      • 2. When I’m Dead And Gone - McGuinness Flint
      • 3. Forty Thousand Headmen - Traffic
      • 4. New Day Avenue - Bronco
      • 5. Try Again - Tranquility
      • 6. Velvet Mountain - Cochise
      • 7. A Souvenir Of London - Procol Harum
      • 8. Cinnamon Girl - The Deep Set
      • 9. Day The World Ran Away - Stephen Jameson
      • 10. I’ll Just Take My Time - Byzantium
      • 11. It’s A Way To Pass The Time - High Broom
      • 12. Going To The Country - Holy Mackerel
      • 13. Liquor Man - Montage
      • 14. Jesus Is Just Alright - Shelagh McDonald
      • 15. We Both Need To Know - Granny’s Intentions
      • 16. Bye And Bye - Heron
      • 17. Country Dan And City Lil - Timebox
      • 18. And A Button - The Searchers
      • 19. Take Me To The Pilot - The Orange Bicycle
      • 20. The Jailer - Natural Gas
      • 21. So Nice - Curtiss Maldoon
      • 22. Million Times Before - Jawbone

      Disc 3

      • 1. Open The Door - Carolanne Pegg
      • 2. Country Comfort - Rod Stewart
      • 3. Home For Frozen Roses - Northwind
      • 4. Nice - Bridget St. John
      • 5. Country Road - The Pretty Things
      • 6. Home Grown - Andy Roberts
      • 7. Sheriff Myras Lincoln - Edwards Hand
      • 8. Circle Round The Sun - Marian Segal
      • 9. Pretty Haired Girl - The Parlour Band
      • 10. Hello Buddy - The Tremeloes
      • 11. Tallawaya - Greasy Bear
      • 12. My Name Is Jesus Smith - Man
      • 13. Metropolis - Keith Christmas
      • 14. Country Heir (Single Edit) - Deep Feeling
      • 15. Johnson Boy - Prelude
      • 16. Cottage Made For Two - Paul Brett’s Sage
      • 17. See How They Run - Dave Cousins & Dave Lambert
      • 18. Clear Blue Sky - Mother Nature
      • 19. Dancing Flower - Idle Race
      • 20. Wheel Of Fortune - The Illusions
      • 21. My Little One - Gordon, Ellis & Steel
      • 22. I’ll Fly Away (Demo Version) - Plainsong