Release Date: 30 September 2010
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 0711297159622
Genres: Folk
Description
This double-CD set is a collection drawn from the ten albums that the indefatigable English folk-rock veterans recorded between the dates in the title. It seems extraordinary that Oysterband managed to toil so long and so prolifically while eliciting so little popular or critical recognition--not even the parochial devotion afforded their approximate spiritual kin in Scotland (Runrig), Ireland (The Saw Doctors) or Wales (The Alarm). Though Oysterband were by no means flawless--they were hidebound by the gruff dogmatic puritanism common among 80s lefties--they did produce a consistently more invigorating racket than, for example, The Levellers or New Model Army, who clearly owed Oysterband a great deal. As proof of this, Granite Years collects some fine tunes and some passionate playing.
Tracklisting
Cracker
Punk Rock Factory
Larkin Poe
The Darkness
June Tabor
Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan
The Orb
Ron Sexsmith
Oysterband
Oysterband
Oysterband
Oysterband
Oysterband
Oysterband
Oysterband
Oysterband
