Virtual Jukebox

I cannot resist putting a Pentangle track on for the Juke Box.

As the sixties turned to the seventies, the age of British Folk-Rock was born, with three outstanding groups of the time having beautiful voices of female vocalists.

There was Fairport Convention, with lead vocalists first Judy Dyble and then Sandy Denny, who went from a transatlantic sound inspired by Jefferson Airplane to Electrifying English Folk music when Dave Swarbrick joined the group.  Then there was Steeleye Span, who started off playing more or less 'straight' versions of English Traditional Music with vocalists Gay Woods (then wife of Terry Woods later of The Pogues) and Maddy Prior who remained in the group apart from a short period for forty years with her faultless voice.  And then there was Pentangle, with vocalist Jacqui McShee. 

Pentagle was a fusion of Folk music and Jazz.  They were really what would be termed a 'supergroup'. Their members included bassist Danny Thompson (who was a session musician, one of his early sessions was playing in the orchestra which recorded the origial theme for Thunderbirds).  Then there were two excellent guitarists in Bert Jansch and John Renbourne, both sadly now deceased, ... and I will include a couple of John Renbourne tracks later if I remember ... !

So having thought about which Pentangle track to include, I will choose this one ... House Carpenter

www.youtube.com/watch

I cannot resist putting a Pentangle track on for the Juke Box.

As the sixties turned to the seventies, the age of British Folk-Rock was born, with three outstanding groups of the time having beautiful voices of female vocalists.

There was Fairport Convention, with lead vocalists first Judy Dyble and then Sandy Denny, who went from a transatlantic sound inspired by Jefferson Airplane to Electrifying English Folk music when Dave Swarbrick joined the group.  Then there was Steeleye Span, who started off playing more or less 'straight' versions of English Traditional Music with vocalists Gay Woods (then wife of Terry Woods later of The Pogues) and Maddy Prior who remained in the group apart from a short period for forty years with her faultless voice.  And then there was Pentangle, with vocalist Jacqui McShee. 

Pentagle was a fusion of Folk music and Jazz.  They were really what would be termed a 'supergroup'. Their members included bassist Danny Thompson (who was a session musician, one of his early sessions was playing in the orchestra which recorded the origial theme for Thunderbirds).  Then there were two excellent guitarists in Bert Jansch and John Renbourne, both sadly now deceased, ... and I will include a couple of John Renbourne tracks later if I remember ... !

So having thought about which Pentangle track to include, I will choose this one ... House Carpenter

www.youtube.com/watch

You are right about the beautiful voices of those female vocalists. Still takes my breath away to hear them.