Across The Airwaves: BBC Radio Recordings 1969-1974 (Import) (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Folk  »  British Folk
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: June 5, 2007
• Label: Hux Records (UK)
• UPC: 682970000879
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106223757
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #106180 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1599 in Folk (See Top 100 Folk Bestsellers)
• #117 in British Folk (See Top 100 British Folk Bestsellers)

Like they have before with so many other quintessentially British bands, the ridiculously deep BBC archives deliver once again with ACROSS THE AIRWAVES: BBC RADIO RECORDINGS 1969-1974 by the Incredible String Band. Fans, rejoice: this two disc set captures Mike Williamson and Scott Heron's latter days as well as any previous collection. Revealing the true scope and diversity of the band's catalog, the set includes only a handful of songs that were released on proper Incredible String Band albums.

The rest are scattered bits--songs that appeared later on solo records, unreleased tracks, improvisations--that present a side-glance history of the band's second era, albeit a comprehensive and dizzyingly impressive one. "Raga Puti" finds them in full-tilt electric raga mode with guitar work as accomplished as Richard Thompson's; "Secret Temple," a beautifully off-kilter ballad features tender harpsichord and Licorice McKenzie on vocals; and their Carter Family cover, "You've Been A Friend to Me," reveals an oft-hidden fondness for American roots music. ACROSS THE AIRWAVES shows that even at their most eclectic, the Incredible String Band were among the era's most accomplished instrumentalists and musicologists. It is no wonder, then, that none other than Jimmy Page and Robert Plant thought them Britain's finest band.

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