Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

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Tillinghast, Richard (2012). "Electric Guitars on the Village Green (Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young)". Hudson Review. 65 (2): 340–344. ISSN 0018-702X. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\12 - The Dream.wav Hirst, Christopher (August 5, 2011). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". The Independent. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. I was surprised to learn that the word folk was not used in the way we use it until the mid nineteenth century. Folk appeared to be linked to an urge to reconnect with older times, and Eden and other utopias enjoy a powerful symbolic presence in English literature and music. There’s this desire attached to folk music, that it should stem from the idyllic age before the First World War, before the industrial revolution, although that is rarely the case. Revivals happen when people realise things are on the verge of extinction. Sharp met hundreds of what he called "the common people", who sang songs to him that had been passed down to them through the generations, songs that retained their mystery and power even though the events that inspired them – anything from a good harvest to the murder of an infant – had long since passed into myth. The songs were, in fact, the transmitters of those myths, evoking an older, predominantly agrarian England that increasingly existed only in memory.Young's grasp of context is enviable, his knowledge encyclopaedic . . . Electric Eden constructs a new mythography out of old threads, making antiquity glow with an eerie hue.” — Peter Murphy, Sunday Business Post Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\13 - The Pipe On The Hob.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\13 - Murder Of Maria Marten.wav Crucially, Watkins's book points out how easy it is for the reader to take part in the survey of ley lines, simply by taking a map and ruler and rambling out into almost any part of the British countryside: antiquarianism for weekend rovers. ‘The clear, modest style…invoke[s] the same genius terrae britannicae from the red Herefordshire earth that inspired [his] mystic predecessors, Traherne and Henry Vaughan,' Michell continues. ‘There would be no poetry without heretics.'

Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\06 - Gypsy Davey.wav An exhaustive, widely researched, lovingly written book about the mythic roots of folk music originating in the UK . . . Beautifully panoramic in scope.” — Suzanne Vega Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\19 - Fly High.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\14 - False Knight On The Road.wav Just as she had found doors closing to her as a prospective singer in London, so she was finding a similar attitude prevailing on the roads of late-1960s Britain. But in spite of the difficulties, Bunyan and Lewis pressed on doggedly, and she found the muse again. While Lewis kept his diary, Vashti's songs were mysteriously being written – often frail wisps of things, or autobiographical road songs like ‘Jog Along Bess' that were little more than extensions of their exhortations to the horse. With a flavour of nursery rhymes, Beatrix Potter's animal tales and Donovan's benign self-mythology, Bunyan's songs most of all resembled lullabies, charms to ward off danger and dread in the midst of adversity. ‘I think the most jiggedy-joggedy songs were written in the worst bits of industrial England,' she says, ‘where it was really horrible to be going through. Like the outskirts of Manchester, where there were a whole lot of children in the street without shoes.'Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\12 - Time Machine.wav Ten years ago, working as an editor at Faber on a music list that was still very much in its adolescent years of development, I published a book called Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young. It is now one of the most acclaimed and cherished music titles of the 21 stcentury literary canon. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\08 - Stranger In The World.wav His international fame was at its zenith. He had just featured on the cover of the inaugural issue of Rolling Stone, and this Glasgowborn youth was styling himself ‘the last of the English minstrels'2 in interviews. He had attempted to escape the mounting legal wranglings over his music by fleeing to a Greek island, but the exile had not worked, and now he declared he was seeking ‘a place where the twentieth century had never existed'.3 More to come… meanwhile: you can laugh at my early mood-sketch for the book cover (making absolutely no claims as a graphic designer!) and the final result of the 1st edition…