Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young | Book review

Michel Faber takes a pleasurable trip through the modern British folk phenomenonIn 1968, a beautiful young minstrel called Vashti Bunyan forsook the city and set off on an 18-month journey along the leafy lanes of Albion, in a rickety cart pulled by her horse Bess, heading for a remote Scottish island where the Pied Piper himself had promised to set up a happy haven of artists, musicians and poets. No, this isn't a fable, it's the true story of one of Britain's less famous folk singers, chosen b...

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