Wizz Jones, Dave Evans, Steve Tilston and others: Ghosts from the Basement | Folk review

(Weekend Break)It's only right that the success of the current folk revival should lead to renewed interest in the mavericks of the first British folk movement, back in the 60s and 70s, but attention has tended to concentrate on the London scene and the artists who recorded for Transatlantic, Topic or Island. This intriguing set of "lost songs, dreams and folkadelia from the vaults of Village Thing, 1970-74" is a reminder that there was also a healthy experimental folk scene in Bristol, where...

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