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The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings. An important grouping in the genre, it has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers in its long ...
No Roses is an album by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band. It was recorded in the summer of 1971 and produced by Sandy Roberton and Ashley Hutchings, who was Collins' husband at the time. It was released in October 1971 on the Pegasus label. [2] It is very unusual to have 27 musicians and singers on an album of traditional folk songs.
The Albion Band set the words to the hymn tune "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds in a Believer's Ear". "The Postman's Knock": a traditional song associated with the Morris dancing tradition at Adderbury in Oxfordshire. The song had previously appeared on Son of Morris On and the Albion Band recorded it again on the album Lark Rise To ...
The Prospect Before Us is a British folk rock album, by The Albion Dance Band, which was released in 1977 on the EMI Harvest label. The album was produced by Ashley Hutchings and Simon Nicol and was engineered by Vic Gamm. It was recorded at Sound Techniques Studio and Olympic (including live dances at Olympic), London. There are several ...
Parrish is also the singer, guitarist, flute player and songwriter of his own folk rock band Albion. [6] In March 2024, he left Jethro Tull to focus on Albion. [7]
In 2008 he formed The Lark Rise Band to perform and record music from his most successful show, resulting in the album, Lark Rise Revisited (2008). He continues to tour in the Christmas season with the Albion Christmas Band and is plans future projects with ex-Albion Band member Ken Nicol. [7]
Members of the English folk rock band The Albion Band, including its incarnations as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band. Pages in category "The Albion Band members"
Band leader and folk legend Ashley Hutchings pre-empted the unplugged trend of the 1990s by reducing the numbers and instruments of his long running collective the Albion Band by bringing back longtime collaborator and fellow ex-Fairport Convention founder Simon Nicol, beside new talent: singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris While and energetic fiddler Ashley Reed.