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Hart took this opportunity to release a solo album, Tim Hart, in 1979. [1] Steeleye Span members Maddy Prior, Rick Kemp, and Nigel Pegrum contributed vocals, bass, drums, and percussion. [5] Bob Johnson and Peter Knight recorded a narrative project in 1977, The King of Elfland's Daughter.
After a brief stint with Mac MacLeod in 'Mac & Maddy' (another act formed at The Cock pub), by 1966 she began performing with Tim Hart, another St Albans resident, and together they recorded two albums before becoming founding members of Steeleye Span in 1969. [2]
Summer Solstice is a 1971 album by Maddy Prior and Tim Hart. [1] The album was recorded after the duo had joined Steeleye Span.The songs are mostly pastoral, with subtle understated instrumental accompaniment.
My Very Favourite Nursery Rhymes is an album by Tim Hart and Friends. By 1981 both Tim Hart and Maddy Prior had children, so it was appropriate to create an album of children's songs. The treatment is very light and poppy. The clever use of synthesisers makes it seems as if there is a whole orchestra present at times. Tim takes the lead on most ...
Steeleye Span is a British folk rock band formed by bassist Ashley Hutchings after he left Fairport Convention in 1969, the original line-up also included duo Tim Hart (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Maddy Prior (vocals) and husband and wife team Terry Woods (guitar, concertina, mandolin, vocals) and Gay Woods (vocals, bodhran, concertina, autoharp). [1]
"Copshawholme Fair" had two years earlier been recorded by Prior and Tim Hart on their album Folk Songs of Olde England Vol. 2. Copshaw Holm, otherwise known as Newcastleton, has been the site of a folk festival since 1970. Maddy Prior has lived nearby, just over the border in Cumbria, at 'Stones Barn' for several years.
Kemp has played bass on a number of Maddy Prior records, and was a member of the Maddy Prior Band in the 1980s. The 1990 album Happy Families was officially credited to "Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp". He also played on solo albums by former Steeleye Span member Tim Hart in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Drunken Sailor and other Kids Favorites is an album by Tim Hart and Friends.. This album follows Tim Hart's first collection "My Very Favorite Nursery Rhymes". There is a greater variety in treatment - "Hush Little Baby" is sung as a calypso, with the tune of "Island in the Sun" on oil-drums creeping in at the end.