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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 ...
It also guest features The Albion Band and Julie Matthews. The musicians later toured much of the album in January 2001, with one concert subsequently released as "Ridgeriders" In Concert in November 2001.
In 1994 Julie Matthews rejoined the band and the 1995 release Albion Heart included two tracks penned by Chris, as well as the While/Matthews collaborations of 'Man in the Bottle' (with Ashley Hutchings) and together on the title track, which became something of a group anthem and was the first evidence of a fruitful musical collaboration. [5]
Son of Morris On is a British folk rock album released in 1976 under the joint names of Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol, John Tams, Phil Pickett, Michael Gregory, Dave Mattacks, Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, John Watcham, John Rodd, The Albion Morris Men, Ian Cutler, and the Adderbury Village Morris Men.
The Albion Band. Happy Accident (1998) Before Us Stands Yesterday (1999) Christmas Album (1999) Road Movies (2001) An Evening with the Albion Band (2002) Steeleye Span. They Called Her Babylon (2004) Winter (2004) The Official Bootleg (2005) Bloody Men (2006) Cogs Wheels and Lovers (2009) Ken Nicol & Phil Cool. Nicol & Cool (2008) Ken Nicol ...
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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.
Show of Hands formed when Phil Beer took a break from The Albion Band in 1986–87. In the early 1980s, Devonian-based folk musicians Steve Knightley and Phil Beer, who had been friends since 1972, [1] briefly joined Paul Downes' band Arizona Smoke Revue. [2] The band was not the duo's first collaboration or with Downes.