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Originally Posted by Comus
[CENTER]Obscure Tuesday (second review): Mountain Ash Band: The Hermit (1975)
This has been an incredibly hard album to review because of the manner of how it plays out and how the combined effort is just so much more important than the single bits. For an imperfect album it does a lot, and for that reason it deserves a strong |
I think your review is excellent. This for me is a gem of the obscure. Thanks for the heads up. I have enjoyed this long lost pastoral folk album immensely. This is a long and sad life tale that the Mountain Ash Band have told but they have done it with style, not only with wonderful lyricism but also with eclectic folk styles that are also very English. I have imagined that this collection of songs could have been told by travelling minstrels in the mid 1800 at inns up and down Yorkshire. Maybe I am being too romantic. Great stuff Comus and I look forward to more hidden gems that you recommend.