Across The Great Divide: Getting It / Various Across The Great Divide: Getting It / Various CD

UK three CD set. At the height of psychedelia and the worldwide Summer of Love, Traffic retreated from the bright lights of the city and the music industry hurly-burly to get their act together in the wilds of rural Berkshire - where, away from the outside world, they worked on an organic fusion of jazz, folk, pop and R&B elements that would herald a game-changing new maturity in British rock. Over the next twelve months or so, Traffic's symbiosis of bucolic living and naturalistic music would be mirrored by events of the other side of the Atlantic: The Band's rootsy country/soul/R&B stew, The Byrds' move into country-rock and Crosby Stills & Nash's intricate harmonies and acoustic-led instrumentation would all strike a chord with British rock bands and the burgeoning hippie scene in general. Across The Great Divide: Getting It Together In The Country is the first compilation to shine a light on this curiously neglected stitch in the constantly-evolving British rock tapestry of the late Sixties/early Seventies. Joining huge names like Rod Stewart, Traffic and Fairport Convention are cult underground acts, mainstream Sixties pop groups updating their sound, a post-Dylan wave of back-to-the-land singer/songwriters and a clutch of righteously obscure rural rockers whose music failed to find an outlet at the time. Over four hours of music housed in a clamshell box containing a 44-page booklet, Across The Great Divide assiduously charts the fascinating period when a posse of British musicians bravely attempted to build Cripple Creek in perfidious Albion's green and pleasant land before shrugging their shoulders and moving on to either glam-rock, hard rock or the movement's logical successor, the spit-and-sawdust pub rock circuit.

1. Warming Up the Band - Heads Hands ; Feet 2. Cajun Woman - Fairport Convention 3. Home Is Where I Want to Be - Mott the Hoople 4. Devil's Whisper - Mighty Baby 5. Desert Island Woman - Chilli Willi ; the Red Hot Peppers 6. Willowing Trees - Shape of the Rain 7. Abbot of the Vale - Tony Hazzard 8. Louisiana Man - the Hollies 9. Fading - Mason 10. Sleep Song - Unicorn 11. Boy, You've Got the Sun in Your Eyes - Open Road 12. Cousin Norman - the Marmalade 13. Clifftop - Richmond 14. Lady Came Fro the South - Starry Eyed and Laughing 15. Oil Fumes and Sea Air - Stray 16. Red Man - Rare Bird 17. The Pie - the Sutherland Brothers Band 18. Touch Her If You Can - Matthews Southern Comfort 19. Empty Street, Empty Heart - Quicksand 20. Ooh la la - Faces 21. Country Girl - Brinsley Schwarz 22. When I'm Dead and Gone - McGuinness Flint 23. Forty Thousand Headmen - Traffic 24. New Day Avenue - Bronco 25. Try Again - Tranquility 26. Velvet Mountain - Cochise 27. A Souvenir of London - Procol Harum 28. Cinnamon Girl - the Deep Set 29. Day the World Ran Away - Stephen Jameson 30. I'll Just Take My Time - Byzantium 31. It's a Way to Pass the Time - High Broom 32. Going to the Country - Holy Mackerel 33. Liquor Man - Montage* 34. Jesus Is Just Alright - Shelagh McDonald 35. We Both Need to Know - Granny's Intentions 36. Bye and Bye - Heron 37. Country Dan and City Lil - Timebox 38. And a Button - the Searchers 39. Take Me to the Pilot - the Orange Bicycle 40. The Jailer - Natural Gas 41. So Nice - Curtiss Maldoon 42. Million Times Before - Jawbone 43. Open the Door - Carolanne Pegg 44. Country Comfort - Rod Stewart 45. Home for Frozen Roses - Northwind 46. Nice - Bridget St. John 47. Country Road - the Pretty Things 48. Home Grown - Andy Roberts 49. Sheriff Myras Lincoln - Edwards Hand 50. Circle Round the Sun - Marian Segal 51. Pretty Haired Girl - the Parlour Band 52. Hello Buddy - the Tremeloes 53. Tallawaya - Greasy Bear 54. My Name Is Jesus Smith - Man 55. Metropolis - Keith Christmas 56. Country Heir (Single Edit) - Deep Feeling 57. Johnson Boy - Prelude 58. Cottage Made for Two - Paul Brett's Sage 59. See How They Run - Dave Cousins ; Dave Lambert 60. Clear Blue Sky - Mother Nature 61. Dancing Flower - Idle Race 62. Wheel of Fortune - the Illusions 63. My Little One - Gordon, Ellis ; Steel 64. I'll Fly Away (Demo Version) - Plainsong