Before The Day Is Done: Story Of Folk Heritage Before The Day Is Done: Story Of Folk Heritage CD

Two CD anthology of the fiercely-collected Folk Heritage label and related satellites/ spin-offs. Four-hour compilation featuring tracks from some of the most valuable British folk albums of the early 70s. Third instalment of Grapefruit's underground British folk triptych that started with much- acclaimed releases 'Dust On The Nettles' and 'Sumer Is Icumen In'. Founded in the Greater Manchester area in 1968 by the late Alan Green, the Folk Heritage label and it's subsequent associated imprints - Midas, Sweet Folk & Country, Westwood, Real - was an obscure but dedicated home for the grass-roots element of the British folk boom. Throughout the 70s, Folk Heritage and it's offshoots released limited-edition pressings of albums by various bands and singers, most of whom were active on the thriving north-west England folk club circuit. With most releases limited to 200 copies or less, and only available from the folk club where the performer was resident, many of the albums have gone on to become hugely collectable. Before The Day Is Done assembles the cream of the label's roster during it's late 60s/early 70s heyday. It features tracks from the rarest, most valuable releases, including legendary-among-collectors names like Gallery, The Oldest Proffession, Folkal Point, The Minor Birds, Mike Raven/Joan Mills and Spinning Jenny. Folk club stalwarts like The Taverners, Rosie Hardman and The Harvesters are also represented, while there's also space for bands of a more folk-rock persuasion (Saraband, Stained Glass, Music Box) and acoustic guitar-wielding singer-songwriters (Christie Hennessy, Janet Jones, Jancis Harvey, Stuart Marson, etc).

1. Songs of Sunshine - Music Box 2. High in the Trees - Christie Hennessy 3. Death and the Lady - Michael Raven and Joan Mills 4. Marcie - Penny Wager 5. Sweet Sir Galahad - Folkal Point 6. Visions of Cumbria - Mike Donald 7. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Blue Horizon 8. Photographs - Porter Cunningham 9. Lazy Day - Peregrine 10. She Moved Through the Fair - the Harvesters 11. Cold Haily Rainy Night - the Yardarm 12. The Old Woman's Lament - Janet Jones 13. Butcher Boy - Spinning Jenny 14. Anathea - the Oldest Proffession 15. Fanny Blair - the Combine Harvester 16. Queen of Hearts - Gallery 17. The Two Butchers - the Jovial Crew 18. You Keep Going Your Way - the Young Folk 19. You Were There - Margaret and Ian 20. Three Drunken Maidens - Drowsy Maggie 21. Retrospect - Saraband 22. Hedgehog's Song - Geoff Smedley 23. Oats and Beans/Turkey Rhubarb - John and Christine 24. Hard Times of Old England - the Taverners Folk Group 25. Matty Groves - the Wayfarers 26. Dancers of Stanton Drew - Parke 27. Lord Lovell - the Minor Birds 28. January Man - Paul and Glen 29. Old Pendle - the Pendlefolk 30. Geraldine - Mabel Joy 31. Yesterday's Rain - Saga 32. Lark in the Morning - the Blue Water Folk 33. April Come She Will - the MacDonald Folk Group 34. Wild and Free - Stained Glass 35. Pretty Saro - Rosemary Hardman 36. The Two Magicians - Horden Raikes 37. Land of the Old and Grey - Mike Donald 38. Blackleg Miner - the Bards 39. Summer Comes October (Aka the Long and Lonely Winter) - the Yardarm 40. Twenty Years - Michael Raven and Joan Mills 41. Travelling People - the Young Folk 42. Mice and Old Clocks - Friends O'Mine 43. 4 + 20 - Jack Hudson 44. Cannily Cannily - Folkways 45. The Female Drummer - the Oldest Proffession 46. All Through the Night - Peregrine 47. Icy Acres - Gallery 48. Close to It All - Saraband 49. Take Me for Your Friend - Raggerty 50. Connemara Cradle Song - Spinning Jenny 51. Grey October - the Minor Birds 52. The Trees They Do Grow High - Parke 53. Ballad of a Falmouth Man - Saga 54. The False Bride - the Harvesters 55. Heading for the Sun - Rod Neep 56. Oh So Nice - Oddsocks 57. Christmas and Tchaikovsky - Stuart Marson 58. All I Wanna Do Is Play Guitar - Dave Lewry 59. A Week Before Easter - Jancis Harvey 60. Snail - Steve Rostron 61. What's the Point - the Mug Band 62. The White Hare of Oldham - Brian Dewhurst ; Tom Tiddler's Ground 63. Elizabethan - the Bards 64. Poll Miles - Stained Glass 65. Cruel War - the MacDonald Folk Group 66. Once I Knew a Pretty Girl - Folkal Point 67. I'll Keep It with Mine - Penny Wager 68. All the Good Times - the Blue Water Folk