Milk Of The Tree: Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk & Milk Of The Tree: Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk & CD

Three CD collection. Notwithstanding one or two isolated exceptions, it wasn't until the mid-'60s that independent female voices really began to be heard within the music industry. Over the course of four hours and sixty tracks, Milk Of The Tree focuses on the music made in the late '60s and early '70s in both Britain and North America by either female solo artists or acts with featured female vocalists. Along the way, we encounter San Franciscan psychedelia, LA folk rock, Swinging London pop-folk, electric folk, progressive folk and even folk club folk as well as (of course) a plethora of singer- songwriters (including Various ladies of the Canyon) from the movement's golden age. As well as featuring most of the leading figures from both sides of the Atlantic, Milk Of The Tree includes many performers who received little attention at the time but who now have a cult reputation amongst collectors. A significant number of tracks were unreleased at the time, while the set also includes the first-ever appearance by pioneering female rock duo Emily Muff, two American girls who were based in England during the period in question but failed to land a recording contract. With a 44-page booklet crammed with rare photos and details of the Various acts featured, the clambox-housed Milk Of The Tree is not only a fascinating social document but, we hope, a hugely entertaining snapshot of a particular time, place and frame of mind that produced some enduring, spellbinding music.

1. Do You Believe - Melanie 2. Blessed Are... - Joan Baez 3. Light Flight - the Pentangle 4. Foolish Seasons - Dana Gillespie 5. Someone to Talk My Troubles to - Judy Roderick 6. Auntie Aviator - John ; Beverley Martyn 7. Flying Away - the Serpent Power 8. It Could Have Been Better - Joan Armatrading 9. Morning Morgantown - Jude 10. If Not By Fire - Mandy More 11. Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp - Laura Nyro 12. I Thought I Knew the Answers - Susan Pillsbury 13. Give Her the Day - Jaki Whitren 14. By the Sea - Wendy ; Bonnie 15. Come and Stay with Me - Jackie Deshannon 16. Something Better - Marianne Faithfull 17. An Everyday Consumption Song - Spirogyra 18. The Milk of the Tree - Polly Niles 19. Chelsea Girls - Nico 20. Reverie for Roslyn - Mary-Anne 21. Different Drum - Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt 22. Please (MK. II) - Eclection 23. Five of Us - Jade 24. Who Has Seen the Wind? - the Simon Sisters 25. Jesus Was a Cross Maker - Judee Sill 26. January's Snows - the Woods Band 27. In My Loneliness - Trader Horne 28. Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Janis Ian 29. I Was - Lily ; Maria 30. Feeling High - Mellow Candle 31. Tomorrow Come Someday - Tomorrow Come Someday 32. My Silks and Fine Array - Julie Covington 33. Red Wine and Promises - Norma Waterson 34. Mr Fox - Mr Fox 35. The Dream Tree - Buffy Sainte-Marie 36. Munching the Candy - the Academy Featuring Polly Perkins 37. Late November - Sandy Denny 38. Tomorrow Your Sorrow - Hendrickson Road House 39. Mornings - Chuck ; Mary Perrin 40. Mr Rubin - Lesley Duncan 41. Come Into the Garden - Chimera 42. Early Morning Blues and Greens - Diane Hildebrand 43. Rainy Day - Susan Christie 44. Autumn Lullaby - Bridget St. John 45. Ballad (Of the Big Girl Now and a Mere Boy) - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre 46. Windy - Ruthann Friedman 47. The Lonely - Design 48. Mirage - Shelagh McDonald 49. Aderyn Llwyd (Sparrow) - Mary Hopkin 50. Love Song - Vashti Bunyan 51. Winter's Going - Bonnie Dobson 52. Sandman's Song - Anne Briggs 53. When Will I Be Loved - the Bunch 54. The Lady and the Well - Carolanne Pegg 55. Think of Rain - Margo Guryan 56. Story of Our Time/Beneath This Sky - Ithaca 57. Murdoch - Trees 58. Banquet on the Water - the Sallyangie 59. Pass the Night - Emily Muff 60. Morgan the Pirate - Mimi Fari±a