White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story [Import, Original recording remastered]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Fledg'ling UK
• ASIN: B000FILWRM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,945 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Crossroads - Eric Clapton & The Powerhouse

2. Way Back In The 1960s - The Incredible String Band

3. Because It Wouldn't Pay - Johnny Handle

4. Spanish Ladies Medley - Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy & Diz Disley

5. Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd

6. Granny Takes A Trip - The Purple Gang

7. She's Gone - Soft Machine

8. If I Had A Ribbon Bow - Fairport Convention

9. Seven Yellow Gypsies - Shirley Collins

10. Chinese White - The Incredible String Band

11. Autopsy - Fairport Convention

12. The Deserter - Fairport Convention

13. Poor Boy - Nick Drake

14. The Sea- Fotheringay

15. Flowers Of The Forest - Mike Heron

16. Come Wind Come Rain - Vashti Bunyan

17. Primrose Hill - John & Beverley Martyn

18. I Don't Mind - The New Nadir (Previously Unreleased)

19. Church Mouse - Dudu Pukwana & Spear (Previously Unreleased)

20. Andromeda - Chris Mcgregor's Brotherhood Of Breath

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Boyd produced and was instrumental in creating some of the most important recordings of the 1960s (as well as the '70s and '80s). He is best known for his work with English folk musicians, having shaped the early sounds of Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band, Fotheringay, John Martyn and Nick Drake. But he also provided the base of the early sounds of Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Soft Machine, Nico, Geoff & Maria Muldaur and Shirley Collins. This collection brings you some of Boyd's exemplary pieces from the 1960's by the aforementioned artists and many more. Also featured are two previously unreleased tracks from Boyd's archive by The New Nadir and Dudu Pukwana & Spear. Discover the modern glory days of making records in a period when musicians could share their musical abilities with a master sound auteur, resulting in recordings that remain fresh and transcend time.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A companion piece, May 7, 2007

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E.I.E.I. Owen (Philadelphia, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This CD is basically a companion piece to Joe Boyd's book of the same name containing key selections of the bands he produced / managed. Joe Boyd was an American who helped shape the careers of Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd and others by being a great producer and even greater manger with enough understanding about the music biz and the musicians under his Witchseason Productions company. I could go on but if your interested into what was happening in swinging London during the mid to late 60's than get this along with Boyd's book and you can have fun with a "six-degrees-of-separation" involving key players in the music business of the 1960's.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great CD for a great book., November 10, 2009

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B Lee (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story (Audio CD)

An awesome British folk-rock primer. Only short of 5 stars for lack of a second disc.

Buy the book too -- a fascinating journey.

The only thing better than either would be a documentary.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Read the book - buy the individual artist's albums, November 20, 2010

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hot4hypatia (29.48 N , 98.51 W) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story (Audio CD)

I loved the book (see my review here as well) but I think Joe seriously overrates some of these artists; maybe because they were such good 'mates' way back when.
Richard Thompson is an excellent guitarist, but this isn't his best stuff. Most of the other music has aged badly and the styles/artists really didn't much influence the music that followed. Joe says they did but I really don't see it.

The Nick Drake and Sandy Denny pieces are excellent, but I'd buy their albums instead of this one.