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White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story

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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.

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.

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.