Postcards Of The Twanging, by The Scrub Jay Orchestra

Postcards Of The Twanging

by The Scrub Jay Orchestra

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	1.	Chattanooga Papa 03:13
	2.	Handful Of Rain 03:25
	3.	Pontchartrain 04:35
	4.	South Coast Bound 02:47
	5.	Going Across The Mountains 02:21
	6.	The Spring Of '65 03:53
	7.	Hobo Bill's Last Ride 04:18
	8.	I Can't Be Satisfied 03:09

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Kicking off 50 years ago in 1973 and throughout the rest of the 1970s, the southern English duo of Ian A Anderson & Maggie Holland – under the name Hot Vultures – were one of the hardest working groups on the UK and European folk circuits. They did many hundreds of club, festival and concert gigs covering several hundred thousands of miles in their trusty VW bus. For their three albums (the third of which even achieved American release, fairly unusual for UK folk names in that era) and whenever possible live, they also recruited many other excellent musicians of the day.

One of the guests on both their second and third LPs was young guitar and banjo wizard Martin Simpson who had just released his debut LP Golden Vanity at the beginning of a stellar career which would eventually see him recognised as one of the world’s best folk guitar players and be a multiple BBC Folk Awards winner.

This special release gathers together the tracks they recorded back then, some on CD for the first time.

In 1979 the trio toured clubs and festivals to acclaim under the name of The Scrub Jay Orchestra, before Ian and Maggie became members of the English Country Blues Band (and later electric band Tiger Moth), and Martin began a celebrated partnership with singer June Tabor.

Scrub Jays are American birds that feed on acorns, the fruit of that very English of trees, the oak. The Scrub Jay Orchestra were definitely English creatures who fed on old American roots…

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released July 26, 2023

Ian A. Anderson: vocal, guitar, slide guitar
Maggie Holland: vocal, electric bass guitar, guitar, banjo
Martin Simpson: guitar, banjo, acoustic bass guitar, b. vocal

Recorded 1977 and 1979 by John Gill

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