Robin Williamson & His Merry Band - American Stonehenge (1978 full album)
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- American Stonehenge is a folk album released in 1978 by Robin Williamson and his Merry Band. This album was produced by Robin Williamson and engineered by Dirk Dalton at Dirk Dalton Recording, Santa Monica, California, in December 1977.
1 "Port London Early"
2 "Pacheco"
3 "Keepsake"
4 "Zoo Blues"
5 "These Islands Green"
6 "The Man In The Van"
7 "Sands And The Glass"
8 "Her Scattered Gold"
9 "When Evening Shadows Fall"
10 "Rab's Last Woolen Testament"
This is about the time Robin was living a few doors down from me on Avocado Street in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles where many streets are named in deference to Sir Walter Scott. Even though he spent a lot of time in California, Robin's Scottishness always surfaced. Down Los Feliz Blvd a bit was the Tam O'Shanter restaurant, where Walt Disney and his crew ate lunch in the early days when Walt's studio and home were in Los Feliz; Hearing this great album reminds me of so much good times and people.
One of the most underrated folk-albums ever. It surely changed my life, made me start a band and compose my own music.
And lived happily in poverty for ever after!
@@martinkent333 So it is...
All 3 Merry Band records are outstanding. On this one Pacheco, Keepsake, These Islands Green are also brilliant - but I agree Man in the Van is the absolute pick - really eerie and powerful
Please post some music!!! I wanna hear how you were influenced ;=)
And this is, when we supported Robin during one of his concerts in Germany: ua-cam.com/video/P35v0Ir8Rq8/v-deo.html
still got original vinyl brilliant sounds
He's had many high moments in his musical life, and this album is one of them. Certainly this band he put together was another high point. They made this and 'Glint at the Kindling' - standouts in the history of modern folk music and his very real take on it. A.S. is a seamless melding of new and old world music; no obviousness, and still with his unique guitar playing, singing and composition. Heard a later live version of Man in the Van, and he'd moved it on, in his continual flowing way. Same with (the much later) Skull and Nettlework - how they differ!
bloody fantastic folk genius
Damn Tootin!
Thank you. I lost this album in one of my many moves. This is just beautiful.
ETERNAL ALBUM, PURE BEAUTY.
Robin Williamson is crazy sounds yes it blows up my mind BOOM SHANKAR
Es la banda a la que pertenezco, la dé la antigua alegra, la del magnífico canto de los pájaros... I. S. B. ,Studio der Frühen Musik, Murmur
.Mori. Gracias!!!
Massively wonderful joyful music!
like a holy water enema after 3 days of binge watching christian brainwashing videos on youtube! hallelujah!
wow, the way that rock is stood on smaller rocks like it is trying to say something! wonderful as is Robin :)
Still, SO so good.
Music snob! I love every tiny bit!
@@martinkent333 Is English your second language? You don’t seem to have any understanding of it.
@@johnlang4837 ??
Here and there there's still the whiff of genius though. :-)
"The Man In The Van" is by orders of magnitude better than Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". And there's noting restrained or manicured in the vocal delivery. Oddly, they were better in concert than on record, so your observation is not without merit.
May you be lucky to have the rest of his shit spew on you. Are ye tone deaf, lassie?
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Love Robin! Helped me find Scientology which helped me reach toward the infinite. Thank you Robin
Bless yer wee soul, I hope you recover!
Scientology is a dangerous money making scam, sent Likky of ISB insane
Thank you, can you fill thisin with the others if you get a chance (incredible string band, etc.), nice to be able to do one stop eavesdropping, ha ha!
"The Man In The Van"
I GOT THIS VINYL FOR SALE
Robin can conjure up musical magic, but not on this album, I fear.
Another way to say that. Is that the "zaniness" is too often all too self-conscious, as opposed to etc.
Fussy music snob.
@@martinkent333 If anything, this music is what's fussy. It's like second-rate Jethro Tull circa "Songs From the Wood" (which itself was already third-rate Tull).
@@jackal59 Only music snobs don't orgasm with "Songs From there Wood."
@@jackal59 The comparison does not stand..... This band is folk rock in the like of Gryphon in places and some others in that league. I do not know anything about this particular band. Une affaire de taste. one could say.
Like a lot of his solo stuff, it's the album of a man who can't decide what style of music he should do. The band obviously have talent but the songs aren't his strongest. That haggis-wearing, tartan-eating number about Scotland is a bit of a toe-curler.
Too manicured for my taste. I'm thinking it was Scientology that destroyed that once so wonderful, wackadoodle ISB charm.
ISB-medicine? ISB-law? why Scientology? i hoped to hear a kind of the 70th Wickermansoundtrack with an okkult-charme
@@harthart8039 I think ISB is "incredible string band"
Yeah, music snobs are too good to live. Let's kill and eat them.......................
Scientology, stay away from it
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