The Amazing Blondel and other Faces LP
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Amazing Blondel are an English acoustic progressive folk band, consisting of Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Islands Records in the early 1970s. They are sometimes categorised as psych folk or medievel folk rock, but their music was much more a reinvention of renaissance music, based around the use of period instruments such as lutes and recorders.
John Gladwin and Terry Wincott had both played in a loud "electric" band called Methuselah. However, at some point in Methuselah concerts, the duo would play an acoustic number together: they found that this went down well with the audiences and allowed them to bring out more of the subtlety of their singing and instrumental work. They left Methuselah in 1969 and began working on their own acoustic material.
Initially their material was derived from folk music, in line with many of the other performers of the time. However, they began to develop their own musical idiom, influenced, at one extreme, by the early music revivalists such as David Munrow.
Artist
Title/Year
Lable / No
Sleeve
Record
The Amazing Blondel
The Amazing Blondel & other Faces
(1970)
Bell Records
SBLL131
EX/EX
Some minimal corner wear, and a few light creases
EX+/EX-
1 light scratch across track 4 b side ‘Minstrels Song’
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