Stroll on Revisited

Stroll on Revisited

Track Listings

1. Fire and Wine

2. Finite Time

3. Silly Summer Games

4. Springsong

5. Monkey Puzzle Tree

6. Farewell Green Leaves

7. Spirit of Christmas

8. Morris Minor

9. Candlemas Carol

10. John Donne Song

11. Old Rock 'n' Roll

12. Love in a Funny Way

13. Lord Bateman

14. Follow On

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Long regarded as a masterpiece, this release is remastered from the original tapes with three bonus tracks from the 1971 sessions, 'The Spirit Of Christmas', 'Old Rock 'N' Roll' & 'Love In A Funny Way', featuring Fairport Convention amongst other guests. With its 16-page booklet of pictures, lyrics & critics notes, this is a must have for fans of English pastoral folk rock music. Market Square Records. 1999.

Tracks:

Fire and Wine
Finite Time
Silly Summer Games
Springsong
Monkey Puzzle Tree
Farewell Green Leaves
Spirit of Christmas
Morris Minor
Candlemas Carol
John Donne Song
Old Rock 'n' Roll
Love in a Funny Way
Lord Bateman
Follow On

Album Description

Long regarded as a masterpiece, this release is remastered from the original tapes with three bonus tracks from the 1971 sessions, 'The Spirit Of Christmas', 'Old Rock 'N' Roll' & 'Love In A Funny Way', featuring Fairport Convention amongst other guests. With its 16-page booklet of pictures, lyrics & critics notes, this is a must have for fans of English pastoral folk rock music. Market Square Records. 1999.

Album Details

English Folk Singer / Songwriter's Acclaimed 1974 Debut Now Reissued with Extra Tracks from the 1971 Sessions and Very Rare 1974 Single with Fairport Convention's Nine Memebers!

Customer Reviews:

atmospheric seasonal lyrics.......2007-06-07

Thirty years ago I listened to this album on many rainy winter nights in the Pacific Northwest, then lost the album during a move to the Southwest, and the memory of the album kept coming back to me at Christmas time over the years. I loved the interesting vocal style of Steve Ashley, the British folk themes (including a John Donne poem)and especially the reflection on the seasons of the year conveyed in the lyrics - almost a meditation on the changing seasons and the feelings evoked by the change of season which I especially identified with when I lived in the Northwest. This is a unique album that I'm glad I re-discovered.

A unique voice in the Brit-folk scene.......2002-08-22

One of those "lost legendary albums" we keep hearing about, but in this case a genuine folk revival gem that is certainly worth checking out. Ashley was a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who was in the general orbit of the fabled Fairport Convention, and plenty of famous folks play with him on this lovely little album, including Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Danny Thompson and others. It's familiar-sounding material, straight out of the shaggy-haired, dancing-with-elves scene, yet Ashley's work definitely has an individual stamp to it, a beguiling mix of traditionalism and the searching, spacy mysticism that marked the work of contempraries like Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. Not as cohesive (or perhaps, dare I say it?) as commercial an album as all the oft-cited classic LPs of the Brit-folk canon, but that may be what makes this dsic worth tracking down -- Ashley does have a different take on things, a distinctive voice in a genre that quite often fell back on familiar stylistic conventions...

A great album.......2001-01-10

What marks a classic? Maybe its the extra tracks? I remember this album the first time around when the UK's Sunday Times described Steve Ashley as the greatest songwriter in the country. Bit strong but it measured the strength of feeling at the time. This album got great reviews in the 70s and so has this reissue. He was an accomplished writer of music and lyric and Stroll On is probably his finest hour (at least so far as I see another album is on the way). I think this is an even better record as they have located extra tracks from the recording sessions. Check out the quality of these - most extra tracks are the dreck that didn't and couldn't fit. Not so Ashley's for Stroll On - they are gems. Recommended for collectors of English folk rock.

eh.......2000-12-17

not nick drake - not even close. not great british folk, like (in no particular order) fairport, richard thompson martin carthy, bert jansch, madonna, john renborn, pentangle, steeleye span, sandy denny, or annie briggs. not a long lost folk classic, not a seminal album, -- but not that cheesy jazzbo john martyn crud, and not really bad.