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by: Campbell Ian

Release Date 1964
A review by by Richie Unterberger
Ian Campbell & the Ian Campbell Folk Group were Britain's favourite folk performers, bar none, during the '60s. Based in Birmingham, they featured singers Ian and Lorna Campbell of Aberdeen as well as Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg, later of Fairport Convention.
If it sounds dated today, by the standards of its era, it was pretty robust and full-bodied, owing to its frequent multi-voice singing parts and the backing of the vocals of Ian Campbell and his sister Lorna Campbell with banjo, guitar, autoharp, fiddle, and mandola. The latter two instruments are played by Dave Swarbrick, a good half dozen years or so before he joined Fairport Convention; his fiddling is especially to the fore on the ... Read More: