King Henry - Steeleye Span

1987 Philadelphia Folk Festival

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Music

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• Folk
• Music
• Festival
• Steeleye
• Span

[tjmck74]

I saw this LIVE as a 13 yr old, dragged to the Phila Folk Fest by my parents. Hated every second of it then, but think it's terrific now.

[Taylor510ceL9]

Sometimes, parents actually do know stuff.

[GRALISTAIR]

Yes - good song - not as good on this version as on the Album Below the Salt - my 2nd Steeleye Span album

[motherthing]

@unknownkingdom It is just a poor audio system or recording, which is why the instrumentation sounds off as well. If you spent a few seconds checking, you would find better recordings here on YouTube, and that this band and Maggie Prior (the "female singer") is very famous and highly skilled.

[unknownkingdom]

Wow, bad.

The female singer is off key much of the time

[Sammicsno]

what is the background to this song?

[MrTezza13]

I've been a fan of STEELEYE for many ,many years.There music is timeless.Any-one know of the fanclub details?

[FenianandLimey]

I must admit I have not listened to these songs since the 1970's, when Ian Anderson sponsered them. Yet I know these particular songs by heart. I lost all my old albums in a house fire. Hey, they're still in my heart! God bless Tull and Steeleye Span.

[BrxSmith]

I will say that, having all these albums on LP, the newer remasters do sound better - gloriously so. The original CDs sounded simultaneously harsh and muddy compared to the vinyl as analog-to-digital converters were in their infancy then, but the new releases are fantastic. There's "space in the mix," and they never sounded better. The box I mentioned IS a collection, but at least the albums are complete, and it's a great price for five remastered albums. Makes me happy at a high volume!

[BrxSmith]

Yes - it kills me that the remaster of "Rocket Cottage" is out of print already. The recent release of "Ten Man Mop" does sound fantastic.

The "Parcel of Steeleye" set starts with "Below the Salt" because that's their first album on the Chrysalis label. I think it's Chrysalis, not the band, who's behind the re-releases. However, as the original Shanachie discs (among the first CDs I owned in the very early '90s) sound rather lousy, I'm ecstatic about the remaster job on this set!

[viking1au]

It seems that Steeleye keep re-releasing boxed sets etc of old stuff to keep the cash coming in; although I once got 10 Man Mop on cd, those days seem gone. They are all compilations and it is hard finding too much from the Martin Carthy albums. Might be a manarement thing as Steeleye became a band with an almost constantly revolving door. -- I am about to transfer Stormforce 10 to cd & my computer. It is so good (like 10 Man Mop) I want to avoid wear & tear on it, while it is still pristine.

[viking1au]

Great; checked this out on Amazon. No point to it if one has all (I think) original albums. Interesting point is that of the 3 cd's, there is NOTHING from the album 10 Man Mop (..etc), perhaps their best period, with Martin Carthy. He left in 71 (as did Ashley Hutchings) and rejoined in '77 for their "Stormforce 10" album, which also included Tim Hart, even though Maddy had left him for Rick Kemp, also on the album. A great album, even though Martin later left again, feeling it was a mistake.

[BrxSmith]

Hilarious - do you mean "fairy" or an actual boat? Brilliant.

Steeleye Span will live on forever.