LINDISFARNE

PGI

Radio Times – Live At The BBC 1971-90 REPERTOIRE Folk rock stalwarts get phenomenally comprehensive session vault treatment. Lindisfarne snuck into many early 70s record collections alongside Charisma labelmates and early touring partners Genesis and Van der Graaf Generator. Usually at least semi-acoustic, with cats’ choir nasal folky harmonies that were even wilder in concert, their raucous live incarnations are superbly captured here. The curse of many such compilations, such as the recent Genesis BBC Broadcasts collection, is the disinclination of compilers to include multiple versions of individual songs. – whom these releases are presumably aimed at – want. Happily, this eight-CD box is exhaustively inclusive. So, while there are, for example, crystal-clear takes of the eerie, Edgar Allan Poe-inspired Lady Eleanor (introduced on more than one occasion by an…

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