Folksangere 1967

[@Scion3Sevens]

absolutely essential !!! things were breaking out all over - and soon Pentangle, Fairport, and Steeleye would form, along with all the other associated acts and solo artists that made the English Folk-Rock such a superb musical movement !!

[@christianlacheze3323]

John Renbourn flies over the strings in such a beautiful, dreamy way

[@julianvickery8341]

Pre-Pentangle brilliance. Thank you. A poignant testament to the genius of those - like Bert and John - who helped to spawn a whole new generation of immensely talented and memorable folk-blues musicians.

[@BertisGuitar]

This is a find - Bert & John working out the arrangement for Bells.

[@Jonpriley]

Yes - as I said, it's on youtube already elsewhere, but this is more complete.

[@Asharpseven]

I only saw Marc Sullivan play once, way back in in the 1960s, when he briefly flashed across the guitar firmament. He had a brilliant percussive guitar style and plainly had the potential to be in the same league as his heroes, John, Bert and Davey. I wonder what happened to him

[@JohnMcPhersonStrutt]

Re:- Titles of Carthy & Swarbrick's instrumental, the jig is The Frieze britches aka. The Friar's britches aka. Cunla (after the song that Seamus Ennis translated from Irish and set to it). The second tune (the reel) i am less sure, but i think it's called the High reel.

[@ask4982]

Thank you so much for putting this up. Bringing great folk music to future generations!❤

[@gagagrandadpeel1455]

Our cultural history, so wonderful !

[@gregoryirwin263]

This is pure gold thank you for sharing

[@MIKE-TYTHON]

Wow 😮 Iv only seen clips from this, didn’t know the full thing existed still. Thanks for the upload. 🙏✌️

[@avishy938]

Wonderful! Thank you

[@freddieblue6351]

Thank you!!! Love this

[@Guyhart]

Fantastic. Thanks Jon!

[@bertilknudsen]

The first piece by Swarb and Carthy at the end is called Cunla, an Irish tune, I guess..

[@Jonpriley]

Great, thanks!

[@thecaveofthedead]

How wonderful to see the whole thing. Just a pity they wasted time by asking everyone about drugs. You can clearly see how that whole moral panic was building in the '60s by the exaggerated interest in the subject.

[@vincentlussier8264]

This is serious guitar playing and I mean serious! Yeah there's lots of speedy electric shredders today but these guys can't play finger picking like these folk players who can kick the holy crap out of these acoustic players!

[@brucebherman7721]

Tack haha :-)

[@jaforsatan]

Where are all the songs about drugs that the interviewer keeps banging on about? Some fantastic clips, though.

[@Jonpriley]

Well, there aren't any - not in the film anyway. Drugs, sleaze and miniskirts (in a missing clip) seem to have been the director's main obsessions. Hey, it's "swinging London", man, where can I get all these drugs I've heard about? You can see the interviewees (both Marc and Bert) looking a little baffled at what they clearly think is an irrelevant and rather uninteresting question.

[@DeltaJazzUK]

The interviewer seems determined to get them to admit to some kind of fiendish drug-fueled excess if only they'll stop playing that weird music for a minute! Interesting that John's 'I know my Babe' has the same ineffable melancholy as the LP version and is all but impossible to replicate even when you play the same notes. Guess it is all in the fingers after all.

[@zootszabo2415]

Sullivan sounds like Renbourn? My who copied who?

[@Jonpriley]

He learned more from Renbourn than vice versa, but they all copied Davy Graham anyway. 😉

[@zootszabo2415]

@@Jonpriley YES AND SHINED AS HAVING THEIR OWN STYLE EVENTUALLY. I ENDED UP BETWEEN BERT JANSCH AND GRANT GREEN LOL

[@houghmagandie]

Does anyone know anything about Mark Sullivan? And who the girl might be doing the crossword on the sofa?

[@Jonpriley]

It's Marc, and he never recorded under his own name (as far as anyone knows), but - from a discogs search - he seems to have recorded in France in the late 60s with a musician named Graeme Wright. I don't know who the girl is, but presumably either Bert's or John's partner. In 1967, Bert was with Judy Nicola Cross, and John married Judy Hill in 1967. So it's a fair bet her name was Judy, I just don't know which one!😃

[@houghmagandie]

@@Jonpriley Thanks!

[@donaldraby2892]

The wonderful Anne Briggs on the crossword

[@Jonpriley]

@@donaldraby2892 Really? Are you sure? How do you know?

[@mill-sound]

The Danish voiceover says that this clip is recorded at Bert and John’s flat. That would likely make the location the house on Somali Road they shared with Anne. So it seems pretty likely that it’s her on the crossword. Shame they didn’t include her in the documentary really.@@Jonpriley

[@dovic86]

lol journalists in the 60s were obsessed by drugs in the music business