Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival is a live album by The Albion Band.
Tracks 1 to 6 were recorded in 1977 and tracks 7 to 11 were recorded in 1987.
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Folk music is hard to define. Wikipedia really struggles but does identify some characteristics for folk or traditional music:
It was transmitted through an oral tradition.
The music was often related to national culture.
They commemorate historical and personal events.
The songs have been performed, by custom, over a long period of time.
There can be a fusion of cultures as people with different background mix together.
There was a significant revival in the interest in folk music after World war 2 creating what some people call contemporary folk music. This was originally acoustic based but from the mid 1960s onwards with The Byrds and Bob Dylan, it was electrified to create folk rock.
Folk and Folk Rock Live Albums Of The 1970s
Albion Band Vintage Albion Band On The Road 1977 1981 1982
The Albion Band Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival 1977 1987
The Albion Band BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert 1977 1982
The Band Rock Of Ages 1971
The Band Live At The Academy Of Music 1971
The Band Carter Barron Amphitheater Washington DC July 17th 1976
The Band The Last Waltz 1976
The Bothy Band BBC Radio One Live In Concert 1976 1978
The Boys Of The Lough Live At Passim 1974
The Byrds Live At Royal Albert Hall 1971
Sandy Denny Live At The BBC 1966 to 1973
Sandy Denny Gold Dust Live At The Royalty 1977
Donovan Rising / Atlantis / The Classics Live / 25 Years In Concert 1971 1981
Fairport Convention Live At The BBC 1968 to 1974
Fairport Convention House Full Live At The LA Troubadour 1970
Fairport Convention Fairport Live Convention 1973 1974
Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny Ebbets Field 1974
Fairport Convention Before The Moon 1974
Grateful Dead Skull & Roses 1971
Grateful Dead Europe 72
Grateful Dead Europe 72 Vol. 2
Grateful Dead Steppin Out With The Grateful Dead England 72
The Holy Modal Rounders Bird Song Live 1971
Horslips Live 1976
Bert Jansch The River Sessions 1974
Jethro Tull Bursting Out 1978
Nic Jones Unearthed
Nic Jones Game Set Match
Lindisfarne Live 1971
Lindisfarne City Song BBC Sessions 1971 1972
Lindisfarne Magic In The Air 1977
Magna Carta Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1971
Magna Carta In Concert 1971
Magna Carta Live In Bergen 1978
McGuinn Clark Hillman Live At The Boarding House 1978
Shawn Phillips At The BBC 1971 to 1974
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In Concert 1975
Strawbs Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios 1970
Strawbs Live At The BBC Volume 1 In Session
Steeleye Span Live At Last 1978
Richard Thompson Live At The BBC 1973 to 2009
Richard & Linda Thompson In Concert November 1975
Steve Weber Holy Modal Rounders BC 1976
Jesse Colin Young On The Road 1976
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The All Time Best Live Folk And Folk Rock Albums
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Folk and folk rock live albums by decade – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s –
Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival is a live album by The Albion Band.
Tracks 1 to 6 were recorded in 1977 and tracks 7 to 11 were recorded in 1987.
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Live At The Academy Of Music 1971 is a box set by The Band with four CDs and a DVD.
The Band played four concerts at the Academy of Music in New York in the last week of December in 1971 and these concerts became the source for Rock Of Ages.
The DVD is not a film of the concert but a photo montage with music.
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BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a live album by The Albion Band.
This pulls together live recordings from 1977 and 1982.
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City Song BBC Sessions 1971 – 1972 is a collection of live recordings of Lindisfarne made by the BBC.
These included in studio sessions for Bob Harris and John Peel and three songs from the Royal Festival Hall on 31 May1972.
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On The Road is a live album by Jesse Colin Young.
It was recorded at various venues in North America in 1976.
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Game Set Match is a compilation of live recordings made by folk singer Nic Jones in the late 1970s.
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Ebbets Field 1974 is a live album by Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny.
It was recorded at Ebbets Field in Denver, Colorado on May 23rd and 24th, 1974.
This concert has also been sold as Before The Moon with a longer track list.
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Magic In The Air is a live album by Lindisfarne.
It was recorded at Newcastle City Hall on Christmas Eve 1977.
The band had played a one-off reunion gig in 1976 which was very successful so they decided to repeat it the following year and then reformed in early 1978 and had top 10 success with the single Run For Home from the Back And Forth album.
These Christmas shows in their home city of Newcastle Upon Tyne were to become something of an institution.
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Live At The BBC is a compilation of live recordings of Fairport Convention made by the BBC between 1968 and 1974.
This includes live in the studio recordings made for John Peel, David Symonds, Stuart Henry and Folk On One. Full details of what was recorded when and who played on which songs can be found at Discogs.
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In Concert was the first live album released by Magna Carta.
It was recorded at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in the Netherlands on 4th November 1971.
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