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Steeleye Span are an English folk-rock band formed in 1969. Still active today, along with Fairport Convention, they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival.
Hark! The Village Wait was the 1970 debut album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. The album is the only one to feature the original lineup of the band.
Maddy Prior - vocals
Tim Hart - vocals, electric guitar, electric dulcimer, fiddle, 5-string banjo, harmonium
Ashley Hutchings - bass
Terry Woods - vocals, electric guitar, concertina, mandola, 5-string banjo, mandolin
Gay Woods - vocals, concertina, autoharp, bodhran.

1."A Calling-on Song" (Hutchings)
2."The Blacksmith" (Traditional)
3."Fisherman's Wife" (MacColl)
4."Blackleg Miner" (Traditional)
5."Dark-Eyed Sailor" (Traditional)
6."Copshawholme Fair" (Traditional)
7."All Things Are Quite Silent" (Traditional)
8."The Hills Of Greenmore" (Traditional)
9."My Johnny Was A Shoemaker" (Traditional)
10."Lowlands of Holland" (Traditional)
11."Twa Corbies" (Traditional)
12."One Night As I Lay On My Bed" (Traditional)

I was a big fan of the fairports, the Trees, ISB and Pentangle for some years before I got into Steeleye maybe the "all around my hat" image put me off but I was reading the back of an LP or something and some conection was made between what I liked and Steeleye so I bought an early years compilation or something, I don't hold with compilations but they are often a cheap way of sussing out a band and I have to say Steeleye completely blew my mind! very quickly I dispenced with the compilation and scored all their early albums of which this their first is the best. you will be hooked by the end of the blacksmith and by Copshawholme Fair, you will as I did reguard Steeleye as one of the greatest Acid folk bands of all time. I have seen them live quite a few times in the last 10-15 years and unlike some of their contemporaries they don't seem to realise that 1970-75 was their ultimate hayday and have a tendency to play their later stuff which is annoying. But (at least in my opinion) if you stick to the 5 or 6 albums between those years you will utterly love this band.. There is a couple of lines in "all things are quite silent that will litteraly cause a paradime shift in your concept of what's Beautiful.
"where the lark and the blackbird so sweetly did sing and the lovely thrushes voices made the valleys to ring". Enjoy!