Roberta Joan Anderson was born on 7 November 1943, in Fort Macleod in the prairie province of Alberta, Canada. She was the only child of William…
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Julie Felix was born on 14 June 1938 in Santa Barbara, California. She arrived in the UK in the early 60s during a time when…
Born in Canada, Leonard Cohen was already a published novelist and prize-winning poet before he started singing and songwriting, but Columbia’s A&R department probably didn’t…
Lindisfarne’s first three albums, released on Charisma between 1970 and 1972, are all bonafide classics full of boozy, raggle-taggle charm and endearing amateurism, in a…
The Lovin’ Spoonful lacked the studied cool of folk rock contemporaries like The Byrds (who emerged around the same time in 1965) but consistently delivered a zany…
Leader and principal songwriter John Phillips had enjoyed limited success with The Journeymen before retiring to the Virgin Islands with his wife Michelle and two friends,…
Since co-founding Buffalo Springfield in 1966 (and then splitting after two albums), Neil Young rarely stopped moving. Born in Toronto in November 1945, Neil Perceval Young worked…
Like Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake was a rare talent whose unique voice and premature death sealed his iconic status. Born in 1948 in Burma but raised…
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band came together in California in 1966 as a country rock jug-band. Their first hit single was Buy For Me The Rain. Will…
Boasting two acoustic guitar masters, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, a virtuoso rhythm section (comprising drummer Terry Cox and bassist Danny Thompson) and the pure,…
Over the years, the Bob Dylan song Blowin’ In The Wind would become the anthem of the civil rights movement and be recorded by literally hundreds of artists. But it was…
Roy Harper was born in June 1941 in Rusholme, Manchester. His mother, Muriel, died three weeks after he was born and he was brought up…
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny, was born on 6 January 1947 in Worple Road, Wimbledon. She would forever be known as Sandy. Her mother and father,…
Paul Simon was born in October 1941 in Newark, New Jersey, into a Hungarian Jewish family but moved to the middle-class area of Queens as…
Formed in Bristol in 1970 (originally as Stackridge Lemon), Stackridge gained a strong reputation as an eccentric live folk rock act with a very dedicated…
With the exception of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span were the most successful and enduring British folk-rock band. The parallels between the two bands are numerous: both updated traditional…
The Stone Poneys are now remembered only as Linda Ronstadt’s first group. But although she quickly overshadowed her colleagues and assumed top billing, when their…
One of the better British progressive bands of the early 1970s, The Strawbs differed from their more successful compatriots (The Moody Blues, King Crimson, Pink Floyd etc) principally…
Born on Valentine’s Day 1947, California-raised Buckley’s heroes were Nat King Cole and Johnny Cash, and his 1966 folk rock debut leaned heavily on psychedelia. Just 19 when his debut…
The Turtles were a pop/rock quintet from 1963 to 1969 with varying personnel, though always featuring lead singer Howard Kaylan and backup/harmony singer Mark Volman. Other…