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Track List
01) Maybe Someday
02) October Song
03) When the Music Starts to Play
04) Schaeffer's Jig
05) Womankind
06) The Tree
07) Whistle Tune
08) Dandelion Blues
09) How Happy I Am
10) Empty Pocket Blues
11) Smoke Shovelling Song
12) Can't Keep Me Here
13) Good as Gone
14) Footsteps of the Heron
15) Niggertown
16) Everything's Fine Right Now
01) Maybe Someday
02) October Song
03) When the Music Starts to Play
04) Schaeffer's Jig
05) Womankind
06) The Tree
07) Whistle Tune
08) Dandelion Blues
09) How Happy I Am
10) Empty Pocket Blues
11) Smoke Shovelling Song
12) Can't Keep Me Here
13) Good as Gone
14) Footsteps of the Heron
15) Niggertown
16) Everything's Fine Right Now
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2:44
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3:00
2:20
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2:12
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First Released
1966
Psychedelic Rock
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"The Incredible String Band" is the debut album by the band of the same name. Released in 1966 on the Elektra label, it is the only one of the band's albums to feature the original trio line-up with Clive Palmer as well as Robin Williamson and Mike Heron.
The trio had been signed to Elektra Records by Joe Boyd, who had seen them play in Glasgow. They recorded the album at the Sound Techniques studio in London in one or two days in May 1966, with Boyd as producer. Boyd insisted on focusing on the group's own self-written material, rather than the traditional songs and tunes which they had also been performing, and with each performer singing his own material. This had the effect of marginalising Palmer, who had only one of his own songs featured on the record and only played on five songs in total.
The original LP sleeve used in the UK featured a photograph of the band holding up obscure musical instruments in Boyd's office in London. For the US issue, a different photo was used, showing the three musicians posed on what appears to be a rusting bus.
It won the title of "Folk Album of the Year" in Melody Maker's annual poll, and in a 1968 Sing Out! magazine interview Bob Dylan praised Williamson's "October Song" as one of his favorite songs of that period. Heron would later describe this album as his own favourite of the band's releases. The Incredible String Band did not chart when released, but in the UK following the Top 5 success of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter it went to #34 during a three-week run in the summer of 1968.
The trio broke up immediately after recording the album, but Heron and Williamson reunited after a few months to continue the band's name as a duo, later augmented by other musicians.
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"The Incredible String Band" is the debut album by the band of the same name. Released in 1966 on the Elektra label, it is the only one of the band's albums to feature the original trio line-up with Clive Palmer as well as Robin Williamson and Mike Heron.
The trio had been signed to Elektra Records by Joe Boyd, who had seen them play in Glasgow. They recorded the album at the Sound Techniques studio in London in one or two days in May 1966, with Boyd as producer. Boyd insisted on focusing on the group's own self-written material, rather than the traditional songs and tunes which they had also been performing, and with each performer singing his own material. This had the effect of marginalising Palmer, who had only one of his own songs featured on the record and only played on five songs in total.
The original LP sleeve used in the UK featured a photograph of the band holding up obscure musical instruments in Boyd's office in London. For the US issue, a different photo was used, showing the three musicians posed on what appears to be a rusting bus.
It won the title of "Folk Album of the Year" in Melody Maker's annual poll, and in a 1968 Sing Out! magazine interview Bob Dylan praised Williamson's "October Song" as one of his favorite songs of that period. Heron would later describe this album as his own favourite of the band's releases. The Incredible String Band did not chart when released, but in the UK following the Top 5 success of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter it went to #34 during a three-week run in the summer of 1968.
The trio broke up immediately after recording the album, but Heron and Williamson reunited after a few months to continue the band's name as a duo, later augmented by other musicians.
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