The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally...
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Shirley Collins (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
on the Hutchings project Morris On in 1972. Following the breakup of a later version of the Albion Country band in 1973 (shortly after recording the album...
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Ashley Hutchings (category The Albion Band members)
noteworthy English folk-rock bands: Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. Hutchings has overseen numerous other projects, including records...
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McCormack Albion (magazine), devoted to the board game Diplomacy, published from 1969 to 1975 The Albion Band, a former English folk band Ferry Corsten...
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Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically...
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Fairport Convention (redirect from The Fairport Convention)
notable groups in the genre, including Fotheringay, Steeleye Span, and the Albion Band; along with solo careers, most notably Thompson and Denny. Sandy Denny...
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Simon Nicol (category The Albion Band members)
group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band. He has also been involved with the Albion Band and a wide range of musical projects...
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Rise Up Like the Sun is a British folk rock album released in 1978 by The Albion Band. The album is in part a collaboration between John Tams on vocals...
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the first album in a new, stripped down format by the long-running folk rock outfit the Albion Band. It combines the song writing talents of the band...
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Joe Parrish (redirect from Albion (band))
guitarist of the bands Albion and Jethro Tull. Parrish found his love for music at the age of three and learned to play the guitar at the age of six. In...
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Martin Carthy (category The Albion Band members)
member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick, that recorded the Battle of the Field...
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Philip Pickett (redirect from The Bones of All Men)
Martin-in-the-Fields, the English Concert, the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. In 1976 he joined the Albion Band, a folk-rock band led...
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John Kirkpatrick (musician) (category The Albion Band members)
guitar, banjo, mandolin – ex Gryphon, The Albion Band and Home Service), Mike Gregory (drums, percussion – ex Albion Band, Home Service), Dave Berry (electric...
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to other variants, including the overtly English folk rock of the Albion Band and Celtic rock. "Folk rock" refers to the blending of elements of folk...
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Chris Leslie (musician) (category The Albion Band members)
currently plays the second fiddle he made at Newark on stage. Since then he has worked with Steve Ashley, Whippersnapper, the Albion Band, All About Eve...
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Martin Simpson (category The Albion Band members)
album Golden Vanity. In the same year he opened for Steeleye Span on their UK tour. He performed with Ashley Hutchings' Albion Band in 1979. He also toured...
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Richard Thompson (musician) (category The Albion Band members)
School in Highgate, he formed his first band, Emil and the Detectives (named after a book and a movie by the same title), with classmate Hugh Cornwell...
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Dave Mattacks (category The Albion Band members)
Convention in early 1972 to join The Albion Country Band. Meanwhile, he had also contributed to numerous studio recordings such as the Morris On project, Nick...
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Tim Renwick (category The Albion Band members)
Procol Harum, Andy Gibb, Bridget St. John, Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band, David Bowie, Mike Oldfield, Gary Brooker, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton...
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No Roses (category The Albion Band albums)
the Albion Country Band. It was recorded in the summer of 1971 and produced by Sandy Roberton and Ashley Hutchings, who was Collins' husband at the time...
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Blair Dunlop (category The Albion Band members)
singer-songwriter and guitarist. He took over the running of The Albion Band from Hutchings in 2011 but folded the band in 2013 to focus on his solo career. He...
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The musical directors John Tams and Ashley Hutchings made use of traditional songs as the basis for the score, performed by the Albion Band. In the 1978...
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John Tams (category The Albion Band members)
and as a member of the British folk rock group Albion Band. Splitting with Hutchings in the 1980s, he formed Home Service. In the following decades, Tams...
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The Albion-class landing platform dock is a class of amphibious warfare ship in service with the Royal Navy. The class consists of two vessels, HMS Albion...
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in the City" (Fairport Convention) (1968) "Marcie" (Fairport Convention) (1968) "Harvest Home/ The Gas Almost Works" (instr) (Albion Country Band) (1973)...
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Lol Coxhill (redirect from Murder in the Air (Lol Coxhill single))
and The Albion Country Band, No Roses (Pegasus, 1971) Lindsay Cooper, Music from the Gold Diggers (Sync Pulse, 1983) Lindsay Cooper, Rags & the Golddiggers...
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in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no founding members until he rejoined in 1976. Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while...
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Maddy Prior (redirect from Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band)
toured with them since. With June Tabor she was the singing duo Silly Sisters. She toured with the Carnival Band, in 2007, and with Giles Lewin and Hannah James...
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Phil Beer (redirect from Once in a Blue Moon (Phil Beer Band album))
also recorded some tracks at Oldfield's Througham studio. Beer joined The Albion Band in 1984 and stayed with them until 1991, touring extensively at home...
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Reel" (instr) (The Albion Country Band) (1972) "Horn Fair" (The Etchingham Steam Band) (1974) "Lament/ Rotta" (The Albion Dance Band) (1974) "(a) A Sailor's...
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