Rare Free Reed Vinyl Albums from the 1970s

Classic Vinyl! For completist collectors, Neil Wayne has hunted down the very last of the original vinyl LPs of many Free Reed releases from the 1970s, which are now very much collectorsí items, We currently have about 35 to 50 of each of these vinyl albums, so if you need to replace your old worn copies, fill out your set, or add this definitive selection of the seminal folk music album of the 1970s and 1980s to your collection, act now! These last few vinyl 12 inch LPs from the Free Reed label have with super sleeves, often with original booklets, and feature great quality music - there's a list and an Order Form below. Original 'Free Reed' Vinyl albums from the 1970s & 1980s Many of our CD customers have asked about all of the other old Free Reed classic LPs released between 1976 and 1983; well, we have unearthed stocks of eight great 12" vinyl LPs - complete with original sleeves and in most cases with original booklets - and offer them to you at proces far below those they sell for on'Rare Vinyl' collectors' lists! Free Reed Double LPs with original booklets: - £7.50 each FRRD 021/022 - The Transports - Peter Bellamy's great Ballad Opera, with Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, The Watersons, Dave Swarbrick, June Tabor, A L Lloyd, Cyril Tawney and others. Acclaimed by Melody Maker and throughout the world as 'Folk Album of the Year', Bellamy's epic production tells the story of a young Norfolk couple jailed and transported to Australia in the 1780s. With a cast list form the front rank of the British folk revival, this de-luxe double LP has a 24-page libretto booklet, and is even now considered on of the all-time great folk album sets. FRRD 023/024 - The Tale of Ale - compiled and arranged by Vic Gammon This is the original vinyl release of the1977 classic album "The Tale of Ale", which brought this splendid collection of the songs and stories of 'The Englishman - and Woman- and their beer' to the worldwide audience it deserved! This original double LP - over 98 minutes long - features legendary figures from the British Folk Revival of the 1970s, such as Peter Bellamy, Robin & Barry Dransfield, Roy Harris and John Foreman, and with the late Willy Rushton and other fine actors providing humorous asides. There's period accompaniment from leading early music group and folk bands - The Pump & Pluck, Oriana and 'Musica Inebriata'! It includes a full 8-page Booklet and research notes on the history of ale and beer, and was produced with the approval and support of Britain's "Campaign for Real Ale", the world's most successful consumer pressure group. Free Reed Single LPs with original booklets - £3.50 each FRR 010 - John Kirkpatrick's 'Plain Capers' FRR 030 - John Kirkpatrick's 'Going Spare' FRR 028 - The Old Swan Band - 'Old Swan Brand' FRR 013 - Roaring Jelly's Golden Grates' FRR 020 - Sue Harris - 'Hammers and Tongues' FRR 026 - Bernie Parry - 'Sailing to the Moon' FRR 015 - Les Barker - 'Mrs Ackroyd Superstar' Order Form for CDs, LPs, Free Reed Magazines The story of the Free Reed label...... The British folk music and concertina revival of the last 25 years or so owes a great deal to a little duplicated (roneoíd) newsletter, which became a solid little jourmal called ëFree Reed Magazineí. The back issues of this charming magazine (still available) now give todayís enthusiasts a great flavour of the keenness and enthusiasm that marked the early days of the concertina and folk-music revival in England. All 24 issues were edited, typed, pasted, collated. stuffed and mailed by Neil Wayne, and the magazine soon began to supply to its readers a selection of the limited range of folk records featuring the concertina. Out of this 'readers only' Mail Order Records service sprang the 'Free Reed' record label, launched in early 1976: The label, initially marketed only through the readership of Free Reed magazine, soon became a major British folk music record label, with a catalogue of over 30 releases by 1981.

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