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Steeleye Span - Storm Force Ten
Chrysalis Canada LP is VG++
Cover has ringwear
1. Awake, Awake
2. Sweep, Chimney Sweep
3. The Wife Of The Soldier
4. The Victory
5. The Black Freighter (From 'The Threepenny Opera')
6. Some Rival
7. Treadmill Song
8. Seventeen Come Sunday
An underrated album. An earlier reviewer suggested that the band had lost its way at this point. On the contrary, Storm Force Ten(and Live at Last, the following year), if anything, *redeemed* the reputation of Steeleye Span. They really DID seem to have lost their way on the previous album, Rocket Cottage, which was a very hit and miss affair. After that mediocre offering, Peter Knight and Bob Johnson left the band, to be replaced by stalwart folk musicians Martin Carthy and Jonn Kirkpatrick. This line-up, during their all too brief existence, came up with some lovely arrangements of traditional songs that are substantially more authentic sounding and pleasing to the ear than some of the material on the previous album (Bob Johnson was always more rock-orientated than anything else and, even though he did compose some Steeleye classics, he had an irritating propensity for re-arranging old traditional songs into nothing more than pop/rock numbers, e.g.,James the Rose, on Rocket Cottage, is just a throwaway rock song, completely robbed of any traditional `feel`). It`s great to hear Carthy`s vocals again on a Steeleye album, and Kirkpatrick`s accordion playing makes a welcome change.
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