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Les Cousins
The Soundtrack of Soho's Legendary Folk
& Blues Club
Strawberry
Release date: 2024
3CD compilation focussing on the
mid-60s haunt of the emergent folk and blues scene in London.
Featuring a host of big names who visited the venue many of whom
went on to national success. Les Cousins was a folk and blues
club in the basement of a restaurant in Greek Street, in
London's Soho, which became a home and the epicentre for the
folk revival of the mid-1960s, a venue where musicians met and
learnt from each other. As such, it was influential in the
careers of so many pioneers - Al Stewart, Davey Graham, Bert
Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Alexis Korner,
Strawbs, Roy Harper, Paul Simon and many others. The club's
vital importance to that scene is now commemorated with a
triple-CD featuring folk's illuminati from that period, as well
as more obscure names who trod the boards in that Greek Street
basement, with some tracks gracing CD for the first time.
Compiled and annotated by folk historian and fRoots
editor/publisher Ian Anderson, who also played at the venue,
'Les Cousins' pays fitting tribute to a unique time and place in
UK folk music history.
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Track Listing
Disc One
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Bert Jansch - Running,
Running From Home
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Al Stewart - Manuscript
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The Young Tradition - The
Banks of Claudy
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"Spider" John Koerner - Good
Luck Child
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The Incredible String Band -
No Sleep Blues
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Wizz Jones - See How Time is
Flying
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Cat Stevens - The Tramp
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Shirley Collins & Davey
Graham - Nottamun Town
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Paul Simon - I Am A Rock
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Michael Chapman - No Song to
Sing
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Jo Ann Kelly - Moon Going
Down
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Third Ear Band - Stone
Circle
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AL Lloyd - Jack Orion
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Mike Cooper - Bad Luck Blues
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Alex Campbell - Been on the
Road So Long
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Dorris Henderson & John
Renbourn - Strange Lullaby
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Keith Christmas - Fable of
the Wings
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Sweeney's Men - Reynard the
Fox
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Al Jones - Come Join My
Orchestra
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Sandy Denny - You Never
Wanted Me
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Tir Na Nog - When I Came
Down
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Sam Mitchell - A Leaf
Without a Tree
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Beverly - Get To the One I
Want To
Disc Two
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The Watersons - The
Holmfirth Anthem
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Donovan - Sunny Goodge
Street
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Derroll Adams - Freight
Train Blues
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Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
- Solo
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Shelagh McDonald - Silk &
Leather
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Dando Shaft - Waves Upon the
Ether
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Martin Carthy & Dave
Swarbrick - Byker Hill
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Kevin Ayers - Eleanor's Cake
(Which Ate Her)
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Ian Anderson's Country Blues
Band - New Lonesome Day
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Hamish Imlach - Black is the
Colour
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John Martyn - Fairy Tale
Lullaby
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The Picadilly Line- At the
Third Stroke
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Anne Briggs - Living by the
Water
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Dave Evans - Grey Lady
Morning
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Owen Hand - I Loved a Lass
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John Renbourn - Lost Lover
Blues
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Tom Rush - Joshua Gonee
Barbados
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C.O.B - Music of the Ages
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Alexis Korner - Go Down
Sunshine
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Duffy Power - Halfway
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Tom Yates - Bye Bye Bohemia
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Nick Drake - Northern Sky
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The Sallyangie - Love in Ice
Crystals
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Ron Geesin - Two Fifteen
String Guitars for Nice People
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Don Partridge - Rosie
Disc Three
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Jackson C. Frank - Milk &
Honey
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Davy Graham - Maajun (A
Taste of Tangier)
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Tim Hart & Maddy Prior -
Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
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Dr Strangely Strange - Roy
Rogers
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Dave Van Ronk Baby - Let Me
Lay It On You
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Roy Harper - Sophisticated
Baggage
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Julie Felix - The Young Ones
Move
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Mudge & Clutterbuck - Memory
Book
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Steve Tilston - I Really
Wanted You
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The Levee Breakers - Babe
I'm Leaving You
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Ralph McTell - Mrs Adlam's
Angels
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Andy Fernbach - Have Your
Bags Soon Ready
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Bridget St John - A Maiden
Came from London Town
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Dave & Toni Arthur - Gee
Baby Ain't I Good ToYou
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Long John Baldry & the
Hoochie Coochie Men - Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You
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John James - Picture Rag
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Plainsing - Old Man at the
Mill
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Nadia Cattouse - Travel On
(Live)
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Gerry Lockran - Black Girl
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Tim Hardin - If I Were a
Carpenter
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Cat Stevens - Portabello
Road
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The McPeake Family - The
Verdant Braes of Skreen
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Dave Ellis - Can You Tell Me
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Strawbs - Pieces of 79 and
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