Coming Up: 'Les Cousins: The Soundtrack Of Soho’s Legendary Folk & Blues Club' Box Set Focuses on 1960 British Folk Scene

Out in January from Cherry Red Records.

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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.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1 BERT JANSCH Running, Running From Home

2 AL STEWART Manuscript

3 THE YOUNG TRADITION The Banks Of Claudy

4 “SPIDER” JOHN KOERNER Good Luck Child

5 THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND No Sleep Blues

6 WIZZ JONES See How The Time Is Flying

7 CAT STEVENS The Tramp

8 SHIRLEY COLLINS And DAVEY GRAHAM Nottamun Town

9 PAUL SIMON I Am A Rock

10 MICHAEL CHAPMAN No Song To Sing

11 JO ANN KELLY Moon Going Down

12 THIRD EAR BAND Stone Circle

13 A.L. LLOYD Jack Orion

14 MIKE COOPER Bad Luck Blues

15 ALEX CAMPBELL Been On The Road So Long

16 DORRIS HENDERSON And JOHN RENBOURN Strange Lullaby

17 KEITH CHRISTMAS Fable Of The Wings

18 SWEENEY’S MEN Reynard The Fox

19 AL JONES Come Join My Orchestra

20 SANDY DENNY You Never Wanted Me

21 TIR NA NOG When I Came Down

22 SAM MITCHELL A Leaf Without A Tree

23 BEVERLY Get To The One I Want To

DISC TWO

1 THE WATERSONS The Holmfirth Anthem

2 DONOVAN Sunny Goodge Street

3 DERROLL ADAMS Freight Train Blues

4 BERT JANSCH & JOHN RENBOURN Soho

5 SHELAGH McDONALD Silk And Leather

6 DANDO SHAFT Waves Upon The Ether

7 MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK Byker Hill

8 KEVIN AYERS Eleanor’s Cake (Which Ate Her)

9 IAN ANDERSON’S COUNTRY BLUES BAND New Lonesome Day

10 HAMISH IMLACH Black Is The Colour

11 JOHN MARTYN Fairy Tale Lullabye

12 THE PICADILLY LINE At The Third Stroke

13 ANNE BRIGGS Living By The Water

14 DAVE EVANS Grey Lady Morning

15 OWEN HAND I Loved A Lass

16 JOHN RENBOURN Lost Lover Blues

17 TOM RUSH Joshua Gone Barbados

18 C.O.B Music Of The Ages

19 ALEXIS KORNER Go Down Sunshine

20 DUFFY POWER Halfway

21 TOM YATES Bye Bye Bohemia

22 NICK DRAKE Northern Sky

23 THE SALLYANGIE Love In Ice Crystals

24 RON GEESIN Two Fifteen String Guitars For Nice People 25 DON PARTRIDGE Rosie

DISC THREE

1 JACKSON C. FRANK Milk And Honey

2 DAVY GRAHAM Maajun (A Taste Of Tangier)

3 TIM HART & MADDY PRIOR Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy

4 DR. STRANGELY STRANGE Roy Rogers

5 DAVE VAN RONK Baby, Let Me Lay It On You

6 ROY HARPER Sophisticated Beggar

7 JULIE FELIX The Young Ones Move

8 MUDGE & CLUTTERBUCK Memory Book

9 STEVE TILSTON I Really Wanted You

10 THE LEVEE BREAKERS Babe I’m Leaving You

11 RALPH McTELL Mrs Adlam’s Angels

12 ANDY FERNBACH Have Your Bags Soon Ready

13 BRIDGET ST. JOHN If You’d Been There

14 DAVE AND TONI ARTHUR A Maiden Came From London Town

15 LONG JOHN BALDRY AND THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You

16 JOHN JAMES Picture Rag

17 PLAINSONG Old Man At The Mill

18 NADIA CATTOUSE Travel On (Live)

19 GERRY LOCKRAN Black Girl

20 TIM HARDIN If I Were A Carpenter

21 CAT STEVENS Portobello Road

22 THE McPEAKE FAMILY The Verdant Braes Of Skreen

23 DAVE ELLIS Can You Tell Me

24 STRAWBS Pieces Of 79 And 15