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Audio CD (7 Feb 2005)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Delay
ASIN: B0006ULVRU
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,640 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Kathy Smith -

2. Sarofeen & Smoke -

3. Brigitte Fontaine

4. Linda Perhacs

5. Breakout

6. Musica Dispersa

7. The Poppy Family -

8. Wendy & Bonnie -

9. Bonnie Koloc

10. Heaven & Earth -

11. Erica Pomerace -

12. Audience

13. The Roundtable -

14. Sidan

15. Sidan

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Album Description
Folk-Funk? Electric Folk? Hippy-Rock? Acid Folk? Sunshine-Pop? Folk-Fusion? Folksploitation? Once again music lovers struggle to bridge the deep & wide gully where another hybrid genre wanders lonely amongst the vinyl ghosts of yesteryears ethereal love songs. Let us introduce a flock of unsung songbirds who flutter between rocks and hardened pastures too commercial to be traditional - not successful enough to be credible - from the wrong side of town - on the other side of the globe. Here are some of the would-be folk legends that you didn’t read about, they never played the festivals and you never heard their records... until today.

"Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word" is the debut release from DELAY 68 RECORDS, a brand new label from CHERRY RED RECORDS, set to bring you the best in Folk, Funk, Psych, Prog, Ye-Ye, & Beat from across the world.

Compiled by, and featuring original artwork and sleevenotes from ANDY VOTEL (TWISTED NERVE), fans of Andy’s groundbreaking "MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS CRY" mix CD (an insanely eclectic mix of 75 tracks in 76 minutes!), and "FINDERS KEEPERS" compilation on FAT CITY RECORDS will have some indication of what to expect from this enthralling compilation.

** The majority of these tracks have never before been on CD, many appear here for the first time away from their sought after original releases.

** Eclectic folk has become very popular lately amongst collectors, DJs and artists (Wendy and Bonnie’s "By The Sea" was recently sampled by Super Furry Animals on their album Phantom Power), and Andy Votel is well respected in each of those circles.

** Features cover sticker endorsements from DAMON GOUGH (aka BADLY DRAWN BOY), and BOB STANLEY (ST. ETIENNE)

** There is already much press interest in the label and this album from national magazines (including Uncut, Mojo, Record Collector) as well specialist websites and radio.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Array of Old, Odd, Great Folk, 31 Mar 2005

By	Juan Mobili (Valley Cottage, NY USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Recent years, particularly when it comes to Folk, has seen the re-issuing of a number of albums that were either lost in the shuffle of bigger marketing machines dedicated to other genres.
From Karen Dalton to the Incredible String Band, slowly but surely, CD editions have finally done justice to works that despite their substance and audacious creativity, remained confined to the mad search of old vinyl copies often at exorbitant prices.
This apparent settling of old Folk accounts have given us CD access to unarguable beauties such as Vashti Bunyan' and Linda Perhacs' thirty-plus albums.
"Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word" is another valuable example of this turn of events, thanks to the careful "curating" of Andy Votel, a musician in his own right and force behind the Twisted Nerve label.
What Votel has done is unearth, really, a number of artists who, by the most part, were not even that recognized back when these songs were recorded, defined his search for Folk songs beyond the typical array of Brit and American rarities, and presented us with a collection of tunes that proves the unbridled imagination that was at work in this genre many -many!- years ago.
Among the diverse and substantive selections, there is a number of tunes worthy of attention, that showed that Folk was a larger pan-cultural event than the Greenwich Village small clubs or Nick Drake's bedroom.
To start things off, Kathy Smith's 'It's Taking So Long' rides on deeply funky bass and pre-Mahavishnu Jan Hammer on Fender Rhodes, showing some of the breadth of exploration contained here.
Brigitte Fontaine, a legend in France, offers "Brigitte," a song that may remind you that Keren Ann or Benjamin Biolay are not musical test-tube babies. Think of a French Marianne Faithfull in her youth, as much as comparing UK and France should ever be appropriate.
From her album Parallelograms, which deserves to be owned in its own right, Linda Perhacs's "Hey, Who Really Cares?" follows. A jewel of "psych-folk" years before Devendra Banhart was even born, and there was a need for such specific label.
Speaking of sheer and un-jaded Folk gems, San Francisco's sisters Wendy & Bonnie's "By The Sea" -taken from Genesis, the sole album from 1969- ranks as one of the most remarkable tunes here, infused of gorgeous harmonies and a level of maturity hard to believe, given that Wendy was 17 and Bonnie only 13 when they recorded their album.
Other songs that deserve praise and stretch the geographical borders of the music offered in this album are "Warm Up My Lips" by Breakout, a Polish combo that may remind you of songs on a any David Holmes soundtrack. Or, "Cefalea" by Musica Dispersa, a Catalan band that will strike a similar chord in your heart that that the Incredible String Band might have, with their early albums.
The rest of this album does not stay behind in potential discoveries although there are, to my taste, a couple of oddities that may not fare a better fate than being remembered as charming misfires. The Roundtable's version of "Scarborough Fair" played mainly with medieval instruments while indulging in free-jazz moments is not exactly a lost masterpiece. Something similar can be said of both tunes by the Welsh group Sidan -"Gobiath" and "Ar Goll"- with their proverbial flute solos and high-pitched voices, although you may not find them entirely are as inevitable discardable.
All in all, this is a collection that should be praised and, hopefully, only one of many Votel's anthologies to come. Think of this album as the work of the unknown ancestors to the above-mentioned Banhart or Joanna Newsom, among new and important practitioners of the boundless possibilities of Folk music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars great moments, 25 Jun 2009

By	N. Black "nickblack19" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are normally good enough reasons why obscurities and rarities don't get remembered, and this sprightly collection shows you why: it has its share of the forgettable and... plain...awful.But in the late 60s early 70s, record companies for a brief period threw money at anything and everything with long hair, thrown by the success of the Woodstock soundtrack and Crosby Stills Nash/Joni Mitchell.

In fact Joni Mitchell's confessional style is writ all over this collection, even though she has nothing actually to do with any of the wannabes herein represented.

But once you accept that hidden masterpieces are not awaiting you with every change of track, you can relax and enjoy the vibes of the late 60s.

Lindha Perhacs stands out, and if Vashti Bunyan has emerged from the gloom, so should this girl. Beautiful track, beautiful voice.

But for me the most enjoyable is the spaced-out Erica Pomerance reputedly recording an album while tripping, and her "You used to think". It's a track cobbled together with the manic intensity of the hallucinatee ... drums, acoustic guitars and multi tracked voice (one track sung at an excrutiatingly irritating high-pitched whine). And it is the kind of performance that makes you laugh out loud at the craziness of those youthful days. "Have a drink, have a coffee, have a smoke, have a toke" indeed. Fantastic!

Another great song is the Poppy Family's unintentionally hilarious "Shadows on the wall" with some bizarre lyrics you might miss on first listen. Then rounding it all off there is the Welsh funk epic (not) "Ar Goll" from a teenaged female group Sidan, which the excellent sleeve notes point out via a band quote "We wanted to try our hand at something like Stevie Wonder's Superstition, but it all went horribly wrong.."

All Kudos then to Andy Vogel from dreaming this one up. Great fun.

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