Vulcan's Hammer "The Two Magicians"
(UK trad-folk, unreleased studio session 1973 & live 1975)
Little is known about the British traditional folk quartet Vulcan's Hammer, other than that they were based in Kent and put out one album, True Hearts and Sound Bottoms, as a privately pressed release limited to 250 copies. Though it's pretty typical of the English traditional vocal folk group genre without bearing special hallmarks of distinction, it's accomplished within its style, with strong solid male-female vocal harmonies. The material is likewise traditional in nature, mixing a cappella passages with arrangements based around acoustic guitar and fiddle. The album was reissued on CD in 2006. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
More about Vulcan's Hammer: Psychedelic Folk
"The Two Magicians" is compilation album of their unreleased studio session (1973) and live (1975). Track list is...
Studio, 1973
1. The Two Magicians (trad)
2. The Goodwin Sands (G.Gilbert)
3. Serf's Song (G.Thomas)
4. Come All Ye (Fairport Convention)
5. Crazy Man Michael (Fairport Convention)
6. Fiddler's Green (trad)
7. Devil Among the Tailors (trad)
8. MacPherson's Rant (trad)
Live at Stone Church, 1975
9. With A Hip-Hip-Hip And A Holler! (trad)
10. John Barleycorn I (trad)
11. John Barleycorn II (trad)
12. When Autumn Skies Are Blue (trad)
with The Hartley Morris Men, 1991
13. Chicken On A Raft (C.Tawney)
(UK trad-folk, unreleased studio session 1973 & live 1975)
Little is known about the British traditional folk quartet Vulcan's Hammer, other than that they were based in Kent and put out one album, True Hearts and Sound Bottoms, as a privately pressed release limited to 250 copies. Though it's pretty typical of the English traditional vocal folk group genre without bearing special hallmarks of distinction, it's accomplished within its style, with strong solid male-female vocal harmonies. The material is likewise traditional in nature, mixing a cappella passages with arrangements based around acoustic guitar and fiddle. The album was reissued on CD in 2006. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music GuideMore about Vulcan's Hammer: Psychedelic Folk
"The Two Magicians" is compilation album of their unreleased studio session (1973) and live (1975). Track list is...
Studio, 1973
1. The Two Magicians (trad)
2. The Goodwin Sands (G.Gilbert)
3. Serf's Song (G.Thomas)
4. Come All Ye (Fairport Convention)
5. Crazy Man Michael (Fairport Convention)
6. Fiddler's Green (trad)
7. Devil Among the Tailors (trad)
8. MacPherson's Rant (trad)
Live at Stone Church, 1975
9. With A Hip-Hip-Hip And A Holler! (trad)
10. John Barleycorn I (trad)
11. John Barleycorn II (trad)
12. When Autumn Skies Are Blue (trad)
with The Hartley Morris Men, 1991
13. Chicken On A Raft (C.Tawney)
posted by Lizardson at 2:46 AM
7 Comments:
Hi there,
Did you know the Cross and Ross download has a corrupted last track....??
Great site by the way.... love the folk!!
You mean bonus track "Blind Willie Johnson" ?
Checked my mp3 now, but it's nomal.
How does it corrupted?
Hi,
Windows media player will not it. says file unrecognisable.... plays other tracks fine and it's the latest version too.... maybe a problem when uploaded ???
Can't open the zip-file. The program says that it has an incorrect ending.
Wolfgang
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The Hammer's vocals are more stout than Guinness!
You should all check out the True Hearts and Sound Bottoms CD (radioactive RRCD 159)... very good. I know some of the tracks because they are covered (if you can cover traditional songs) by groups on ERON Enterprises records, which I collect. Vulcan's Hammer are also mentioned on some of the ERON LP liner notes (ERON was based in Deal, Kent and the producer, Ron Milner, used to use the same recording studios (Steenhuis in Broadstairs)
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