I found this extraordinary piece on one of the pages I visit on Facebook Blues.In.Colour and it makes for a sad story and I followed up with further reading . . . . note this performance on Top of The Pops (extraordinarily enough) is post the night of the LSD trip in Germany that triggered Peter’s schizophrenia or certainly psychotic episodes and whilst it is largely believed he did little to nothing after that and his leaving his beloved Fleetwood Mac that is not the full story . . . .
Peter Green - ‘Heavy Heart’ on Top of the Pops 1971Final clip for Pater Greens birthday and kind of apt with a mimed performance to promote his debut solo single, “Heavy Heart” (aired on 17th, June, 1971).Please support the channel, it’s greatly appreciated! https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bluesincolourIn 1971, Peter Green was in a state of deep personal and professional flux. Having walked away from the global fame of Fleetwood Mac the previous year, his life in 1971 was defined by a bizarre, temporary return to his old band, a fleeting attempt at a solo career, and his worsening psychological decline.The most famous event of Green’s year happened entirely by accident. In February 1971, while Fleetwood Mac was on tour in Los Angeles, guitarist Jeremy Spencer walked out of the hotel to buy a magazine and never came back, he’d left the band to join a religious cult called the “Children of God”.Desperate to fulfill their remaining 6 weeks of U.S. tour dates, Mick Fleetwood called Green and begged him to help. Green flew out immediately but refused to be billed as a headliner. He performed under the pseudonym “Peter Blue”. He did occasionally step up to the mic, singing “Black Magic Woman” and playing a medley of old rock ‘n’ roll tracks.Once the tour wrapped up, the band hoped he might stay. Green, however, made it clear his return was strictly a rescue mission, and he walked away for goodIn June 1971, he released a standalone, beautifully melancholic instrumental solo single titled “Heavy Heart”. To promote it, he made this rare appearance on the BBC’s Top of the Pops, playing the track alongside co-writer Nigel Watson on bass. The track showcased the haunting, fragile guitar tone he was famous for, but it did not achieve massive commercial success.
further reading at the excellent Smiling Corgi Press - Peter Green by Dave Kelly
XRay notes
Led Zeppelin - Physical Presence
Side 1 - Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL, 13th May 1973(post–Houses of the Holy tour)
Side 2 - Earls Court, London, England, 25th May 1975 (Physical Graffiti tour)
Side 3 - Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH, 27th April 1977
(Presence tour)
An XRay Special
you remember these guys huh? Bit of a one hit to me but hey . . . . .Seger they weren’t! Think I bought the single from the bargain bins (50p?)
Tracks
1. Wild Flowers - 4:09
2. Light Up Your Face - 3:07
3. Now You Know Me - 3:36
4. Mr. Jones - 4:33
5. Till the Well Runs Dry - 4:13
6. Tulane (Chuck Berry) - 2:52
7. Low Down Man - 3:06
8. Till the Fire Burns Out - 3:00
9. Cross Me Over the Road - 3:13
10.Right Side of Heaven - 0:55
11.Rollin On - 3:53
12.Please Don't Say Goodbye - 3:07
13.Tupelo Mississippi Flash (Jerry Reed) - 4:39
14.Rounden (Instrumental) - 0:19
15. Gave His Life To Rock 'N' Roll (Bonus Track) - 3:22
16. Make The Good Times Last (Bonus Track) - 2:39
17. Dick Leaps In (Bonus Track) - 3:03
All Songs by Steve Gibbons except were indicated.
The Steve Gibbons Band
*Dave Carroll - Lead Guitar
*Steve Gibbons - Vocals
*Bob Lamb - Drums
*Bob Wilson - Lead Guitar
*Trevor Burton - Bass
. . . . . what on earth could this song be about? . . . . . . . who’s Blank?
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PROGRESSIVE FOLK
VA - Women of Progressive Folk (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)
Progressive folk is the moment when traditional folk steps beyond its inherited boundaries and becomes something more exploratory, more personal, and more modern. It keeps the acoustic roots and modal beauty of older folk forms, but reshapes them through intimate songwriting, atmospheric production, quiet psychedelia, chamber‑folk instrumentation, and a reflective emotional depth that feels both ancient and newly invented. Instead of preserving songs exactly as they were, progressive folk uses tradition as a springboard, expanding melody, stretching harmony, and bringing a poet’s voice to the foreground. It is folk transformed rather than repeated, a gentle evolution defined by curiosity, stillness, and a willingness to push the music somewhere more daring and more human.
Progressive folk didn’t arrive all at once. It drifted in quietly, note by note, voice by voice, carried by women who were reshaping tradition long before anyone thought to name the movement. Some recorded in the 1950s, some in the 1970s, some decades later, yet all of them share a common thread: a willingness to push folk music somewhere more personal, more poetic, more daring, and more emotionally honest. Women of Progressive Folk gathers these voices into one place, not as a timeline, but as a living continuum.
This anthology traces the full arc of that evolution. You’ll hear the early roots of modern folk in Jean Ritchie, Connie Converse, and Barbara Dane, artists who planted seeds that would bloom years later. You’ll hear the late‑60s awakening, when Bridget St John, Judy Dyble, Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, and Anne Briggs began bending folk into new shapes, letting modal melodies, soft psychedelia, and poetic introspection take the lead. You’ll hear the confident expansion of the early 70s, when Sandy Denny, Shirley Collins, Joan Armatrading, Judee Sill, and Catherine Howe brought depth, craft, and emotional architecture to the genre. And you’ll hear the long afterglow — the quiet‑folk revival carried forward by Gillian Welch, Joan Shelley, Catherine MacLellan, Nanci Griffith, and Julie Byrne, whose recordings echo the same spirit even when made decades later.
What ties all of this together isn’t the year on the label, it’s the sound. A certain stillness. A certain clarity. A certain way of singing that feels both ancient and startlingly intimate. These women weren’t chasing trends; they were building a language. A language of modal beauty, quiet rebellion, and emotional truth.
This box set is a celebration of that language. A complete recording history of progressive folk as told through the women who shaped it, sustained it, and carried it forward. Whether the track was recorded in 1954 or 2017, it belongs here because it speaks the same dialect, one of courage, curiosity, and quiet transformation. (Butterboy)
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Track lists
CD1
01 Bridget St. John - Ask Me No Questions 7:50 1969
02 Judy Dyble - I Talk to The Wind 6:38 1969
03 Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day 1:47 1969
04 Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain 3:21 1970
05 Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle) - Silversong 4:29 1972
06 Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 2:43 1968
07 Joni Mitchell - For Free 4:31 1969
08 Celia Humphris (Trees) - Murdoch 5:10 1970
09 Sandy Denny (Fotheringay) - Winter Winds 2:12 1970
10 John and Beverley Martyn - Sweet Honesty 8:05 1970
11 Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span) - Dark-Eyed Sailor 5:58 1970
12 Shirley Collins & The Albion Band - Poor Murdered Woman 4:19 1971
13 Sandy Denny - Solo 4:26 1971
14 Judee Sill - Lady-O 3:14 1969
15 Deirdre - Lovely Joan 4:22 1971
16 Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer 4:11 1971
17 Carolanne Pegg - Fair Fortune's Star 10:03 1971
18 Norma Waterson - Red Wine and Promises 3:05 1972
19 Sandy Denny (Fotheringay) - Banks of the Nile 8:05 1970
20 Sue Vickers (Forest) - Bluebell Dance 3:10 1970
CD2
01 Joan Armatrading - City Girl 4:00 1972
02 Sandy Denny - The Music Weaver 3:17 1972
03 Judee Sill - The Archetypal Man 3:36 1973
04 Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Vampire 2:05 1971
05 Hazel Dickens - They'll Never Keep Us Down 2:45 1973
06 Janis Ian - Jesse 4:07 1973
07 Mary McCaslin - Way Out West 4:13 1973
08 Dory Previn - Mythical Kings and Iguanas 3:28 1971
09 Catherine Howe - It Comes With The Breezes 3:28 1971
10 Karen Beth - It’s All Over Now 2:44 1972
11 Rosalie Sorrels - Traveling Lady 5:04 1971
12 Eliza Gilkyson - Requiem 3:54 1972
13 Odetta - Hit or Miss (1970) 3:45 1970
14 Barbara Keith - Detroit or Buffalo 4:31 1972
15 Bonnie Koloc - You're Gonna Love Yourself in the Morning 2:34 1972
16 Emmylou Harris - Hickory wind 4:04 1973
17 Kathy Mattea - Give Yourself to Love 4:33 1973
18 Anne Briggs - The Snow it Melts The Soonest 2:18 1971
19 Sandy Denny - Quiet Joys of Brotherhood 4:28 1972
20 Linda Thompson (Richard & Linda Thompson) - The Great Valerio 5:23 1973
CD3
01 Linda Thompson (Richard and Linda Thompson) - The End of the Rainbow 3:57 1974
02 Catherine Howe - On A Misty Morning 2:34 1971
03 Judee Sill - The Phoenix (Original Version) 2:24 1973
04 Joan Armatrading - Down to Zero 3:53 1975
05 Barbara Dickson - The Orange and The Blue 3:37 1974
06 Maddy Prior (Tim Heart & Maddy Prior) - The False Knight on The Road 3:02 1974
07 Mary McCaslin - The Bramble and The Rose 3:19 1973
08 Joni Mitchell - Car on A Hill 3:02 1974
09 Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band - Murder of Maria Marten 7:25 1974
10 Judy Dyble (Trader Horne) - In My Loneliness 2:25 1970
11 Beate Krause (Carol of Harvest) - Somewhere at The End of The Rainbow 6:25 1978
12 June Tabor - While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping 1:48 1974
13 Shirley & Dolly Collins - The Moon Shines Bright 2:05 1975
14 Mandy Morton (Spriguns of Tolgus) - Curragh of Kildare 4:48 1975
15 Sandy Denny - Whispering Grass 3:45 1974
16 Anne Briggs - Standing on the Shore 4:33 1971
17 Lal Waterson (Lal Waterson & Mike Waterson) - Fine Horseman 3:31 1972
18 Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) - Cruel Sister 7:04 1970
19 Francesca Garnett (Chimera) - Silver Man 2:54 1970
20 Alison O’Donnell (Mellow Candle) - Sheep Season 5:02 1972
CD4
01 Sibylle Baier - Tonight 2:26 1970
02 Connie Converse - Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) 2:30 1954
03 Joan Shelley - Not Over By Half 4:33 2015
04 Catherine Maclellan - When She Don't Need Me 4:38 2009
05 Julie Tippetts - Sunset Glow 7:51 1975
06 Jean Ritchie - Nottamun Town 2:29 1965
07 Shirley Collins - The False Bride 4:19 1969
08 Barbara Dane - When I Was a Young Girl 3:42 1962
09 Oige - The Flower of Magherallyo 4:42 1993
10 Carolyn Hester - The Water is Wide 3:44 1963
11 Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind 3:23 1971
12 Gillian Welch - One and Only 5:28 1996
13 Ellen McIlwaine - Pinebo (My Story) 2:41 1972
14 Molly Drake - I Remember 3:04 1955
15 Nanci Griffith - Once in a Very Blue Moon 2:34 1984
16 Lily & Maria - I Was 4:00 1968
17 Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares 2:35 1970
18 June Tabor - Reynardine 2:59 1976
19 Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like A Wheel 3:10 1974
20 Julie Byrne - Vertical Ray 3:01 2017