ATSE : Volume 2 ISB | The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1969-1970

The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1969-1970

Paul he say: Here's a second volume of the Incredible String Band performing for the BBC. Like Volume 1, it consists entirely of studio sessions.

In 1967, the band consisted only of singer-songwriters Robin Williamson and Mike Heron. But by the time of this album, Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson joined as well, as you can see from the cover image. They released the albums "Changing Horses" in 1969 and "Looking Up" in 1970.

In 2007, the archival album "Across the Airwaves: BBC Radio Recordings 1969-74" was released. Seven of the songs here come from that, while the rest remain unreleased. Those seven are the first four, plus tracks 9 through 11. It's obvious that that album wasn't meant to be complete, even with sound quality considerations, because the unreleased tracks 12 and 13 are from the exact same BBC session as three that were chosen.

A bunch of the songs on this album had the lead vocals low in the mix. I fixed that for all the songs except the first four, which sounded fine. As usual, I used the UVR5 audio editing program to do that. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long. 

01 Fine Fingered Hands 
02 All Writ Down 
03 Dust Be Diamonds 
04 Theta 
05 The Letter 
06 This Moment 
07 Gather Round 
08 Waiting for You 
09 Empty Pocket Blues 
10 Beautiful Stranger 
11 Won't You Come See Me
12 Flowers of the Forest 
13 Dark Eyed Lady 

Sterling work by Paul here as he finds more ISB for us fans out there and as I was one of the ones requesting same here ’tis! Enjoy! For the song has no ending . . . . .