The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1970-1971 | Albums That Should Exist

The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1970-1971

Paul says: I'm still not into the Incredible String Band, but here's another BBC album from them, due to their high results in the BBC poll I did a while back. This is a third volume of BBC studio sessions.

There's an official album of BBC performances by this band, but it skips a lot of music. This album is a case in point. The first four songs are from that album, "Across the Airwaves," but everything else remains unreleased. Also, those first four songs are from two different BBC sessions in 1970, while tracks 5 to 8 are from one 1971 BBC session, and tracks 9 until the end are from another 1971 BBC session. 

In the time period here, the band was still a foursome, with Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie, and Rose Simpson. But that would change around the end of 1971. During this time, the band released no less than four studio albums: "I Looked Up" and "U" in 1970, and "Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending" and "Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air" in 1971. 

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Everything's Fine Right Now 
02 Raga Puti 
03 Ring Dance
04 Long, Long Road 
05 You Get Brighter 
06 Jigs [The Bird that Lives on Rain - Yellow Flames of Whin - Jenny in the Mosshouse - Drunk]
07 How We Danced the Lord of Weir 
08 The Actor
09 The Circle Is Unbroken
10 Sailor and the Dancer 
11 Tree 
12 Living in the Shadows

As I was one of the people who begged Paul at ATSE to find us more BBC Incredible String Band here is this . . . . largely good quality despite various sources and incarnations