Steeley Span’s 6th studio album, Now We Are Six, is to be reissued for its fiftieth anniversary on each CD and transparent vinyl, via Chrysalis Data on July 12.
The brand new reissue has been utterly remastered and in addition options 4 tracks from BBC periods from 1974 that have no longer been heard since their authentic airing. And you’ll watch a brand spanking new lyric video for Seven Hundred Elves under.
Now We Are Six, in the beginning launched in 1974, was once produced through Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and famously featured David Bowie taking part in saxophone on a canopy of Phil Spector’s To Know Him Is To Love Him. The album’s identify was once derived from the Winnie The Pooh writer A.A. Milne’s selection of poems for younger other folks, but in addition referred to the band themselves, who were augmented through the coming of drummer Nigel Pegrum.
After the band’s 1970 debut album Hark! The Village Wait, which featured each Gerry Conway and Dave Matatcks on drums, Steeleye Span had handiest used percussion sparingly on their following albums. Via 1972’s Under The Salt, new bassist Rick Kemp additionally performed drums, however following 1973’s Parcel Of Rogues the band made the verdict so as to add a full-time drummer to their ranks.
The brand new reissue options testimonials from authentic band contributors Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Nigel Pegrum in addition to manufacturer Anderson.
A screening of an episode of Electrical Folks at the side of a Q+A with Maddy Prior will happen at Walthamstow Trades Corridor on July 8 in collaboration with the Offbeat folks movie membership.
Pre-orders for Now We Are Six can be open in a while.
Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six
1. Seven Hundred Elves
2. Drink Down The Moon
3. Now We Are Six
4. Thomas The Rhymer
5. The Mooncoin Jig
6. Edwin
7. Lengthy-A-Rising
8. Two Magicians
9. Twinkle Twinkle Little Celebrity
10. To Know Him Is To Love Him
11.Thomas The Rhymer (UK Unmarried Edit)
12. Two Magicians (Radio One Consultation, twentieth February, 1974)
13. Edwin (Sounds of The 1970s Consultation, twentieth February, 1974)
14. Lengthy-A-Rising (Sounds of The 1970s Consultation, twentieth February, 1974)
15. Thomas The Rhymer (Sounds of The 1970s Consultation, twentieth February, 1974)
