Steeleye Span - British folk-rock band formed in 1970 in Winchester, Hampshire (England) a member of Fairport Convention Ashley Hutchins and continue (started last) experiments in the genre of electric folk. In contrast to the Fairport Convention and other road British folk revival, Steeleye Span was a commercial success, three of their albums were in the Top 40, and the hit singles Gaudete (? 11, 1974),
and All Around My Hat (? 5, 1975) became "golden." As noted by a reviewer Allmusic, between Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span can spend a few parallels: "Both reconstituted folk songs in rock arrangements, had excellent singers (one side - Sandy Denny, the other - Maddie Pryor) used multi-harmonic structures. If in the early years of the more innovative ideas was with Fairport Convention, since 1970 works Steeleye Span looks interesting ... distinguish the two groups is that if Fairport came from rock to folk, then Steeleye did way back. "Tracklist:
01 Summer Is A Coming In
02 Sevenhundred Elves
03 Long A Growing
04 Edwin
05 Little Sir Hugh
06 Peascod Time
