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Lindisfarne were the first British band to take folk-rock into both the singles and album pop charts. Their early hits like 'Meet Me On The Corner', 'Lady Eleanor' and 'Fog On The Tyne' have become classics and here are revisited in stunning "live" performances along with a selection of the best material from more recent albums.

Track List 1 Meet Me On The Corner (live) 2 Any Way The Wind Blows 3 Warm Feeling 4 Sunderland Boys 5 Lady Eleanor (live) 6 Train In G Major (live) 7 Love On The Run 8 When Friday Comes Around 9 We Can Swing Together (live) 10 All Fall Down (live) 11 Juke Box Gypsy 12 Run For Home 13 Stormy Weather 14 I Must Stop Going To Parties 15 All In The Same Boat 16 January Song (live) 17 Clear White Light (live) 18 Fog On The Tyne (live)         Sleevenotes   They may not have been the first Geordies to put Newcastle on the pop cultural map. That honour belongs to Eric Burdon & The Animals, who consistently visited the hit parade throughout the 1960s with a mid-Atlantic fusion of British Beat and Rhythm ‘N’ Blues. Lindisfarne was, however, the first to bring both the sound of Geordie dialect and folk-rock to the pop charts and to do it, significantly enough, as the Sixties gave way to the Seventies. Like many performers who began their careers during the ‘60s folk revival and later migrated to the progressive rock scene, Lindisfarne was enormously influenced by the music of Bob Dylan. (One of the group’s main singer-songwriters Alan Hull had the unfortunate experience of being touted as ‘the new Dylan’, a fate that also befell others like Bruce Springsteen. This was at a time when critics and fans alike were searching for a messianic replacement to Dylan during what was perceived as his arid ‘Self Portrait’ years.) Guitarist Simon Cowe, mandolin and harmonica player Ray Jackson, bassist/violinist Rod Clements, and drummer Ray Laidlaw had begun playing in their native Newcastle-on-Tyne as Downtown Faction, later metamorphosing into Brethren. They were joined by singer/guitarist Alan Hull in 1969 and, finding the Brethren name already in use by an American group, rechristened themselves Lindisfarne, after the ‘holy island’ (off the coast of Northumberland) renowned for its medieval gospels and monastery. The group was by now purveying an upbeat mix of plaintive folksy harmonies, wistful melodies, Dylanesque wordsmithery and good-time choruses. Within the year, they had signed to Tony Stratten-Smith’s new progressive rock label Charisma and in 1970 released ‘Nicely Out Of Tune’ (No 8, pop album chart) followed the next year by ‘Fog On The Tyne’ (the biggest selling album of 1971). The two albums spawned three hits that would become Lindisfarne classics – ‘Lady Eleanor’ (No 3, pop chart), ‘Fog On The Tyne’ (No 1, pop chart) and ‘Meet Me On The Corner’ (No 5, pop chart). By 1972, when the group recorded ‘Dingly Dell’, their critical star was already fading but the album still reached No 5 on the album charts and produced one decent hit ‘All Fall Down’. As with many bands that are over-hyped by the press, Lindisfarne was first canonised by the critics and then quickly relegated to the critical scrapheap of pop history. Seen by many as a more commercial version of such English folk ‘hippies’ as Fairport Convention, Lindisfarne was actually more a precursor of the good-time, pub rock sound that would emerge in the mid-‘70s with such groups as Brinsley Schwartz. Cowe, Laidlaw, and Clements left Lindisfarne in early 1973 to form Jack The Lad, releasing three albums on Charisma. In 1973, the surviving members Alan Hull and Ray Jackson were joined in a new Lindisfarne by guitarist/keyboard player/vocalist Kenny Craddock, guitarist Charlie Harcourt, bassist/vocalist Tommy Duffy and drummer Paul Nichols. At the same time, Alan Hull embarked on a parallel solo recording career, scoring heavily with ‘Pipedream’ (Charisma). In 1977, Jack The Lad folded, its members rejoining Lindisfarne. The latter continued to record with differing additional personnel (including the likes of Marty Craggs and Steve Daggett) and for a variety of labels—Warner Bros, Rocket, Mercury, their own LMP (Lindisfarne Musical Productions), Castle and Demon. 1978’s ‘Back And Fourth’ (Mercury) produced two hits ‘Run For Home’ (No 10 in the pop charts and rightly described as ‘more like Springsteen than Springsteen’) and ‘Warm Feeling’. Generally ignored by the music press, Lindisfarne continues to sell records (1987s ‘C’mon Everybody’ sold over 60,000 copies) and remains extremely popular with “live” audiences, touring regularly to capacity crowds.