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  • 'Freaky folk' album covers

  • By Johnny Trunk

    Posted: Mon Jul 3 2006

  • Wondering where those freaky, folky images in the latest Time Out magazine music section are from? Allow Johnny Trunk, music historian, recording artiste and label honcho behind the fabulous ’Fuzzy Felt Folk‘ to soothe your fevered mind

    'Freaky folk' album covers

    For more weird music, visit Johnnys website at www.trunkrecords.com

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    • Rare voice of British folk, made two hugely influential LPs in the late 1960s. Classic Yorkshire TV series with two folkies singing classic, trad and pop folk for children. Delightful and historic imagery used by great folk labels such as Topic throughout the 1960s. Classic and important male voice of British Folk. Famous for singing traditional childrens songs. Unusal London-meets-New York folk trio. Made one rare LP, recently bootlegged. Used by Kubrick for the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange. Dark, odd and beguiling folk sound, with the odd beat thrown in for good measure. From the legendary Piggleswick Folk homemade private press LP. Letraset is also a firm favourite for privately pressed folk LP artwork. Wonderfully gentle folk duo. Rare LPs. An important part of traditional folk imagery and used extensively throughout the 1960s for folk LP cover art,. This comes from the Critics Group LP issued by Argo. Songs of old London town. Undiscovered folk goddess, made two extremely psychedelic and free folk records in 1968. Now makes LPs of human bird calls. The heavenly sound of traditional Sussex. Her and her sister Dolly made possibly the most important folk LPs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and later collaborated with the industrial movement. Now a highly influential and groovy folk songstress, this is an original LP from the early 1970s. One of many folk family groups that sprung up all over the 1960s and 1970s. Most of them went no further than the debut LP, and many seem to cover Scarborough Fayre. folk duo, made recordings of Beach Boys songs in a trad style. Wife of jazz legend Chris Barber. Made one beguiling folk LP mixing traditional Shakespearian sonnets with fairly insane, free ideas. Classic British band on the long hard folk circuit, shot to fame for about five minutes with the opening title of Follyfoot. This track, called the Lightning Tree is a most odd hymns to weather and sex. no introduction necessary really.
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