Crucially, Watkins's book points out how easy it is for the reader to take part in the survey of ley lines, simply by taking a map and ruler and rambling out into almost any part of the British countryside: antiquarianism for weekend rovers. ‘The clear, modest style…invoke[s] the same genius terrae britannicae from the red Herefordshire earth that inspired [his] mystic predecessors, Traherne and Henry Vaughan,' Michell continues. ‘There would be no poetry without heretics.' Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\16 - I Was A Young Man.wav Farley, Paul (October 8, 2010). "Underground (Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young)". The Times Literary Supplement (5610): 30. ISSN 0307-661X.

Dayal, Geeta (May 19, 2011). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". Bookforum. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\03 - The Waggoner's Lad.wav verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\06 - Brother John.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\05 - Reynardine.wavFilename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\08 - Glistening Glyndebourne.wav By that time the end of their journey was in sight. Pressing eastwards now to Skye, they arrived at Donovan's island encampments one day in late summer to find that the Sunshine Superman had already flown his rainy nest. Up, up and away to the more controllable climate of Los Angeles. Of those devotees that remained, ‘Everyone had either established themselves and taken what houses were available, or gone away,' Vashti remembers. Local talk extolled the virtues of the tiny Hebridean island of Berneray, pincered between the larger islands of Harris and North Uist. With Bess in tow, they boarded the ferry from Uig to Lochmaddy on Uist, and walked the few miles of bleak, flat road to where it runs out on a spit of land above Port Nan Long. From there, a cramped ferry supplied the only connection with Berneray. It was a short crossing – shepherds often rowed over, with their sheep swimming at their side. Hugely ambitious . . . A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-written overview [of the modern British folk phenomenon] for a long time . . . I've already made several precious musical discoveries thanks to this book and I expect to make more.” — Michel Faber, Guardian Book of the Week Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\09 - Paper And Smoke.wav Rob Young’s Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music is a seminal book on British music and cultural heritage, that spans the visionary classical and folk tradition from the nineteenth-century to the present day.

Sharp met hundreds of what he called "the common people", who sang songs to him that had been passed down to them through the generations, songs that retained their mystery and power even though the events that inspired them – anything from a good harvest to the murder of an infant – had long since passed into myth. The songs were, in fact, the transmitters of those myths, evoking an older, predominantly agrarian England that increasingly existed only in memory. Elie, Paul (December 3, 2010). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". Commonweal. 137 (21): 25–26. ISSN 0010-3330. Nolan, Tom (May 28, 2011). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". SFGate. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\02 - John Barleycorn Must Die (First Version).wavFilename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\06 - Gypsy Davey.wav So the walk was broken off over Christmas, with the wagon parked in the Lake District while Vashti and Robert took the boat to the Netherlands. Any hopes she may have entertained that this tour might help reactivate her career were dashed, though, as the venues were really a succession of tiny pubs and bars. Loud conversations drowned out the fragility of Vashti's music, which required the dead stillness of an attentive audience. In one bar in Ghent she broke down in tears and fled. Hirst, Christopher (August 5, 2011). "Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young". The Independent. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD2 Electric Albion\01 - Roll Over Vaughn Williams.wav

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits – books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Young touches all too briefly on the Irish folklore and songs that inspired some of Yeats's great poems, as well as the so-called Celtic Twilight movement in British classical music. He describes the first Glastonbury festival, which was held in 1914, an awkward merging of folk song, classical music and theatre. The spiritual forefather of Michael Eavis, founder of the contemporary Glastonbury, was Rutland Boughton, an eccentric who later committed what Young calls "professional suicide" by embracing communism and living in seclusion in the Forest of Dean. Garner, Dwight (May 12, 2011). "Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew (Rev. of Electric Eden by Rob Young)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. That summer of 1971, husband and wife hatched their group Wings, inviting Denny Laine and Denny Seiwell to the farm to write new material. The sleeve of Wild Life, released at the climax of that summer, shows the Wings foursome in bucolic, relaxed mood, dangling their toes into a stream from their perch on an overhanging tree branch. Ten years ago, working as an editor at Faber on a music list that was still very much in its adolescent years of development, I published a book called Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young. It is now one of the most acclaimed and cherished music titles of the 21 stcentury literary canon.Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\18 - The Carman's Whistle.wav Filename I:\Torrents 2\Various Artists - Electric Eden (2012) [FLAC] {2cd}\CD1 Acoustic Eden\17 - Music Of The Ages.wav