Alfie Shepherd -
The Wind In The Willows 1969
"In 1969, Angel Pavement linchpin Alfie Shepherd took time out from the group's hectic schedule to demo a concept album that he'd written around his favorite childhood story, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows. Sadly Angel Pavement broke up before they'd had a chance to record the work, which was duly left to gather dust. Forty years later, Alfie's homemade recording of the proposed album finally gains a long-overdue release. Taken from the original mastertapes, and bolstered by a clutch of similarly unissued home demos from the same timeframe, The Wind In The Willows is now revealed as one of the great lost projects of the late 1960s, a thrilling psychedelic pop song-suite bursting with melodic invention, ambitious vocal arrangements and the boundless spirit of adventure that characterized the era."
Tracklist:
1 Spring Fever
2 Floating on a Dream
3 The Wild Wood
4 Dulce Domum
5 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
6 The Open Road
7 Lost in His Life
8 Bargin'
9 The Call of the South
10 Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears
11 The Return of Ulysses
12 I'm Only the Postman
13 Tomorrow's Dreams Today
14 The Swallow's Song
15 Sandy's Song
16 Won't Be Loving Again
17 I'm Moving on
18 Friends
19 Sad Statue
20 Elizabeth Knows
21 The Resurrection Men
Thank you Cor ! Never heard before.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely album....many thanks for sharing this little Gem.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting, thank you for sharing! Can't wait to hear.
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Thank you for sharing this forgotten masterpiece!
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