For me, one of the most beautiful albums ever. Perfect, a total synergy of five phenomena that act as one. Obviously, one of the high points of the British folk revival, the fusion of the genre with Jazz and Blues yields sublime results ("Train Song"), Jansch's ballad is beautiful ("Springtime Promises"), their interpretations of British traditional songs are both rigorous and splendid ("Lyke-Wake Dirge," far from the shamanic version by Saint-Marie two years prior) or surprising (the sitar in "Once I Had a Sweetheart") when they become simply works of art beyond any definition ("The Cockoo" and "House Carpenter"), and the pieces written by them reflecting the Anglo-Saxon folk tradition are practically true traditional songs of the 20th century ("Light Flight" and "Hunting Song"). Sublime even is the American infiltration in "Sally Go Round the Roses."
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