Les Cousins: The Soundtrack Of Soho’s Legendary Folk & Blues Club, Various Artists 3CD Box Set

• 3CD compilation focussing on the mid-60s haunt of the emergent folk and blues scene in London.

• Featuring a host of big names who visited the venue many of whom went on to national success.

Les Cousins was a folk and blues club in the basement of a restaurant in Greek Street, in London’s Soho, which became a home and the epicentre for the folk revival of the
mid-1960s, a venue where musicians met and learnt from each other. As such, it was influential in the careers of so many pioneers – Al Stewart, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Alexis Korner, Strawbs, Roy Harper, Paul Simon and many others.

The club’s vital importance to that scene is now commemorated with a triple-CD featuring folk’s illuminati from that period, as well as more obscure names who trod the boards in that Greek Street basement, with some tracks gracing CD for the first time. Compiled and annotated by folk historian and fRoots editor/publisher Ian Anderson, who also played at the venue, ‘Les Cousins’ pays fitting tribute to a unique time and place in UK folk music history.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 BERT JANSCH Running, Running From Home
2 AL STEWART Manuscript
3 THE YOUNG TRADITION The Banks Of Claudy
4 “SPIDER” JOHN KOERNER Good Luck Child
5 THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND No Sleep Blues
6 WIZZ JONES See How The Time Is Flying
7 CAT STEVENS The Tramp
8 SHIRLEY COLLINS And DAVEY GRAHAM Nottamun Town
9 PAUL SIMON I Am A Rock
10 MICHAEL CHAPMAN No Song To Sing
11 JO ANN KELLY Moon Going Down
12 THIRD EAR BAND Stone Circle
13 A.L. LLOYD Jack Orion
14 MIKE COOPER Bad Luck Blues
15 ALEX CAMPBELL Been On The Road So Long
16 DORRIS HENDERSON And JOHN RENBOURN Strange Lullaby
17 KEITH CHRISTMAS Fable Of The Wings
18 SWEENEY’S MEN Reynard The Fox
19 AL JONES Come Join My Orchestra
20 SANDY DENNY You Never Wanted Me
21 TIR NA NOG When I Came Down
22 SAM MITCHELL A Leaf Without A Tree
23 BEVERLY Get To The One I Want To

DISC TWO
1 THE WATERSONS The Holmfirth Anthem
2 DONOVAN Sunny Goodge Street
3 DERROLL ADAMS Freight Train Blues
4 BERT JANSCH & JOHN RENBOURN Soho
5 SHELAGH McDONALD Silk And Leather
6 DANDO SHAFT Waves Upon The Ether
7 MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK Byker Hill
8 KEVIN AYERS Eleanor’s Cake (Which Ate Her)
9 IAN ANDERSON’S COUNTRY BLUES BAND New Lonesome Day
10 HAMISH IMLACH Black Is The Colour
11 JOHN MARTYN Fairy Tale Lullabye
12 THE PICADILLY LINE At The Third Stroke
13 ANNE BRIGGS Living By The Water
14 DAVE EVANS Grey Lady Morning
15 OWEN HAND I Loved A Lass
16 JOHN RENBOURN Lost Lover Blues
17 TOM RUSH Joshua Gone Barbados
18 C.O.B Music Of The Ages
19 ALEXIS KORNER Go Down Sunshine
20 DUFFY POWER Halfway
21 TOM YATES Bye Bye Bohemia
22 NICK DRAKE Northern Sky
23 THE SALLYANGIE Love In Ice Crystals
24 RON GEESIN Two Fifteen String Guitars For Nice People 25 DON PARTRIDGE Rosie

DISC THREE
1 JACKSON C. FRANK Milk And Honey
2 DAVY GRAHAM Maajun (A Taste Of Tangier)
3 TIM HART & MADDY PRIOR Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
4 DR. STRANGELY STRANGE Roy Rogers
5 DAVE VAN RONK Baby, Let Me Lay It On You
6 ROY HARPER Sophisticated Beggar
7 JULIE FELIX The Young Ones Move
8 MUDGE & CLUTTERBUCK Memory Book
9 STEVE TILSTON I Really Wanted You
10 THE LEVEE BREAKERS Babe I’m Leaving You
11 RALPH McTELL Mrs Adlam’s Angels
12 ANDY FERNBACH Have Your Bags Soon Ready
13 BRIDGET ST. JOHN If You’d Been There
14 DAVE AND TONI ARTHUR A Maiden Came From London Town
15 LONG JOHN BALDRY AND THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You
16 JOHN JAMES Picture Rag
17 PLAINSONG Old Man At The Mill
18 NADIA CATTOUSE Travel On (Live)
19 GERRY LOCKRAN Black Girl
20 TIM HARDIN If I Were A Carpenter
21 CAT STEVENS Portobello Road
22 THE McPEAKE FAMILY The Verdant Braes Of Skreen
23 DAVE ELLIS Can You Tell Me
24 STRAWBS Pieces Of 79 And 15