In 1977, English musician
Ashley Hutchings (having abandoned the Albion name some years earlier and focused on forming the
Etchingham Steam Band with his wife
Shirley Collins) put together a new Albion Band, this time with the aim of playing traditional dance music. Hence the name. The band had a huge and unstable membership that included Simon Nicol, Graeme Taylor (from
Gryphon), the early music experts Phil Pickett and John Sothcott, fiddle player Ric Sanders, plus
John Tams (one of folk music’s most distinctive and highly regarded vocalists). The immediate result was a lively tra…
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