Rave On

Various artists
Title	Rave On
Note	Also released as The Best of and the Rest of Folk Masters
Label	B&C	LP	©1971

Side 1
1	Rave on	Steeleye Span	1:29
2	The ploughboy and the cockney	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	3:39
3	Western Wynde	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	0:28
4	Banks of the Bann	Shirley Collins	3:39
5	Cold, haily, windy night	Steeleye Span	4:37
6	Let no man steal your thyme	Shelagh McDonald	3:28
7	Lovely on the water	Steeleye Span	5:21
Side 2
1	Just as the tide was a flowing	Shirley Collins	2:13
2	Cannily cannily	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	2:26
3	Matt Hyland	Martin Carthy	4:51
4	Of all the birds	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	0:55
5	The bank	Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick	2:17
6	Marrowbones	Steeleye Span	4:26

This was also released as (and is thus identical to) The Best of and the Rest of Folk Masters.

The connections between Steeleye Span and most of the performers are fairly straightforward:

Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: members
Shirley Collins: then married to Ashley Hutchings who was a member
Martin Carthy: member
Dave Swarbrick: Former musical partner of Martin Carthy

But who is Shelagh McDonald? I've never heard of her before or since and I'd love to know what her relationship to the band is.

17 July 1999

Geoff Owen geoffo@btinternet.com found out some more about Shelagh McDonald which he summarised

Basically, a bad LSD trip affected her so much that she left the business entirely and disappeared, essentially vanishing in 1971. And remained ‘missing’ for 30 years.[1] There is an interview at http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/12/experience-i-disappeared-for-30-years.

Most of the tracks are from albums, except for Rave On, which was released as a single by Steeleye Span and only ever appears on compilation albums, and The Bank which is from a somewhat rare 1967 instrumental EP by Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick called No Songs.[2]

Last updated: Sun, 9 Apr 16:45:56 2017 +1200