PLAINSONG Following Amelia: The 1972 Recordings & More (50th Anniversary Collection)

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• 118-track, 6CD box set from the legendary British country rock/folk rock band Plainsong.

• Features a 50th anniversary re-issue of their 1972 debut album ‘In Search Of Amelia Earhart’, digitally remastered from the original reel-to-reel master tapes.

• Contains over 50% previously unreleased material, including: several rare 1970s BBC recordings, the full original 1972 Folk Fairport concert in Amsterdam, and excerpts from the very first concert by the reformed Plainsong in Mayrhofen, Austria in 1993.

• Plus 2020 remakes of Amelia songs originally recorded to accompany Ian Clayton’s book In Search Of Plainsong.

Plainsong, formed in London in late 1971; comprised of singer Iain Matthews, who with Matthews Southern Comfort had a worldwide hit with Joni Mitchell’s song ‘Woodstock’; former Liverpool Scene and Everyone guitarist Andy Roberts; piano and bass player David Richards; and the New York guitarist Bobby Ronga. The four met at Iain’s north London flat in December 1971 after recording and playing together in various combinations over the previous couple of months. They spent the afternoon working out an arrangement of ‘Along Comes Mary’, a Tandyn Almer song that had been a 1966 US hit for The Association, and agreed that if it worked they would go ahead and become a band. They worked throughout 1972, touring the UK and Europe, recording numerous sessions for the BBC plus two excellent albums (the second of which remained unreleased until 2005) before breaking up at the end of that year as Iain headed to California to begin a new career as a solo artist.

With the addition of former Matthews Southern Comfort guitarist Mark Griffiths and singer/ songwriter Julian Dawson, they reformed in 1992, returning to the live stage again in Mayrhofen, Austria in August 1993 – their first concert in 21 years. For a while in the late 1990s, Julian was replaced in the band by Clive Gregson before returning again in 2003.

This 6CD box set, released some 50 years after their 1972 debut with ‘In Search Of Amelia Earhart’, not only contains that album digitally remastered from the original tapes but also the ‘Now We Are 3’ second album, alongside a host of previously unissued tracks from Iain and Andy’s own archives and from the collections of fans worldwide. Plainsong’s 1972 BBC In Concert special for Bob Harris gets its first official airing on CD, as does the rare Sounds On Sunday radio broadcast, their very last recording together before the break-up.

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Plainsong
Following Amelia

- 1 -
1. For the Second Time
2. Yo Yo Man
3. Louise
4. Call the Tune
5. Diesel On My Tail
6. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
7. I'll Fly Away
8. True Story of Amelia Earhart
9. Even the Guiding Light
10. Side Roads
11. Raider
12. Along Comes Mary
13. Even the Guiding Light (Alternative Vocal)
14. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
15. Any Day Woman
16. Call the Tune
17. The Poor Ditching Boy
18. Even the Guiding Light
19. Raider
20. Miss the Mississippi and You
- 2 -
1. Old Man At the Mill
2. Urban Cowboy
3. The Fault
4. Swinging Doors
5. Keep On Sailing
6. Miss the Mississippi and You
7. Home
8. First Girl I Loved
9. Save Your Sorrows
10. Nobody Eats At Linebaugh's Anymore
11. The Goodnight Loving Trail
12. All Around My Grandmother's Floor
13. That's All It Could Amount To
14. Bold Marauder
15. Keep On Sailing
16. Urban Cowboy
17. Nobody Eats At Linebaugh's Anymore
18. All Around My Grandmother's Floor
19. The Goodnight Loving Trail
20. Bold Marauder
- 3 -
1. Tigers Will Survive
2. Seeds and Stems (Again)
3. For a Spanish Guitar
4. Any Day Woman
5. Truck Driving Man
6. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
7. Yo Yo Man
8. I'll Fly Away
9. True Story of Amelia Earhart
10. Seeds and Stems (Again)
11. Any Day Woman
12. Take You To the Movies
13. Blue Blue Day
14. Miss the Mississippi and You
15. I Work For Jesus In the Personnel Department
16. I Don't Want To Talk About It
17. Save Your Sorrows
- 4 -
1. That's All It Could Amount To
2. Time Between
3. Raider
4. Call the Tune
5. I'll Fly Away
6. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
7. Miss the Mississippi and You
8. Louise
9. Wreck of the Old 97
10. Carolina Moon
11. Old Kent Road
12. Even the Guiding Light
13. Bold Marauder
14. Nobody Eats At Linebaugh's Anymore
15. Home
16. Miss the Mississippi and You
17. Old Man At the Mill
18. Charlie
19. The First Girl I Loved
20. Bold Marauder
21. The Goodnight Loving Trail
22. True Story of Amelia Earhart
23. Yo Yo Man
- 5 -
1. And Me
2. Louise
3. Even the Guiding Light
4. Call the Tune
5. Raider
6. Charlie
7. True Story of Amelia Earhart
8. Sweet Amelia
9. Yo Yo Man
10. The Goodnight Loving Trail
11. True Story of Amelia Earhart
12. Sweet Amelia
13. Yo Yo Man
14. Souling Song
15. Charlie
16. Old Man At the Mill
17. Amelia Earharts' Last Flight
18. True Story of Amelia Earhart
19. Sweet Amelia
- 6 -
1. Radio Lady
2. Me and Mr. Hohner
3. Poison Apple Lady
4. Mama Tried
5. Bold Marauder
6. Louise
7. Lowlands Away
8. The Poor Ditching Boy
9. Souling Song
10. Tulips From Amsterdam
11. Nivram
12. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
13. Raider
14. For the Second Time
15. Side Roads
16. Diesel On My Tail
17. Even the Guiding Light
18. Louise
19. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight