At the end of the sixties the hippie hangover was being shook from weary heads of a generation who thought they would change the world. Disillusioned, they went looking for new kicks to feed their head. Americans had Laurel Canyon but what happened to British Folk?

In America singer songwriters dabbled with introspective loner folk, Xian folk, and morphed into the cocaine cowboys, of Laurel Canyon. In the UK a few musicians moved back to a folk path with a more progressive styling, shapeshifting experimentation and acoustic avant-grade.

This series of mixes looks at a group of musical wayfarers on this scepter’d isle who dipped their toes into the slowly winding river of the type of folk I like. I call them Wayfarers All, a collection of British music with folk sensibilities lovingly curated and commingled by me, Paul Hillery.

They contain a few artists you don’t usually associated with folk, but just give it a whirl I think you’ll dig it.

You can find a glossary of the artists used in these mixes by clicking on this link



I got a bit carried away and did a few more bonus mixes, you can find them here


Track listings

Wayfarers All : Volume Ten

  1. Place To Be / Nick Drake
  2. Silver Coin / Bridget St. John
  3. Up North / Catherine Howe
  4. Matty Groves / Fairport Convention
  5. Lover’s Cabaret / Keith Christmas
  6. If You’re Not Part Of The Solution, You Must Be Part Of The Problem / Mick Softley
  7. Shouldn’t Have Took More Than You Gave / Dave Mason
  8. Over The Hill / John Martyn
  9. Island / Renaissance
  10. Mediterranean Lazy Heat Wave / Paul Brett’s Sage
  11. Closer To The Truth / Alan James Eastwood
  12. Question Of Time / Chris Harwood
  13. Gypsy / The Treetops
  14. Ooh Baby (Make Me Feel So Young) / Terry Reid
  15. Summer Is Fading / Jim Capaldi
  16. Hyde Park Angels / Jonathan Kelly
  17. Dear Mr. Fantasy / Traffic
  18. Screams In The Ears / Bill Fay

Wayfarers All : Volume Nine

Wayfarers All : Volume Nine

  1. Up The Pool / Jethro Tull
  2. Pearl And Bird / Quintessence
  3. Yorric / Meic Stevens
  4. The Answer / Peter Bardens
  5. Hazey Jane II / Nick Drake
  6. Empty Days / Martyn Bradley
  7. Go Out And Get It / John & Beverley Martyn
  8. Sky Dance / John Trevor
  9. Go On Home / Accolade
  10. Sunday Is Beautiful / Dave Evans
  11. Bad Water Canyon / Steve Ashcroft
  12. Dean / Terry Reid
  13. Moonlight / Gavin James
  14. Streetcar Magic / Hugh Featherstone Blyth
  15. Ballad Of Cursed Anna / Jonathan Kelly
  16. Strange News / Alan James Eastwood
  17. Say It Like It Is / Malcolm & Alwyn
  18. Chelsea Morning / Sylvia McNeill
  19. Run Shaker Life / Paul Nicholas

Wayfarers All : Volume Eight

  1. Broken Web / Cobweb
  2. Live With Me / Humble Pie
  3. Just For A Moment / Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane
  4. Seeds / Alan James Eastwood
  5. Cadence & Cascade / King Crimson
  6. Bless The Weather / John Martyn
  7. Thank Heavens I’ve Got You / Marvin, Welch & Farrar
  8. Country Girl / Jake Thackray
  9. From The Morning / Nick Drake
  10. Love / Bronco
  11. Reaching Out On All Sides / If
  12. Journey II (A Game For All Who Know) / Ithaca
  13. Flying / Justine
  14. All On The First Day / Tony, Caro & John
  15. Someone / Claggers
  16. Mirage / The Pentangle
  17. Wooden Ships / Chris Harwood

Wayfarers All Vol 7

Wayfarers All : Volume Seven

  1. Om / The Moody Blues
  2. Notting Hill Gate / Quintessence
  3. Eye To Eye / Audience
  4. Sepia Sister / Shoot
  5. Same Way From The Sun / Mighty Baby
  6. Crab Apple Jam / David Snell
  7. There’s No Vibration But Wait / Edgar Broughton Band
  8. Bradshaw The Bison Hunter / East of Eden
  9. Soulful Lady / Michael Chapman
  10. Dead / Dana Gillespie
  11. Get Thy Bearings / Donovan
  12. Welcome Home / Andy Roberts
  13. Solid Air / John Martyn
  14. Northern Sky / Nick Drake
  15. Waterfall / Mick Softley
  16. Twelve Hours Of Sunset / Roy Harper
  17. A Maid That’s Deep In Love / Pentangle

Wayfarers All : Volume Six

  1. Hazey Jane I / Nick Drake
  2. Richmond / Andy Roberts
  3. Rod’s Song / Shelagh McDonald
  4. Dreams (Story Of Our Time – Beneath This Sky) / Ithaca
  5. Love You More Than It’s Good For Me To / Justine
  6. Across The Sound / Stuart Marson
  7. Virgin Spring / Mighty Baby
  8. I’ll See You Again / Roy Harper
  9. Seed Of Memory / Terry Reid
  10. Earth And Water Song / Humble Pie
  11. Flight Of The Ibis / McDonald And Giles
  12. Sometimes / Manfred Mann Chapter Three
  13. I Talk To The Wind / King Crimson
  14. Legend Of A Mind / The Moody Blues
  15. Taken All The Good Things / Stray

Wayfarers All Vol 5

Wayfarers All : Volume Five

  1. She Brings The Morning With Her / Justine
  2. The Garden Of Jane Delawney / Trees
  3. Black Cat / Magic Carpet
  4. To Make You Stay / Lal & Mike Waterson
  5. Searching For Lambs / Christopher & Janet Ridley
  6. Blackwaterside / Anne Briggs
  7. After The Dance / Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
  8. Waiting For The Sun / Waiting For The Sun
  9. Kind Sir / Agincourt
  10. Under The Tree / Shide And Acorn
  11. All Around My Grandmother’s Floor / Nadia Cattouse
  12. Scarborough Fair / Folkal Point
  13. Travellin’ Song / The Pentangle
  14. Patrice / Simon Finn
  15. Questions (Did You Know – Will We Be Alive) / Ithaca
  16. Cymbaline / Pink Floyd
  17. Never Let Go / Camel
  18. The Happiest Man In The Carnival / Mighty Baby
  19. On A Misty Morning / Catherine Howe
  20. Everything That Touches Me / Mae McKenna
  21. Foothills / Keith Christmas
  22. Very Nice Of You To Call / Aardvark

Wayfarers All Vol 4

Wayfarers All : Volume Four

  1. Some Good Advice / Bill Fay
  2. Come Join My Orchestra / Al Jones
  3. Sweet Painted Lady / Bridget St. John
  4. The Colour Is Blue / Country Sun
  5. Windfall / Offspring
  6. Welcome To The Citadel / Marc Brierley
  7. Forbidden Fruit / Roy Harper
  8. All In A Dream / Steve Tilston
  9. Images Of Passing Clouds / Gary Farr
  10. Girl Of The Cosmos / Shide And Acorn
  11. Not Preconceived / Arrival
  12. Train Song / The Pentangle
  13. Looking For Indians / Prelude
  14. Magician In The Mountain / Sunforest
  15. Close To Me / Christine Perfect
  16. Love Colours / Mick Softley
  17. Way Out Hermit / Moonkyte
  18. Flying / Nigel Mazlyn Jones
  19. Children Of The New World / Daevid Allen & Euterpe
  20. Last Cloud Home / The Orange Bicycle

Oh bugger I made a mistake with Volume 4 ! It has All In A Dream by Steve Tilston in there, and this track was also used in Volume 2, sorry ! CDr copies have this track omitted.


Wayfarers All Vol 3

Wayfarers All : Volume Three

  1. Where I Like To Stand / Vashti Bunyan
  2. Flowers / The Sun Also Rises
  3. Sand All Yellow / Kevin Coyne
  4. Bottles / Belle Gonzalez
  5. Scarborough Fair / Deena Webster
  6. Trafalgar Square / Synanthesia
  7. Upon Reflection / Heron
  8. Edge Of The Sea / Prelude
  9. JLT / T2
  10. Love Song With Flute / Caravan
  11. Visionary Mountains / Joan Armatrading
  12. Ania / Claggers
  13. My Music / Ritchie Francis
  14. Dream / Terry Reid
  15. B.C. People / Nadia Cattouse
  16. Early Morning Eyes / The Parlour Band
  17. Rosemary Hill / Fresh Maggots
  18. You Know What Has To Be / Frozen Tears
  19. She’s Far Away / Foggy

Wayfarers All : Volume Two

Wayfarers All : Volume Two

  1. Cirrus Minor Intro / Pink Floyd
  2. A Day A Way / Bridget St. John
  3. Sweet Sunlight / Shelagh McDonald
  4. Rose Hip November / Vashti Bunyan
  5. Willow’s Theme / Lodestone
  6. March Rain / Michael Chapman
  7. Green Is The Colour / Pink Floyd
  8. Autopsy / Fairport Convention
  9. All In A Dream / Steve Tilston
  10. Green / The Lion & The Fish
  11. Commune / Roy Harper
  12. Rainmaker / Traffic
  13. Lady Of St. Clare / Daylight
  14. Staggered / The Battered Ornaments
  15. Forest And The Shore / Keith Christmas
  16. Whims And Ways / Bryn Haworth
  17. Clifftop / Richmond
  18. The Family Theme / Mr. Brooks
  19. Can You Hear Me Now / Mick Softley

Wayfarers All : Volume One

Wayfarers All : Volume One

  1. Open The Box (Must Get Back To The Time Machine) / The Occasional Word
  2. What Was I Thinking / Al Jones
  3. River Lane / Melton Constable
  4. Letter To Hermione / David Bowie
  5. The Mutant / Trader Horne
  6. Rolling And Tumbling / Synanthesia
  7. The Good Mr. Square / She Was Tall She Was High / The Pretty Things
  8. Sleepy Hollow / Manfred Mann
  9. The Evil Venus Tree / The Occasional Word
  10. Rowena / Meic Stevens
  11. Sally Free And Easy / Marianne Faithfull
  12. Umber Rag / Claggers
  13. Fly High / Bridget St. John
  14. Love Is Come Again / Parchment
  15. Stargazer / Shelagh McDonald
  16. Life Is A Long Song / Jethro Tull
  17. Jig-saw / Del Richardson
  18. Freewheel / Hard Meat
  19. River / Terry Reid
  20. Sucking On The Sweet Vine / Humble Pie
  21. 
Time Machine / Mick Softley

The bonus mixes can be found here


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