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

Wayfarers All : Volume Nine
- Up The Pool / Jethro Tull
- Pearl And Bird / Quintessence
- Yorric / Meic Stevens
- The Answer / Peter Bardens
- Hazey Jane II / Nick Drake
- Empty Days / Martyn Bradley
- Go Out And Get It / John & Beverley Martyn
- Sky Dance / John Trevor
- Go On Home / Accolade
- Sunday Is Beautiful / Dave Evans
- Bad Water Canyon / Steve Ashcroft
- Dean / Terry Reid
- Moonlight / Gavin James
- Streetcar Magic / Hugh Featherstone Blyth
- Ballad Of Cursed Anna / Jonathan Kelly
- Strange News / Alan James Eastwood
- Say It Like It Is / Malcolm & Alwyn
- Chelsea Morning / Sylvia McNeill
- Run Shaker Life / Paul Nicholas

Wayfarers All : Volume Eight
- Broken Web / Cobweb
- Live With Me / Humble Pie
- Just For A Moment / Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane
- Seeds / Alan James Eastwood
- Cadence & Cascade / King Crimson
- Bless The Weather / John Martyn
- Thank Heavens I’ve Got You / Marvin, Welch & Farrar
- Country Girl / Jake Thackray
- From The Morning / Nick Drake
- Love / Bronco
- Reaching Out On All Sides / If
- Journey II (A Game For All Who Know) / Ithaca
- Flying / Justine
- All On The First Day / Tony, Caro & John
- Someone / Claggers
- Mirage / The Pentangle
- Wooden Ships / Chris Harwood

Wayfarers All : Volume Seven
- Om / The Moody Blues
- Notting Hill Gate / Quintessence
- Eye To Eye / Audience
- Sepia Sister / Shoot
- Same Way From The Sun / Mighty Baby
- Crab Apple Jam / David Snell
- There’s No Vibration But Wait / Edgar Broughton Band
- Bradshaw The Bison Hunter / East of Eden
- Soulful Lady / Michael Chapman
- Dead / Dana Gillespie
- Get Thy Bearings / Donovan
- Welcome Home / Andy Roberts
- Solid Air / John Martyn
- Northern Sky / Nick Drake
- Waterfall / Mick Softley
- Twelve Hours Of Sunset / Roy Harper
- A Maid That’s Deep In Love / Pentangle

Wayfarers All : Volume Six
- Hazey Jane I / Nick Drake
- Richmond / Andy Roberts
- Rod’s Song / Shelagh McDonald
- Dreams (Story Of Our Time – Beneath This Sky) / Ithaca
- Love You More Than It’s Good For Me To / Justine
- Across The Sound / Stuart Marson
- Virgin Spring / Mighty Baby
- I’ll See You Again / Roy Harper
- Seed Of Memory / Terry Reid
- Earth And Water Song / Humble Pie
- Flight Of The Ibis / McDonald And Giles
- Sometimes / Manfred Mann Chapter Three
- I Talk To The Wind / King Crimson
- Legend Of A Mind / The Moody Blues
- Taken All The Good Things / Stray

Wayfarers All : Volume Five
- She Brings The Morning With Her / Justine
- The Garden Of Jane Delawney / Trees
- Black Cat / Magic Carpet
- To Make You Stay / Lal & Mike Waterson
- Searching For Lambs / Christopher & Janet Ridley
- Blackwaterside / Anne Briggs
- After The Dance / Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
- Waiting For The Sun / Waiting For The Sun
- Kind Sir / Agincourt
- Under The Tree / Shide And Acorn
- All Around My Grandmother’s Floor / Nadia Cattouse
- Scarborough Fair / Folkal Point
- Travellin’ Song / The Pentangle
- Patrice / Simon Finn
- Questions (Did You Know – Will We Be Alive) / Ithaca
- Cymbaline / Pink Floyd
- Never Let Go / Camel
- The Happiest Man In The Carnival / Mighty Baby
- On A Misty Morning / Catherine Howe
- Everything That Touches Me / Mae McKenna
- Foothills / Keith Christmas
- Very Nice Of You To Call / Aardvark

Wayfarers All : Volume Four
- Some Good Advice / Bill Fay
- Come Join My Orchestra / Al Jones
- Sweet Painted Lady / Bridget St. John
- The Colour Is Blue / Country Sun
- Windfall / Offspring
- Welcome To The Citadel / Marc Brierley
- Forbidden Fruit / Roy Harper
- All In A Dream / Steve Tilston
- Images Of Passing Clouds / Gary Farr
- Girl Of The Cosmos / Shide And Acorn
- Not Preconceived / Arrival
- Train Song / The Pentangle
- Looking For Indians / Prelude
- Magician In The Mountain / Sunforest
- Close To Me / Christine Perfect
- Love Colours / Mick Softley
- Way Out Hermit / Moonkyte
- Flying / Nigel Mazlyn Jones
- Children Of The New World / Daevid Allen & Euterpe
- 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 : Volume Three
- Where I Like To Stand / Vashti Bunyan
- Flowers / The Sun Also Rises
- Sand All Yellow / Kevin Coyne
- Bottles / Belle Gonzalez
- Scarborough Fair / Deena Webster
- Trafalgar Square / Synanthesia
- Upon Reflection / Heron
- Edge Of The Sea / Prelude
- JLT / T2
- Love Song With Flute / Caravan
- Visionary Mountains / Joan Armatrading
- Ania / Claggers
- My Music / Ritchie Francis
- Dream / Terry Reid
- B.C. People / Nadia Cattouse
- Early Morning Eyes / The Parlour Band
- Rosemary Hill / Fresh Maggots
- You Know What Has To Be / Frozen Tears
- She’s Far Away / Foggy

Wayfarers All : Volume Two
- Cirrus Minor Intro / Pink Floyd
- A Day A Way / Bridget St. John
- Sweet Sunlight / Shelagh McDonald
- Rose Hip November / Vashti Bunyan
- Willow’s Theme / Lodestone
- March Rain / Michael Chapman
- Green Is The Colour / Pink Floyd
- Autopsy / Fairport Convention
- All In A Dream / Steve Tilston
- Green / The Lion & The Fish
- Commune / Roy Harper
- Rainmaker / Traffic
- Lady Of St. Clare / Daylight
- Staggered / The Battered Ornaments
- Forest And The Shore / Keith Christmas
- Whims And Ways / Bryn Haworth
- Clifftop / Richmond
- The Family Theme / Mr. Brooks
- Can You Hear Me Now / Mick Softley

Wayfarers All : Volume One
- Open The Box (Must Get Back To The Time Machine) / The Occasional Word
- What Was I Thinking / Al Jones
- River Lane / Melton Constable
- Letter To Hermione / David Bowie
- The Mutant / Trader Horne
- Rolling And Tumbling / Synanthesia
- The Good Mr. Square / She Was Tall She Was High / The Pretty Things
- Sleepy Hollow / Manfred Mann
- The Evil Venus Tree / The Occasional Word
- Rowena / Meic Stevens
- Sally Free And Easy / Marianne Faithfull
- Umber Rag / Claggers
- Fly High / Bridget St. John
- Love Is Come Again / Parchment
- Stargazer / Shelagh McDonald
- Life Is A Long Song / Jethro Tull
- Jig-saw / Del Richardson
- Freewheel / Hard Meat
- River / Terry Reid
- Sucking On The Sweet Vine / Humble Pie
- 
Time Machine / Mick Softley
The bonus mixes can be found here
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