Nicely Out Of Tune

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Ray Jackson and myself had met at art college, a well-known safe haven for musicians who had yet to figure out how to make a living from music.

What was the reason for changing the title "Alan In The River With Flowers" into "Float Me Down The River", swapping Jackhammer Blues against "Nothing But The Marvellous" and dropping Rod's The Things I Should Have Said? A more masculine brand of English folk rock, complete with strong melodies and eerily reedy harmonies.

Long before Lindisfarne made their first album we had a collective interest in things visual and often fantasised about what our sleeve would be like when we eventually made our first album. Coming from the pre-LF time still under the name of "Brethren" and "Downtown Faction" are Jeff Sadler and Richard Squirrel. I'm also getting the album recorded to CD form, I'll have to see if I can tell which one sounds best.

The album stands up to repeated playing;I have had the album since its release in 1970,and never tired of it. An antique frame with a picture of the band in the centre and a special font echoing the Northumbrian origins of our name would be the main features. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The record itself comes in a printed brown paper inner sleeve with a small white band logo in the centre.This debut is probably their best, boasting pint-swinging tunes like "Lady Eleanor", "Scarecrow Song", "Clear White Light" and "We Can Sing Together". Spectrum was design company owned by Joe Robertson, responsible for early Lindisfarne imagery/posters etc. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. milligrammes later, Hull tripped for a month and still had flashbacks in 1978 (‘pretty frightening, really’).