The Albion Band
Ashley Hutchings founded The Albion Band, a rotating collection of hired musicians that also performed and recorded as The Albion Dance Band and The Albion Country Band, after he’d grown dissatisfied with the less traditional direction of his previous band, Steeleye Span. Throughout its long and checkered history, The Albion Band has been sported more than 100 musicians who have gone on to make their own marks in British folk music, including Richard Thompson, Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, Steve Ashley, Lol Coxhill, Nic Jones, John Kirkpatrick, Maddy Prior, Martin Simpson, John Sothcott, Roger Swallow, Sue Harris, Linda Thompson, Lal and Mike Waterson, and Pete Zorn.
Hutchings started The Albion Band as a backing group for his then wife Shirley... Read More
- Genre:
- Folk, Traditional Folk
- Formed Date:
- 1971
