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fRoots

2013 October

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Colin Irwin

2013 October

"Forty five years on but even now - or maybe especially now - Young Tradition blow your head off. Built around Peter Bellamy's famously idiosyncratic phrasing and eccentric stylisation, they sound like they've just landed from another planet with a brief to turn traditional folk song on its head ... The BGO double collection basically puts the entire YT studio sessions (...) under one roof in digitally remastered form. It's thus a valuable resource for anyone wishing to understand why they made such a sensational contribution to the folk revival ... This package serves as both valuable introduction and joyous celebration of a group who still sound entirely different to anything before or since".