Stonehenge Playlist 1-2-09... Happy New Year!

As we enter the New Year, the Stonehenge crew has a new resolution we want to share with you: in celebration of the 40th anniversary year of so many wonderful albums released in 1969, each classic rock album this year will be celebrating it's 40th birthday, as close to the week of release as possible! To begin the year in style, we played one of my favorite Fairport Convention LP's, their second LP, and the first with Sandy Denny - 'What we did on our Holidays'.

I feel that Fairport was about as close as the UK got to the Byrds: both bands even had their own indigenous folk music revelations with 'Liege and Leif' and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'. 'What we did on our Holidays' is the UK's '5th Dimension'.

There is a dearth of video from this period of the band's history, but here's a great Dylan cover from this excellent LP to sample. Dylan cover? That reminds me of a certain US band...

Artist - Album -- Song

• The Oxford Circle - Love is the Song we Sing -- Foolish Woman
• Steve Miller Band - Children of the Future -- Children of the Future
• Public Nuisance - Love is the Song we Sing -- America
• Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum -- Doctor Please
• The Savage Resurrection - The Savage Resurrection -- Thing in "E"
• Audience - Audience -- Heaven was an Island
• McPhee - McPhee -- Indian Rope Man
• 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere -- Slip Inside This House
• Can - Monster Movie -- Outside my Door
• Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola -- Spanish Boots
• The Illusion - If It's So -- Man
• McCoys - Human Ball -- Human Ball Blues
• Vanilla Fudge - Best Of -- Shotgun (single)
• Chocolate Watch Band - No Way -- No Way Out
• Soft Machine - Vol. 1 -- Save Yourself
• The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday -- Thoughts and Words
• Small Faces - Small Faces -- Talk to You
• Love - De Capo -- She Comes in Colors
• Moby Grape - Wow --- Can't be so Bad
• The Monkees - Head -- Circle Sky
• The Electric Flag - You are what you eat -- Freak Out
• Procol Harum - Procol Harum -- Kaleidoscope
• Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy -- Singing a Song in the Morning
• Arthur Brown - Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- Prelude / Nightmare
• Five Day Week Straw People - Five Day Week Straw People -- Car Wash
• Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster -- Before Tomorrow
• Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia -- Bolex Dementia
• Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy -- Trilogy
• Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord -- Departure / Ride My See Saw
• Graham Bond Organization - We Put Our Majick on You -- Ajama
• Crack the Sky - Live Sky -- She's a Dancer
• Happy the Man - Happy the Man -- Stumpy meets the firecracker in Stencil Forest
• Gentle Giant - Civilian -- Convenience
• Camel - Rain Songs -- Metrognome
• Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton -- Let it Rain
• Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - On Tour with Eric Clapton -- Only You Know and I Know
• Delaney & Bonnie - To Bonnie from Delaney -- Soul Shake
• Delaney & Bonnie - D & B Together -- Coming Home
• Delaney & Bonnie & Friends -- On Tour with Eric Clapton -- I don't want to discuss it
• Delaney & Bonnie - D & B Together -- Sound of the City
• Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - On Tour with Eric Clapton -- Where there's a will there's a way