ReviewFor long- Island fans the most fun way to celebrate this hugelytrumpeted anniversary would be reissuing the two budget-price samplers which introduced so many cash-strapped kids to the label in 1969. The wide range of musical strains presented was packed with avenues to explore, but You Can All Join In's Side Two, Track One was Fairport Convention's hauntingly anth Meet On The Ledge, heralding the label's oncoming "quiet revolution" combining folk and electric rock forms, examined here over three CDs.

The astutely-picked selection swings quite naturally from the worthy traditionalism of The Albion Band into the late, great John Martyn revamping the same form with his treated electric guitar (one of seven beauties from the man). In between these sonic goalposts bubble a diverse gaggle including the mighty Traffic, intensely poignant Sandy Denny, wonderfully-whimsical Dr Strangely Strange, Richard & Linda Thompson, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band, Jethro Tull, Ronnie Lane and less-remembered names such as Jess Roden's Bronco and The Sutherland Brothers. The worthy nose-pinching element may put some off but folk has always been either a multi-faceted or much-divided field, depending on personal standing, so it's further tribute to Island that they covered all these bases and made it look quite natural.
:: TRACKLIST ::

CD 1
01. John Martyn - Cocaine (2:56)
02. Fairport Convention - She Moved Through The Fair (4:14)
03. Traffic - Withering Tree (2:56)
04. John Martyn - Seven Black Roses (4:03)
05. Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life (11:11)
06. John & Beverley Martin - Ocean, The (3:41)
07. Dr Strangely Strange - Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal (4:30)
08. Jethro Tull - Living In The Past (3:22)
09. Fairport Convention - Matty Groves (8:10)
10. Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must Die) (6:24)
11. Fotheringay - Banks Of The Nile (8:05)
12. Nick Drake - One Of These Things First (4:51)
13. Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens live (3:26)

CD 2
01. Fairport Convention - Dirty Linen (4:14)
02. Cat Stevens - On The Road To Find Out (5:10)
03. Sandy Denny - Late November (4:28)
04. Mike Heron - Flowers Of The Forest (5:44)
05. Amazing Blondel - Spring Season (3:42)
06. Bronco - Slips Away (6:09)
07. Claire Hamill & Michael Coles - Man Who Cannot See Tomorrow's Sunshine, The (2:42)
08. Amazing Blondel - Siege Of Yaddlethorpe, The (2:32)
09. Incredible String Band - Dear Old Battlefield (3:03)
10. Robin Williamson - Dark Eyed Lady (4:02)
11. Richard Thompson - Poor Ditching Boy (3:01)
12. Morris On Band - Nutting Girl, The (4:39)
13. Sandy Denny - Bushes And Briars (3:52)
14. Incredible String Band - Black Jack David (2:42)
15. Sutherland Brothers - Sailing (2:37)
16. John Martyn - Over The Hill (2:52)
17. Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun (3:54)
18. Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick - Haste To The Wedding / The Triumph / Off She Goes (6:31)

CD 3
01. Albion Country Band - Hanged I Shall Be (6:23)
02. John Martyn - Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail (3:08)
03. Richard & Linda Thompson - Withered And Died (3:27)
04. John Martyn - Spencer The Rover (4:11)
05. Bryn Haworth - Darlin' Cory (3:28)
06. Richard & Linda Thompson - Sun Never Shines On The Poor, The (3:42)
07. Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance - Stone (4:08)
08. Richard & Linda Thompson - Dimming Of The Day / Dargai (7:18)
09. Ashley Hutchings - Upton-Upon-Severn Stick Dance (3:14)
10. Richard Thompson - Calvary Cross live (13:27)
11. Sandy Denny - I'm A Dreamer (4:48)
12. John Martyn - May You Never (3:59)
13. Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge (4:10)
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