"Moving from Scotland to California after the ending of the Incredible String Band, my latest music has tended towards increasing preoccupation with these flavours, and with the able assistance of my new Merry Band I have been seeking to write a contemporary Celtic music using the old instruments in a new way. So this accoustic music is not an interpretation of traditional tunes and songs, but directly continues thousands of years heritage of songwriting and tune making. It seems to me there should be a kind of honour in music, an echo of the ages, that rekindles the spirit of the real McCoy as it were. And I hope that you who hear this record will feel it strikes a chord of recognition. In a word, I believe that I have never worked with finer musicians than Sylvia, Chris, and Jerry, and I reckon the music we make together reflects this friendship and spirit of adventure. A few months ago I acquired a book by a Harvard professor, one Barry Fell, called 'America B. C.', in which he outlines his research into the Celtic origins of numerous prehistoric buildings and stone monuments still standing in America. Many are carved with ancient writings only deciphered in the last decades. The band and I took time to explore certain of there dolmens and temples and the album cover shows us at a dolmen in upstate New York. But, whereas back home in Scotland, as well as Ireland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, etc., these standing stones are widely known and recognized as the work of Celtic forebears, this noble structure in New York state is coyly labeled on a sign nearby, 'glacial remains'. I never heard of such an artistic glacier myself." WHITEHARE’S VINYL COLLECTION (part 24) AMERICAN STONEHENGE ROBIN WILLIAMSON AND HIS MERRY BAND Criminal Records STEAL 4 UK Original Pressing with Insert (Released 1978) #robinwilliamson #stonehenge #celticfolk #barryfell #balancedrock #northsalemdolmen #archesnationalpark #vinylrecordcollection #vintagevinyl #ogvinyl #ogvinylcommunity #instavinyl #recordcollection #recordcollector #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #rarevinyl #vinyljunkie #analog #discog #cratedigging #lp #33rpm #whiteharesvinylcollection https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccu4Ue9pPxw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
