'71 Acid Folk: Comus, Jan Dukes de Grey, Spirogyra

Please choose your favourite of these albums.

Of course there is a ton of other folk music such as:

Roy Harper's Stormcock
Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate
Joni Mitchell's Blue
Hush's Extradition
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes's Ame debout
Cat Stevens' Teaser and the Firecat
And Fabrizio De André's Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo (thanks for the recommendation)
Strawbs' From the Witchwood
C.O.B.'s Spirit of Love
Bröselmaschine's self-titled
Françoise Hardy's The Question
Tudor Lodge's self-titled
Fuchsia's self-titled
Tír na nÓg's self-titled
Robbie Băsho's Song of the Stallion
Bert Jansch's Rosemary Lane
John Fahey's America
Shelagh McDonald's Stargazer
Pentangle's Reflection etc.

What an amazing year is 1971, but I have listed what I consider to be three big albums of the year of the Progressive Acid Folk persuasion.

For those who don't know all three albums, some samples:

Comus' "The Herald" (eerily beautiful)



Jan Dukes de Grey's "Sun Symphonica"



Spirogyra's "The Duke of Beaufoot"



Edited by Logan - February 25 2019 at 10:37

Nothing is better than COMUS. Probably a top five album of all time. 

Edited by siLLy puPPy - February 25 2019 at 08:15

This isn't close. Comus' First Utterance is one of the greatest prog albums ever.

Sorry for St. Radigunds which is a minor masterpiece in its own right - but literally nothing compares to First Utterance

Definitely Comus. The other two are not comparable in my mind. (Meaning in terms of quality, not in terms of type of music, obviously) 

Gettiing into Comus recently so Comus

Of these three, Comus. But as Greg noted in his original post, there are far greater folk albums from that year (Cat Stevens, Roy Harper, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, etc.).

Comus.

Comus 

Sean Trane wrote: Hadn't seen this thread in its first life Logan wrote: Comus' "The Herald" (eerily beautiful) This is a very interesting video, which I wasn't aware of. Obviously a time piece, but it's not the pastoral girl scenes I find most interesting, but there are short trafficked snippets of the band filmed ... Can you tell me if there are more of these or these were taken from a different source, please?

I din;t make the video, it's Picnic at Hanging Rock mixed with band footage, but looking closely at the video, I don't think that's Comus. There a double-bass and the line-up does not like right. I think it's Pentangle. I looked up some live concert footage of Pentangle, and compare to this: