Saturday, December 7, 2019

The 1986 Listening Post - Steeleye Span - Back in Line

Steeleye Span - Back in Line



#188/1353
May 1986
Steeleye Span
Bank in Line
Genre: Soft/Folk Rock
3.25 out of 5




Who is Steeleye Span!?!?

Exactly.


Wait…this is their TWELFTH ALBUM!?!?!? Shut the front door. 


There is, in Somesville in Maine, a lovely little repertory theater called, appropriately, The Acadia Repertory Theater. It’s a professional endeavor but, back when I volunteered there (for, like, two days) it had a very communal feel. It was rustic and bucolic. I feel like this record would be something they would play while they were building sets, eating from the communal table, smoking weed and orgying in the woods. 

It’s very pastoral and folky and British and i don’t know they history of what they are singing about but I don’t mind it. One day The Decemberists will mine this sound and be heralded for it. 




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