Bonus Episode: Joe Boyd and John Wood in conversation at Cecil Sharp House
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Joe Boyd and John Wood were the producer and sound engineer behind some of the greatest folk rock albums of the 1960s and 70s. They worked with Pink Floyd on their first single Arnold Layne, with Fairport Convention on Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief and with Nick Drake on Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon. John produced John Martyn’s Bless The Weather and Solid Air while Joe worked with the Incredible String Band. In this conversation with Matthew Bannister on stage at the Indoor Festival of Folk, they tell the extraordinary stories behind the creation of these classic albums.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everybody. Just amazing to have these two gentlemen on stage with me. |
| 0:05.0 | When I was a teenager and I first seriously started buying records, |
| 0:11.0 | it suddenly occurred to me to look at who made those records as well as who played on them. |
| 0:17.0 | And the names Joe Boyd and John Wood and Witch Season Productions and a little picture of a witch on a broomstick |
| 0:24.9 | seemed to turn up on all the albums that I bought and I bought 18 of them with me today and if you can see them |
| 0:31.4 | around the stage and they all turned out to be absolute classics of folk rock. |
| 0:39.9 | And if you can't see the albums, they're by John Martin, there by Nick Drake, |
| 0:45.0 | there by Fairport Convention, they're by Sandy Denny. |
| 0:49.7 | There's just every name that you could think of at that time. |
| 0:53.3 | And what I hope we might do gentlemen |
| 0:55.3 | today is take people to a time and a place and evoke some music and some people and the time |
| 1:05.2 | would be the 1960s and 70s when you were both working together um and the place would be sound technique studios |
| 1:12.5 | which was really at the heart of |
| 1:14.2 | all of this recording |
| 1:16.0 | and the people would be some of the names that I've |
| 1:18.9 | just mentioned so please would you welcome |
| 1:21.3 | Joe Boyd and John Wood to the stage |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you So we're going back to the mid-1960s now, and Joe, you're an American, and you're here in London. |
| 1:39.3 | What brought you to London in the first place? |
| 1:42.4 | Well, I first came to London in the spring of 64 as a tour manager for a package called |
| 1:51.5 | the Blues and Gospel Caravan with Muddy Waters and Sister Rosette Thar of Branmegee, |
| 1:55.9 | Sonny Terry, Reverend Gary Davis. |
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