Various - Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies Of The CanyonBy 1970, the folk revival had all but ended. Gone were the heady days of Will The Circle Be Unbroken and If I Had A Hammer. Hootenanny had been cancelled. Broadside was out, Rolling Stone in. Richard Faria was dead; Bob Dylan had plugged in. Paths paved by Joan Baez and Judy Collins had led a younger, more introspective generation of songwriters into the woods, while the ethos forged in weather beaten hills and tempered on the lower east side of

lyrically addressing very human concerns

All the elements that made the band a legend are present here: piledriver rhythm section

and once again

Together they formed Erland & The Carnival and now

The new album is another fertile marriage between motorik Mitteleuropa pulse and subtropical guitar and percussion textures

the sound had changed in line with Hardy's solidifying vision and voice

Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys

Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson will be a familiar name to '70s jazz enthusiasts

Produced by Chris Walla (formerly of Death Cab For Cutie)

Mikal arranged the strings

Rhythm And Sound'

with a bear of a name and a thick herd of band members