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***A founding member of The Incredible String Band, Clive Palmer is a virtuoso banjo player and distinguished folk musician who has recorded at least three (still sort of "lost") classic albums with ensembles C.O.B. (Clive's Original Band) and The Famous Jug Band. Palmer has been in several other mythical bands, and has released a selection of awe-inspiring solo albums all the way up to the present time. Ten of the songs constituting All Roads Lead To Land were recorded during a 1999 session with two additional tracks culled from previous UK-only releases. The songs were picked by Steve Fellows, assigned songselector for an overview retrospective of Palmer's long and varied career. However, upon hearing the 1999 sessions, it was decided that these magical tracks, previously unreleased, stood up with the best of his previously released material and deserved to be heard. Considering the high quality of Palmer's previous work, this cannot be considered faint praise. Clive was the best banjo player I ever heard, in every mode. He could be frail, he could do Edwardian Music Hall stuff, and he could play bluegrass. He taught me a couple of things. I loved his lifestyle, his exotic hippiness. He was my banjo hero, and still is. --Billy Connolly, BBC Radio Two - Solo recordings with notable exceptions: Famous Jug Band colleagues Jill Johnson, Pete Berryman and Henry Bartlett on the album opener, and ISB's Robin Williamson plays fiddle on "Paris"
- Résumé includes co-founding the Incredible String Band, and founding C.O.B. and Famous Jug Band
- Thirty years of excellence continuing on unabated
- Distinctive mix of folk traditions (Eastern, Celtic, Edwardian and Appalachian), bluegrass guile, and old-timey aplomb
- Working on new material in Autumn '04
30-second MP3 excerpts: Oh For Summer
You Were Meant For Me
Lament For Shelley
Sands of Time
Breizh
Broken Dreams
Paris
Linden Lea
Dans la Campagne
Big City Blues
Baby Sing The Blues
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