STEELEYE Span has seven charting albums ... The first two, ‘Below The Salt’ and ‘Parcel Of Rogues’ show the band developing this aspect of their repertoire, by using the electric guitars ...

The speaker of that sentence was Maddy Prior, singer of the great English folk-rock band Steeleye Span ... to See the King” through 1973's “Parcel of Rogues,” their sound is haunting ...

The next three years marked Steeleye Span’s apogee. With Maddy Prior’s vocal skills, Peter Knight’s virtuosity on the fiddle and Johnson’s rock guitar work, they enjoyed commercial success with the ...

Steeleye Span have even managed a couple ... in 1973 with the acapella Christmas hit Gaudete. Albums like A Parcel Of Rogues, Now We Are Six (produced by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and featuring ...

Since their debut in 1969, Steeleye Span has been one of the most influential names in British roots music. The group helped changed the face of folk music forever taking it from small clubs into ...

Nodding at AA Milne’s children’s poetry book of the same name, 1974’s Now We Are Six was Steeleye Span’s sixth LP, and the record which saw their folk go folk rock. When former Uriah Heep ...