Silver Birch

Silver Birch put out a rare limited-edition self-titled album of quite respectable British folk in 1974, influenced by the likes of Fairport Convention, the Strawbs, and the Young Tradition, but wholly in the acoustic folk (as opposed to folk-rock) style. The six members all sang and played a wide array of instruments, including acoustic guitar, fiddle, harmonium, bells, recorder, and autoharp. The sharing of lead vocal duties by several different singers, as well as the use of male-female harmonies by various combinations of the members (four of them male and two female), als...