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Originally posted by Affair on Touhy Ave.:
Anyone know of this folk group?
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Of course I heard
Pentangle
in the UK. but my mind I particularly remembered their beautifully voiced lead singer
Jacqui McShee
but the funny thing is I immediately said to myself
Annie Haslam who turns out to be another lead singer again with a beautiful voice but she was with a somewhat similarly inspired and contemporary group called
"Renaisance"
whose best known hit was probably the wonderful "Northern Lights"
from
Jacqui McShee's Pentangle
"The Pentangle was one of the three principal groups that established the English folk-rock sound that still attracts fans to this day. Probably best-known of the three was Fairport Convention, which was founded by Richard Thompson, and featured as their lead vocalist the late Sandy Denny. The other was Steeleye Span, whose singer was Maddy Prior, and was perhaps the most electric of the three."
and
"The Pentangle was perhaps the least-known in this country, though the most eclectic of the three"
notice the clever juxtaposition there of "electric" and "eclectic"
and I am not alone in comparing Jacqui and Annie as on
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1...r/pentangl.htm
I read
"Jacqui McShee is my favorite woman singer, only compared with Joan Baez and Annie Haslan (sic)"