Stroll On
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| Studio album by Steve Ashley | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Studio | Olympic Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Folk music | |||
| Label | Gull Records (LP: GULP1003 – UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, 1974; GU6-401S1 – United States, 1975: GU-401V1 – Canada, 1975); Line Records (LP: LRLP 5373 AP, 6.26043 – Germany, date unknown); Air Mail Archive (CD, remastered: AIRAC-1154 – Japan, 2005) | |||
| Producer | Austin John Marshall | |||
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| Stroll On Revisited | ||||
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| Studio album by Steve Ashley | ||||
| Released | 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Folk music | |||
| Label | Market Square Records (CD: MSMCD104) | |||
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Stroll On is the debut album by British singer-songwriter Steve Ashley. It was released in April 1974 in LP format on Gull Records and was critically acclaimed in the UK, being awarded “Contemporary Folk album of the Year” in the leading monthly folk magazine, Folk Review. It has been described as "a masterful, beautifully textured and gentle epic" and "a masterpiece of its kind – a beautiful, rich and deeply atmospheric collection of very English songs, like a musical impression of Dickens, Victorian Christmas cards and Thomas Hardy’s Wessex with a running concept concerning seasonal change".
An extended version with three additional tracks, Stroll On Revisited, was released in 1999 as a CD on Market Square Records.
In 1971 Austin John Marshall arranged a production and publishing deal for Steve Ashley with Harbrook Music which gave Ashley free access to recording time at London’s Olympic Studios to record his first album. At this time Marshall also played the early demo tapes to music critic Karl Dallas, who interviewed Ashley for Melody Maker.
Acting as producer for Harbrook Productions, Marshall hired Robert Kirby to create string arrangements for many of Ashley’s songs. He also hired a number of musicians to back Ashley, including members of Fairport Convention and Pentangle, plus a section of the London Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kirby. By the late summer of 1971 the first version of Ashley’s debut album was completed and offered to a number of major and independent labels.
By the spring of 1972 however, the album was still unplaced with a label, and then Ashley was invited by Ashley Hutchings to join the first touring ensemble of The Albion Country Band. This line-up included ex-Fairport members Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks, plus American fiddler Sue Draheim and ex-Young Tradition singer, Royston Wood. Sharing the lead vocal role with Wood, Ashley performed a few of his own songs plus a number of folk songs, including a 17-verse ballad, "Lord Bateman". The Albion Country Band was signed to Island Records but the band broke up before recording, after just nine months together.
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