Nicely Out Of Tune - LINDISFARNE*****

Lady Eleanor/Rode To Kingdom Come/Winter Song/Turn A Deaf Ear/Clear White Light/We Can Swing Together/Alan In The River With Flowers/Down/The Things I Should Have Said/Jackhammer Blues/Scarecrow Song

Nicely Out Of Tune was the excellent debut album from the Tyneside folk-rock group Lindisfarne. In reality they were far more rock than folk. Includes the UK No. 3 hit single Lady Eleanor. (UK:8)

"Probably the best folk album of its kind. Combining folk and rock music with politically edged lyrics, courtesy of Alan Hull. The album stands up to repeated playing; I have had it since 1970 and never tire of it."

"On Nicely Out Of Tune they play a style of electric folk less beholden to traditional sensibilities and more in touch with then current styles in art rock than the likes of Fairport Convention or Steeleye Span."

"Due to its goodtime seventies vibe with some spiritual reflections, one of the very most played albums of my life. The sound of the band's harmonies on Turn A Deaf Ear and Clear White Light is just magical."

"There are protest songs mixed in with love songs, ballads, and kick up your heels barn dances. But through it all there is a feeling of fun and kindred spirit. Alan Hull singing Winter Song would send shivers down any spine."

"A very good folk album with the fantastic Lady Eleanor with its haunting melody and long acoustic coda. Clear White Light starting a cappella wonderful vocal harmonies, and We Can Swing Together with its harmonica solo are really good too."

"A classic lost album that undoubtedly contains many of their finest tracks. Lindisfarne wrote great folk/pop songs and their singing just captured something indefinable. Lady Eleanor is justifiably famous, with its ethereally delicate intro, sublime lyrics and soaring chorus. Clear White Light is almost as good and Winter Song touches the heart with haunting perennial questions about society's disregard for the poor and marginalised. And some of their songs are quite funny at times too."

"A really great album from this folk-rock band that criminally went underappreciated in their time. Lady Eleanor is amazing, as is the good time rocker Kingdom Come with great harmonica and fiddle."