Today's post was prompted by a recent edition of Rol's widely acclaimed 'Namesakes' series - a concept so good its somewhat surprising nobody else had thought of it before.
Last week's episode featured a ropy Dutch string band called The Crooks who mutated over time to become a slightly less ropy Dutch folk band called King's Galliard. That name was familiar to me because they are included on a compilation of Dutch folk and folk-rock that I picked up from a market stall in The Hague many years ago.
The album rejoices under the title "Dutch Rare Folk: 43 Lost Classics". Having dusted it off for possibly the first time since I bought it I don't think you could describe all, or indeed any, of them as lost classics. But it is better than I remember it being and it seems that the Netherlands were awash with fine female folk singers back in the 1970s.
"De Boerenplof / De Skotse Trije" - King's Galliard
"It Gefang" - Irolt
"'t Visserke" - Deirdre
Further Dutch sounds of the seventies below...
It's all Double Dutch to me
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