BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1CD - BRIXTON
2023

1LP - UNIVERSAL MUSIC
2016

SOLD OUT
1LP - DEF JAM RECORDINGS
1990 => 2018

1LP - LENCH MOB - NWA
1991 => 2016

1LP - UNIVERSAL MUSIC
1988 => 2016

1LP - CAPITOL RECORDS
1957 => 2017

1LP - BEASTIE BOYS JV
1995 => 2019

1LP - POLYDOR
2021

1LP - VIRGIN
2016

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1LP - EMI
1989 => 2022

2LP - POLYDOR
1994 => 2021

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - IMPULSE!
2022 => 2023

1LP - BEASTIE BOYS JV
1995 => 2023

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2LP - POLYDOR
1994 => 2021

2LP - UNIVERSAL MUSIC
1998 => 2022

2LP - AFTERMATH
2015 => 2022

2LP - ROC-A-FELLA
2005 => 2022

2LP - MOTOWN
1997 => 2022

2LP - EMI
1994 => 2022

2LP - INTERSCOPE
1995 => 2022

2LP - INTERSCOPE
1993 => 2018

1LP - DEF JAM RECORDINGS
1986 => 2023

2LP - AFTERMATH
2017 => 2022

2LP - INTERSCOPE
1991 => 2017

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2LP - ACE
2023

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1CD - KENT
1971 => 2023

BIS => 2025 04 25
1CD - KENT
1970 => 2023

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1CD - ACE
2023

BIS => 2023 12 01
2LP - MR BONGO RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2023 12 01
7 INCH - MR BONGO RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2023 12 01
1LP - MR BONGO RECORDS
1983 => 2023

BIS => 2023 12 01
1LP - MR BONGO RECORDS
1967 => 2023

BIS => 2023 12 01
2LP - MR BONGO RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2024 02 02
PINK INDIE ONLY
2LP - MR BONGO RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - RCA RECORDS LABEL
2015

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - S.M.A.L.L.
2003 => 2019

2LP - SAINT RECORDS / COLUMBIA
2016

2LP - THIRD PARTY
1995

2LP - EPIC
1998

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - TAN CRESSIDA / COLUMBIA
2019

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - RCA GROUP
2023

SOLD OUT
1LP - MONDE LIBRE
2023

SOLD OUT
1LP - MONDE LIBRE
2023

1LP - SAINT RECORDS / COLUMBIA
2019

1LP - EPIC
1991

12 INCH - EPIC
2016

12 INCH - EPIC
1992 => 2016

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - FAT BEATS RECORDS
2020

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2017

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2018

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
PIC SLEEVE
7 INCH - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2019

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
PIC SLEEVE
7 INCH - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2019

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - GOLDEN WOLF RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
ORANGE & BLUE RAY COLORED VINYL
1LP - FULL PLATE
2007 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - BRUTAL MUSIC
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1CD - BRUTAL MUSIC
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
GLACIAL CLEAR BLUE
7 INCH - CQQL
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - CQQL
2023

BIS => 2024 02 23
DELUXE HARD-CARDBOARD SLEEVE COVER
180G VINYL + OBI
1LP - MAD ABOUT RECORDS
1976 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - REEL PEOPLE MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - MR BONGO
1975 => 2024

PRE ORDER => 2024 02 23
1CD - MR BONGO RECORDS
1973 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 17
1LP - REY RECORD
2021 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 17
1LP - PENNIMAN
2024

BIS => 2024 05 17
1LP - AKENATON
2024

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - VAMPISOUL
2024

PRE ORDER => 2024 04 26
7 INCH - MUNSTER
2024

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - PURKEKTSTORM GROUP
2024

BIS => 2025 01 17
HAND-NUMBERED JACKETS ENHANCED WITH SPOT GLOSS OVER THE GHOST LOGO
2LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2018 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
LIMITED EDITON HAND NUMBERED
EVERGREEN COLORED VINYL
1LP - SRFSCHL
2024

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - SRFSCHL
2024

PRE ORDER => 2025 04 25
1CD - ACE
2004 => 2025

TRACKLIST
1. CORN RIGS - Magnet & Paul Giovanni
2. MORNING WAY - Trader Horne
3. NOTTANUM TOWN - Oberon
4. GRAVEYARD - Forest
5. THE SKATER - Midwinter
6. WINTER WINDS - Fotheringay
7. LORD AND MASTER - Heron
8. FLY HIGH - Bridget St John
9. SHEEP SEASON - Mellow Candle
10. THE SEAGULLS SCREAM - Christine Quayle
11. FOREST AND THE SHORE - Keith Christmas
12. ROSEMARY HILL - Fresh Maggots
13. FINE HORSEMAN - Anne Briggs
14. THE WEREWOLF - Barry Dransfield
15. ANOTHER DAY - Roy Harper
16. WINDOW OVER THE BAY - Vashti Bunyan
17. ELEVEN WILLOWS – C.O.B. (Clive's Original Band)
18. THE HERALD – Comus

DESCRIPTION
Compiled by Bob Stanley to document the acid folk scene, “Gather In The Mushrooms” was first issued in 2004 on Sanctuary as a CD-only release; it proved popular enough for a sequel entitled “Early Morning Hush” two years later.
This new edition of “Gather In The Mushrooms” contains the cream of both long-deleted compilations with a few additions – COB, Roy Harper, Fotheringay – that weren’t available to Sanctuary at the time. Though they aren’t traditional, these songs have an authenticity of their own, an autumnal atmosphere and a naivety which proved influential in the 00s neo-folk boom (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Alasdair Roberts, Tunng et al) but impossible to replicate. For many of these acts at the end of the 60s, folk music and the hippy world that surrounded them was a way of life, a way of opting out from the Vietnam war, Angry Brigade and three-day-week early 70s. Anne Briggs lived in a caravan in Suffolk, Shelagh McDonald lived in a tent, Vashti Bunyan eschewed electricity; they weren’t part-timers. Listening to “Gather In The Mushrooms”, we are transported to a time when no one used the term post-modernist.
It may not have resonated with dyed-in-the wool political folkies, but over five decades later this music sounds very evocative of an England of yore – not necessarily one of poachers and pedlars, but one of long-haired youths in tie-dye T-shirts, bikers and hippies, acoustic guitars played in white stone cottages. Groups like Stone Angel (Bonus Track), Midwinter and Oberon made primitive, privately recorded folk albums; today they sound as distant and mystical as the field recordings of Alan Lomax. The sincerity and folk knowledge of a group like Forest becomes irrelevant once you hear something as eerie and evocative as ‘Graveyard’. Home-made, homely, warm as soup or chilling as a hoar frost, this is music of innocence and rare beauty.

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EP - SRFSCHL
2012 => 2018

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - GROOVIE RECORDS
1974 => 2017

BIS => 2024 05 24
PURPLE LP
1LP - GROOVIE RECORDS
1974 => 2017

BIS => 2024 05 24
DELUXE HARD-CARDBOARD SLEEVE COVER
180G VINYL + OBI
1LP - MAD ABOUT RECORDS
1981 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - ELPALMAS MUSIC
1980 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - GROOVIE RECORDS
1977 => 2016

BIS => 2024 05 24
GREEN LP LTD. 100 COPIES
1LP - GROOVIE RECORDS
1977 => 2016

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - GROOVIE RECORDS
2010

BIS => 2024 05 24
PINK LP LTD. 200 COPIES
1LP - GROOVIE RECORDS
2010

BIS => 2024 05 24
7 INCH - GROOVIE RECORDS
1968 => 2014

BIS => 2024 05 24
RED 7" LTD. 100 COPIES
7 INCH - GROOVIE RECORDS
1968 => 2014

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - ELPALMAS MUSIC
1980 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - ELPALMAS MUSIC
1979 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 24
1LP - ELPALMAS MUSIC
1969 => 2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
1LP - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
1LP - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
LIMITED 300 COPIES
1LP - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
HIGH-BIAS CASSETTE, BRONZE CASSETTE, BLACK CASING, SHRINK WRAPPED
LIMITED TO 50 COPIES
CASSETTE - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
LIMITED EDITION
1LP - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
LIMITED EDITION, 300 COPIES
1LP - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
LIMITED EDITION
1LP - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2024

BIS => 2024 05 10
LIMITED EDITION, 300 COPIES
7 INCH - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2023

BIS => 2024 05 10
LIMITED EDITION, 300 COPIES
7 INCH - TAPE KINGZ MUSIC
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
LIMITED DELUXE EDITION OF 500 COPIES
RED W/ BLACK SPLATTER
3LP - PINK SIIFU
2020 => 2024

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2021

IN STOCK
PINK VINYL WITH BLACK SPLATTER
RUN PRESSED AT 45 RPM
140-GRAM VINYL
HOUSED IN A 24PT REVERSE BOARD JACKET 
1LP - NOVELTY RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
PRESSED ON 180G DISCS
EQUIPPED WITH BLACK DUST SLEEVES AND METALLIC SILVER DETAILING ON THE CENTER LABELS
12” X 12” INSERT OF THE ALBUM ART
1LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2022 => 2024

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
PRESSED ON A “CHERRY BOMB” COLOR CONFIGURATION
COMPRISED OF A PURPLE AND YELLOW COLOR-IN-COLOR DISC WITH MAGENTA SPLATTER
1LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2022 => 2024