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HEDGEHOG PIE...LIVE! Blue Guitar Records BGCD023
Yes, we've finally done it.
"Hedgehog Pie...Live!" is a brand new release, comprising live recordings of the band's two seminal line-ups from 1975-79, plus two bonus tracks of studio recordings never before released. All tracks have been expertly remastered to retain all of their original attack and excitement.
Given the fact that their studio albums still languish at the bottom of a vault somewhere in Yorkshire (!), this CD is the only HP recording currently available.
It'll be in the shops from September 1st.
For those who don't know, or are too young to recall, Hedgehog Pie were at the fore-front of the electric folk movement, weaving jazz and rock grooves into their arrangements of traditional and self-composed songs and tunes.

Their studio albums always topped the Folk Album charts of the day, and they toured with the likes of John Martyn, Richard Thompson and as headliners throughout the 70s.
From their first release in 1974 to their demise was a very short but intensely creative six years.
The first line-up, a full-blooded 6-piece band, features Martin Jenkins (later Whippersnapper, Bert Jansch Band) alongside the core members Mick Doonan, Jed Grimes and Stu and Margi Luckley. The band's embracing of Bulgarian cross-rhythms, jazz grooves and almost metal attack marked them out as unique.
The second line-up, with a more introspective, acoustic based sound, features Jed's electric guitar, Mick's uillean pipes and flutes with the vocal and guitar talents of the mighty Dave Burland. Their knack for blending electric guitar and pipes, and Jed's patent 'pipes guitar' sound, caused Karl Dallas among others to view them as the new direction for amplified folk.
>> Listen to it / buy it online here...
>> Solo album out now! / more...
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