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Marianne’s two folk albums from the 60’s were conceived as a pair. Where Marianne’s first folk album Come My Way, had largely been compiled from music of the American folk revival, her second, released in April 1966 was built around songs from the British Isles. Rightly hailed as her finest LP of the 60s, North Country Maid conclusively established her as an artist with a unique stylistic approach, and many of its songs (such as ‘Scarborough Fair’) were not yet the established folk/pop standards they would soon become. Featuring emotive interpretations of songs by contemporary folk writers like Cyril Tawney’s ‘Sally Free And Easy’, Bert Jansch’s ‘Green Are Your Eyes’ and Ewan MacColl’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’, the album also includes traditional material such as the title track and ‘She Moved Thru’ The Fair’, which is one of the few songs Marianne performed throughout her life; it even appears on her final release, the 2025 E.P. Burning Moonlight.
In America over half the album was released in December 1965 on her second London Records long player Go Away From My World, which rounded out its folk track list with some of Marianne’s recent pop hits. Marianne’s American discography during the 60s differed radically from the records she released in the UK and Europe, where her LP’s were released thematically as two pop albums and two folk albums. Go Away from My World which replicated the artwork of her eponymous U.K. debut front and back, contained the following tracks:
1. Go Away From My World
2. Yesterday
3. Come My Way (re-recorded version)
4. Last Thing On My Mind
5. How Should True Love
6. Wild Mountain Thyme
7. Summer Nights (7″ version)
8. Mary Ann (re-recorded version)
9. Scarborough Fair
10.Lullabye
11.North Country Maid
12.Sally Free And Easy
North Country Maid will be re-released on vinyl in August, (when it also receives its first ever US vinyl release) in a new edition that has been remastered from the original tapes by the Grammy nominated Andrew Batt who also provides detailed sleevenotes which Marianne contributed to before her passing in January 2025.
Arrangements: Jon Mark and Michael John Taylor.
Musicians: Jon Mark, guitar; Michael John Taylor, guitar; Danny Thompson, bass; Alec Hutchison, harmonica; Jim Sullivan, 12-string guitar, sitar, sarod and surburha; Chris Karan, tabla.