Barry Dransfield
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Barry Dransfield (* Harrogate, Yorkshire ) is a British folk singer and fiddler, who is known to keep his violin in front of the chest rather than under the chin, to sing and play at the same time to be able to.
At the age of fourteen years began Dransfield in pubs in Yorkshire to occur. In the early 1960s he played for three years in a bluegrass trio called The Crimple Mountain Boys, in which he shared the stage for the first time with his three- year-older brother Robin. The Crimple Mountain Boys separated when Robin decided to become a teacher, and moved to Worcester, where he soon also founded a folk club. Barry took first in London job with a harp maker, returned to a nervous breakdown, but back to Harrogate. Since Robin had his desire to become a teacher abandoned, the two brothers in the summer of 1969 were finally able to start a duo. They played soon in various folk clubs together with British folk greats such as Ewan MacColl, Martin Carthy and the Watersons.
In 1970, the first album the brothers appeared on Bill Leaders label Trailer Records. The Rout of the Blues was voted by the Melody Maker for folk album of the year. Also, the 1971 album Lord of All I Behold got positive press. Ashley Hutchings tried to move to his relatively young band Steeleye Span to join, which they refused even Robin and Barry Dransfield. Instead, the two committed Jo Lustig as a manager who was trying to persuade the duo in a more commercial direction. However, this did not fit Barry. He ended unceremoniously musical collaboration with his brother and instead took in 1972 for Polydor his first solo album, Barry Dransfield, on which Barry took over all the instruments and vocals himself. In the same year he participated in the first album of English folk supergroup Morris On.
In the summer of 1974, Barry joined again together with Robin. The two now wanted to tap into folk-rock itself, involving more electric instruments and play their own compositions, rather than work up traditional folk songs. Together with Brian Harrison, who had previously played with Dave Stewart in various projects, they founded a folk - rock trio and called themselves "The Dran Fields". After a John Peel session in late 1975 and the addition of drummer Charlie Smith, the concept album The Fiddler 's Dream was released in July 1976 under the name " Dransfield " on Transatlantic Records, which among other things due to poor promotion it sold miserably. Nevertheless, the Dran Fields of Steeleye Span were invited to a tour of France, where they, however, the main band obviously put in the shade. Fairport Convention said then canceled a planned tour together and the brothers toured instead with Tom Paxton, whose core audience they could not impress with their modern sound. The Dran Fields decided to place as a result, their folk-rock experiment on ice and again to make a traditional music duo.
For 1977 Popular to Contrary Belief appeared one last album together, the brothers went their separate ways and devoted themselves to their solo careers. In 1978, Barry Fields Dran second solo album Bowin ' and Scrapin ' on Topic Records, after he retired from the music scene and opened a shop for repair of violins and cellos in Hastings. In 1994, Dransfield then made a comeback with the release of Be Your Own Man. In 1996 Wings of the Sphinx and 2005 Unruly.