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6 unusual facts about Gay Woods


Ashley Hutchings

Hutchings' new band Steeleye Span was formed by putting together two established folk duos Tim Hart and Maddy Prior with Terry and Gay Woods.

Gay Woods

Irvine also dropped out, resuming his solo career prior to meeting Dónal Lunny, with whom he would soon form a duo.

The Woods went to Nottingham immediately after the recording, and received a phone call a week later to say that they had been replaced by Martin Carthy.

A friend of Terry Woods offered the new band a house in Winterbourne Stoke as a rehearsal place.

Terry Woods became a member of Sweeney's Men, who played English and American folk music, plus their own compositions.

Mr. Fox

They took part in rehearsals but the embryonic band soon broke up and Hutchings went on to form Steeleye Span with Woods and his wife Gay.


Terry Woods

He is known for his membership in such folk and folk-rock groups as The Pogues, Steeleye Span, Sweeney's Men, The Bucks and, briefly, Dr. Strangely Strange and Dublin rock band Orphanage, with Phil Lynott, as well as in a duo/band with his then wife, Gay, billed initially as The Woods Band and later as Gay and Terry Woods.


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