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3 unusual facts about Steeleye Span


Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan

She was also the subject of a song Isabel by Steeleye Span (recorded on their album Back in Line) which claims without foundation that she was Bruce's lover (and also gets some chronology confused).

Pirate Jenny

Many notable artists have covered this song independent of the stage show: Lotte Lenya, Steeleye Span, Ute Lemper, Charlotte Rae, Nina Simone, The Dresden Dolls, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, Marc Almond and Bea Arthur.

Wintersmith

In 2013 folk-rock band Steeleye Span collaborated with Pratchett, a fan of the band, to produce a Wintersmith concept album, released in October 2013.


Down in Yon Forest

It has been recorded by artists including Joan Baez, Martyn Bates with Max Eastley, Shirley Collins, The Albion Band, Bruce Cockburn, Kemper Crabb, Burl Ives (on Christmas Day in the Morning), John McCutcheon, Jean Ritchie, Bob Rowe, Andreas Scholl, Steeleye Span, Wovenhand, and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge.

Horkstow

Historic folk associations with the Grange inspired the Steeleye Span band name, and their album Horkstow Grange.

Siege of Lathom House

The folk-rock band Steeleye Span memorialized the siege in the title song of their album They Called Her Babylon.

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.


see also

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.

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.

Rick Kemp

He was the husband of Steeleye Span lead vocalist Maddy Prior, but they have since divorced.

The Dancing Did

The Dancing Did were a British post-punk/folk punk group formed in Evesham in 1979, who were described as "a cross between the Clash and Steeleye Span".