It's only right that the success of the current folk revival should lead to renewed interest in the mavericks of the first British folk movement, back in the 60s and 70s, but attention has tended to concentrate on the London scene and the artists who recorded for Transatlantic, Topic or Island. This intriguing set of "lost songs, dreams and folkadelia from the vaults of Village Thing, 1970-74" is a reminder that there was also a healthy experimental folk scene in Bristol, where the independent Village Thing Records was home for an array of guitarists, singer-songwriters and exponents of what would later be called psych-folk. Most of them were impressive players, concentrating on new rather than traditional songs, judging from this 40th–anniversary set of recordings that have mostly never appeared on CD before. There are skilful guitar ballads from Wizz Jones, Steve Tilston and Dave Evans, quirky blues from Al Jones, fiddle-backed alt-country from Dave Peabody, and some excellent guitar workouts from Chris Thompson. Then there's Ian A Anderson (who has dropped that middle A now he edits fRoots magazine) with a reminder that he used to wear dodgy shirts and compose drifting psych-folk songs with titles such as Marie Celeste on Down. Fascinating.