Songs from Wasties Orchard explained

Songs from Wasties Orchard
Type:studio
Artist:Magna Carta
Cover:Songs from Wasties Orchard.jpg
Released:May 6, 1971
Recorded:Trident Studios, London
Genre:Art rock, progressive rock
Length:34:52
Label:Vertigo
Producer:Gus Dudgeon
Prev Title:Seasons
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:In Concert
Next Year:1972

Songs from Wasties Orchard is a 1971 studio album released by Magna Carta on Vertigo Records. It features Davey Johnstone, vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, mandolin, sitar, harpsichord & cymbals; Chris Simpson, vocals, acoustic guitar & percussion; Glen Stewart, vocals, lyre & wine glass.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. The Bridge at Knaresborough Town
  2. White Snow Dove
  3. Parliament Hill
  4. Wayfarin'
  5. Down Along Up
  6. Country Jam

Side 2

  1. Time for the Leaving
  2. Isle of Skye
  3. Sponge
  4. Sunday on the River
  5. Good Morning Sun
  6. Home Groan

See also

Location

Wasties Orchard is a small estate of flats built in the late 1960s in the village of Long Hanborough, near Oxford. The band were living here when the album was being recorded.