Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron on the cover of the first Incredible String Band album The Incredible String Band were one of the most influential bands of the Sixties but their roots ...

British singer-songwriter Licorice McKechnie performing with the Incredible String Band at Woodstock in 1969 - Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images Some say she disappeared while hitch-hiking ...

In 2007 a friend I had met in the US came to stay for a few days. She put some music she thought I might like on my laptop. Two of these albums turned out to be two of the most important things that ...

Mike Heron A couple of years ago I looked up and realised that my musical output had dwindled and now consisted mainly of performances of Incredible String Band material with the Glasgow band ...

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors Modern ears frequently can’t get past the more frivolous side of The Incredible String Band: the ...

The Incredible String Band were one of the most influential bands of the Sixties but their roots lie in the folk clubs of Edinburgh. Their incredible journey took them from experimenting in Scotland's ...

Although its initial rise was concurrent with that of kindred bands like Fairport Convention and Pentangle, the Incredible String Band was something of an anomaly even then, what with its world-music ...

Mentally wipe away the Faerie Tale cutesiness and these British freak-folk progenitors are revealed as uncompromising visionaries. A twisting, turning epic like the 13-minute “A Very Cellular Song,” ...

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