An obscure offering from North of the border. 'Folk On The Fringe '76' may well have been the name of the EP rather than the label, but it will have to do as a means of identification because the label has no other name on it. The band responsible for the record was Mannfolk with Gill McLean; the tracks on it were 'Bobby', 'Dream Angus', 'Ma Burd's A Teuchter' and 'Fhir a Bhata'. The catalogue number, CS-7252, belongs to a block used by Craighall Studios, of Edinburgh; see 'TD / Craighall' for other examples. As can be seen from the scan, the label bore a family resemblance to the other Craighall Studios labels, such as Mayfair and JD (q.v. both). The style of the pressing marks suggests that Linguaphone were responsible for manufacture. Presumably the EP was on sale not long after the 1976 Edinburgh Festival. The Mannfolk made another appearance at the Fringe in 1977 and made another record, which came out on the Osprey label (q.v.) in that same year.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.