A non-profit-making label, set up by enthusiasts Gordon Mignot, Dave Williams and Andy Jackson to record Folk music from Hampshire and Dorset. Forest Tracks issued vinyl records from 1972 to 1984, continued releasing cassettes sporadically after the vinyl issued had ceased, and turned to CDs in 2002. It concentrated upon long playing records in the main, one LP financing the next, but it managed three singles: 'The Woolston Ferry', by Gutta Percha & The Balladeers (FT-0011; 1977); a split single by Muffin The Mule and Dave Williams, 'So Ride With Me' b/w 'The Watercress Line' (FT-1013; 1978), which was a benefit record for the Mid Hants Railway; and a Various Artists effort called 'Flour Of The Forest' (FT-1017; 1980). Most of the LPs, cassettes and singles shared the prefix and last three digits of the same FT-x000 numerical series, LPs having a '3' where the 'x' is, cassettes a '6' and singles a '0' or a '1'. Forest Tracks has its own website, here.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.