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| Released | May 1974 |
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| Recorded | 1971 |
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| Studio | Olympic Studios, London |
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| Genre | Folk music |
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| Label | Gull Records (LP: GULP1003 – UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, 1974; GU6-401S1 – United States, 1975: GU-401V1 – Canada, 1975); Line Records (LP: LRLP 5373 AP, 6.26043 – Germany, date unknown); Air Mail Archive (CD, remastered: AIRAC-1154 – Japan, 2005) |
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| Producer | Austin John Marshall |
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Stroll On
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Speedy Return
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- "Old Rock 'n Roll" / "Fire and Wine"
Released: 1974: GULS 9 (UK); (New Zealand)
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Stroll On is the debut album by British singer-songwriter Steve Ashley. It was released in April 1974 in LP format on Gull Records and was critically acclaimed in the UK, being awarded “Contemporary Folk album of the Year” in the leading monthly folk magazine, Folk Review. It has been described as "a masterful, beautifully textured and gentle epic" and "a masterpiece of its kind – a beautiful, rich and deeply atmospheric collection of very English songs, like a musical impression of Dickens, Victorian Christmas cards and Thomas Hardy’s Wessex with a running concept concerning seasonal change". According to the music collectors' magazine Goldmine, it is "one of the key albums in the entire history of English Folk Rock".
An extended version with three additional tracks, Stroll On Revisited, was released in 1999 as a CD on Market Square Records.