THE HARVEST YEARS

This is essentially the first four Barclay James Harvest albums recorded for the Harvest label, minus a few tracks, but plus some rarer tracks in their place. Some of those rare tracks had already appeared on the "Early morning onwards" from the 1970s, while others have since been included as bonus tracks on the remastered re-releases of the four Harvest albums.

It's always a subjective process deciding which tracks to omit from compilations, and in this case those omissions seem somehow more apparent given the amount of material from each album which has been included. The first album for example sees the melodic "Mother dear" and the wonderful "The sun will never shine" omitted, but the overlong "Dark now my sky" included. Of the non-album tracks, the excellent single "The joker" is well worth seeking out, but most of the others are really more of purely historical interest.

I suspect in view of the expanded re-releases of the first four albums, this particular set is now deleted, but if you do come across it, it is worthy of investigation.

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