FOUR BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST ORIGINALS

By 1996, EMI must have grown tired of devising new combinations of BJH material recorded for the Harvest label back in the early 1970s. Only four albums were recorded and they had been plundered in just about every way possible. The ultimate 'Best Of' would be to throw the whole lot together in a single box. That's what you get here - a box containing all four original albums on separate CDs in mini facsimiles of the original covers at a bargain price. This was an excellent way of obtaining them, and for anyone interested in BJH's earliest albums was an essential buy, bearing in mind the original albums had never been on general release in the CD format at that time. Since those albums have now been re-issued as re-mastered CDs with extensive bonus material, this collection has receded in importance and desirability. Nice packaging though, and the music is mostly wonderful!