The Pentangle – Basket Of Light
Another early influence. I was raised in an English folk-music background but the tripped-out psych edge to The Pentangle was a big influence from late teens and even into early Lamb songs in my twenties (spot the Jacqui McShee-esque ad-lib in our first-album song, 'Gold'). The instrumentation and arrangements on this record are pretty out-there and, like Alice Coltrane, show a kind of freedom that inspired me; Danny Thompson's bass and John Renbourn's guitar in songs like 'Light Flight', 'Train Song' and 'Springtime Promises' dancing around one another in a total celebration of late '60s liberation.