Two sightly overlooked albums: Bedlam Born (2000), sacrilegiously not featuring Maddy Prior. This has some huge songs. Tim Harries' John of Ditchford could nestle quite happily on a Led Zepplin album & Bob Johnson, on his swan song - not counting the Present re-recordings - is at his imperious best. Four years later, Maddy's back in the fold, Ken Nicol has come in for B.J. & the band made They Called Her Babylon, another monster. The title track is worth the money on its own & the rest of the album is not far behind.
They'd both make my Steeleye top five.
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