Four decades (1960-2000) of the very best acoustic folk music from the British Isles/ Presented in a long box with a 56 page booklet, this 4 CD set features 85 tracks covering 4 decades of the acoustic folk revival from Lonnie Donegan to Eliza Carthy. Many rare tracks are included and the booklet includes scores of photos and comprehensivenotes on every artist & track. Starting with Lonnie Donegan and the skiffle boom, this set then moves on to the re-discovery of traditional material by the likes of Ewan MacColl, The Fisher Family and The Ian Campbell Folk Group, newly composed songs by Bert Jansch, Billy Bragg and Ralph McTell, the Irish scene represented by The Dubliners, Dervish and Sweeney's Men, the instrumental virtuosos such as Dave Swarbrick, Davy Graham and Richard Thompson, outstanding singers like Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Sandy Denny and June Tabor, great groups like The Watersons, Patrick Street, The Battlefield Band along with today's young and exciting talent like Kate Rusby, Eliza Carthy and Shooglenifty and much much more.There have been many compilations of folk music before, this is the first truly comprehensive attempt to bring the history of acoustic music into one package and it succeeds triumphantly.