In the early seventies most folk music was played on the traditional acoustic instruments. Farmer’s Union, together with another dutch folk band Fungus, decided to go electric…
Both Fungus and Farmer’s Union were orientated on english folkbands like Pentangle and Fairport Convention. Their songs were a mix of own compositions and traditional’s like the featured “Omie Wise”. Fungus asked Sido Martens to join them and they switched from english to dutch songs and became highly succesful with folksongs like “Kaapren varen“. Farmer’s Union split up and emerged in “Irolt” and solo careers for Pete Cox, Liedwien Schaper and later on also Sido Martens.
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