About This Song
About "General Taylor (Stuart Henry Radio Session 4/2/71)" by Steeleye Span
This radio session version of 'General Taylor' is a raw, urgent shanty. The title's namesake is a distant, demanding figure, and Steeleye Span's performance is all forward motion—fiddles sawing, voices calling. It's a working song stripped of polish, capturing the grit of the 1971 folk revival.
