Scoundrelly Reynardine incarnated himself ... as the short-lived Mr Fox, a folk-rock group founded by husband-and-wife team Bob and Carole Pegg, who wrote all their own material and occupied a unique stronghold between folk music’s bread-and-butter ‘source musicians’ and the electrified roots of Steeleye Span. Bob and Carole modelled the group's instrumental palette on the combinations of strings, woodwinds and wind organs found in the village harvest-home and church bands of the Yorkshire Dales, where Bob had conducted folklore research and field recordings in the mid-1960s. Mr Fox’s Gothic guignol concentrated the energy of Dalesmen’s country dances and the spookiness of British lore within convincing reproductions of antique song. Their name was provided directly by Bert Lloyd, visiting the folk club run by the Peggs at The Royal Sovereign, Kirkstall, who unforgettably recited a yarn from Halliwell’s book of popular Victorian rhymes and nursery tales, featuring a serial-killing ‘Mr Fox’ .(Rob Young, Electric Eden: Discovering Britain's Visionary Music p. 421) Interesting. File under: Odd Folkies.
Discography: 1970 Mr. Fox 1971 The Gipsy
In the music library: The All New Electric Muse: The Gay Goshawk Anthems In Eden: Mr. Fox
Links: Wikipedia AllMusic Discogs The Future is Past Mr Fox and Mendle