Editing Steeleye Span (section)

===Maddy 'leaves the bus'===
{{quote box|quote= "Steeleye Span is like a bus. It goes along, and people get on and get off it. Sometimes the bus goes along the route you want to go, and sometimes it turns off, so you get off."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maddyprior.co.uk/mpss.htm |title=Maddy Prior Official Site 2009 |publisher=Maddyprior.co.uk |access-date=9 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003184537/http://www.maddyprior.co.uk/mpss.htm |archive-date=3 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> |source= —Maddy Prior|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}

In 1995, almost all the past and present members of the band reunited for a concert to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the band (which was later released as ''The Journey'').  The only former members not present were founding members Terry Woods, Mark Williamson, and Chris Staines.

A by-product of this gig was founding vocalist Gay Woods rejoining the band full-time, partly because Prior was experiencing vocal problems and, for a while, Steeleye toured with two female singers and released the album ''[[Time (Steeleye Span album)|Time]]'' 1996, their first new studio album in seven years.<ref name="Larkin"/>

There were doubts over the future of the band when Prior announced her departure in 1997, but Steeleye continued in a more productive vein than for many years, with Woods as lead singer, releasing ''[[Horkstow Grange]]'' (1998), and then ''[[Bedlam Born]]'' (2000). Fans of Steeleye's "rock" element felt that ''Horkstow Grange'' was too quiet and folk-oriented, while fans of the band's "folk" element complained that ''Bedlam Born'' was too rock-heavy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://steeleye.freeservers.com/bbr.htm |title=Bedlam Born Reviews |publisher=Steeleye.freeservers.com |access-date=9 July 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711040123/http://steeleye.freeservers.com/bbr.htm |archive-date=11 July 2011  }}</ref> Woods received considerable criticism from fans, many of whom did not realise that she was one of the founding members and who compared her singing style unfavourably to Prior's.  There was also disagreement among the band about what material to perform; Woods advocated performing old favourites such as "All Around My Hat" and "Alison Gross", while Johnson favoured a set that emphasised their newer material.

Liam Genockey had also left the band in 1997 and, on these albums, the drum kit was manned by [[Dave Mattacks]], who was not an official member of the band.