Archive for May, 2007
Debut album now available!
The debut album, on Swainsthorpe Records, is now available to buy. Go to the “Buy CDs” page to hear samples and order your copy now!
Pink Floyd recordings with Steve Bradley
This weekend (18th-20th of May) saw yet another fabulous Swaledale Squeeze, organised as ever by Jane Edwards. It’s a really special weekend, with concertina players from all over the country - and beyond - descending on a youth hostel in Yorkshire to make music together. The evening sessions carry on well into the night, [...]
I Can’t Find Brummagem - on internet radio!
This week’s Brumcast podcast includes a new recording of my version of “I Can’t Find Brummagem” which I recorded recently - it’s played on acoustic guitars, acoustic bass, and mandolin.
It’s not available anywhere else yet, so visit their MySpace and get the podcast feed here: http://www.myspace.com/brumcastbirmingham
The words and a bit of blurb about the song [...]The Cruel Mother - version 2
And so to another version of The Cruel Mother, this time collected from Elizabeth Wharton, a gypsy, in Shropshire, by C.S. Burne, on the 13th of July, 1885. This is again taken from the “Songs of the Midlands” book edited by Roy Palmer.
Palmer offers the following notes:
The clerk in the ballad was no doubt a [...]The Cruel Mother - version 1
I thought it might be an interesting exercise to record several completely disparate versions of the same song, and as I played a version of “The Cruel Mother” at the Traditional Song Session at the Midland Arts Centre last Thursday, May 3rd, I decided to go for that one.
It’s an unpleasant little tale, that’s for [...]Website = podcast
Thanks to Dan (again) this site is now equipped to be a handy podcast without any work whatsoever on my part. Which is always nice. If you use iTunes or any other podcast-downloady software, then if you subscribe to this site’s RSS feed it will automatically suss out that it’s a podcast, and you’ll be [...]
Download - Head For The Country
Who said folk songs had to be quiet, anyway?
This is a song I wrote a couple of years ago, which, now that the Telecaster has been dusted off, I thought I’d revisit with guitars turned up to 11. I normally play this song on concertina, but this version is just electric guitars, a drum loop, [...]Syndication - subscribing to this site
In an attempt to drag myself kicking and screaming into the modern technological age, thanks to Dan, this site is now set up with a FeedBurner RSS feed. If you’ve got an RSS reader like RSSBandit, FeedDemon or the various web-based readers, you can subscribe to updates and receive them whenever I post something on [...]