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English and Appalachian folk songs

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Regular recordings of songs from the English and Appalachian traditions, accompanied on various instruments including concertina, dulcimer, autoharp, and all sorts of other things...

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Building a new repertoire

One of my greatest concerns when beginning to work seriously at the piano again was whether or not my hands would regain their former fitness. After all, the muscles used in playing the concertina and various other free reed instruments are very different from those used for diving through a Chopin Étude. With something as [...]...

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[ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:32:09 +0000 ]

The Elf Princess

This song’s a couple of years old now, and was played frequently by my former group. When I wrote it, it was arranged for acoustic guitar, fiddle and mandolin, but I thought it was high time for it to rise phoenix-like from the ashes and change shape somewhat. So, gone are the nice lilting rhythms [...]...

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:43:55 +0000 ]

Will Beckett�s March (reprise) on forthcoming compilation

A Place In Space, the new compilation from Invisiblegirl Records features Will Beckett’s March (reprise) from the album Mother’s Thinking Bath. The album will be an iTunes release; here’s a trailer featuring all the artists. ...

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[ Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:24:26 +0000 ]

Jack O� Diamonds

Here’s a song I was reminded of, in a roundabout way, by performing “On Ilkley Moor ‘Baht ‘At” to the tune of The House Of The Rising Sun last weekend at the Wolverley Summer Of Love festival. And, just like The House Of The Rising Sun, it’s a song in which a gambler laments his ruined [...]...

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[ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:21:32 +0000 ]

If You Could Read My Mind

The two singers who inspire me most are Johnny Cash and Scott Walker, and ever since hearing Cash’s version of Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind on his posthumously-released “American V: A Hundred Highways” album, it’s been simmering away at the back of my mind. It’s a gorgeous song of regret. I took [...]...

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[ Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:17:24 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Mon, 07 May 2007 16:02:21 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Mon, 07 May 2007 15:46:01 +0000 ]

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, [...]...

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[ Thu, 03 May 2007 22:11:01 +0000 ]

Download - Mercedes Benz

Here’s another song I’ve recorded just for the fun of it.It occurred to me that I seldom, if ever, bother to record songs that I sing without any instrumental accompaniment.So I thought it was about time I did.I never really understood why “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz” was [...]...

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[ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:33:07 +0000 ]

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