What with all of the Balkan, Klezmer, folk-punk stuff around it’s easy to forget the utter joy that a great singer-songwriter can bring. Kris Drever is, undoubtedly, a really great singer-songwriter. From the Orkney Islands, a member of Lau, contributor to the gorgeous Spell Songs project, winner of countless folk awards, he is one of those hiddenContinue reading “Kris Drever – Folk House – November”
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The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake
Sometimes you need to re-evaluate. Sometimes you need to wonder whether those music snobs, the geeks, the nerds, are right. Sometimes you need to question the orthodoxies. Is it really true that The Byrds are better than The Beatles? Is it really true that Martin Carthy is the most important singer of the twentieth century?Continue reading “The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake”
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