From BBC Radio 1 John Peel Sessions. Studio: Maida Vale 4. Nic Jones, acoustic guitar, vocals
The Songs:
1. Billy Don’t You Weep For Me
2. My Father Knew The Plough
3. Ten Thousand Miles
4. Annachie Gordon
Nic Jones
Nic Jones – Ten Thosand Miles
From Nic Jones 1977Â album The Noah’s Ark Trap
BBC Radio 4 – In Search of Nic Jones
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Nic Jones has been hailed as the greatest talent the British folk scene has ever produced. An expert, idiosyncratic guitarist and songwriter, his 1980 album Penguin Eggs is way a high-water mark for British folk music. And it proved to be the last record Nic Jones would ever make.
On the way home from a folk club booking in 1982, Nic’s car crashed head-on into a fully loaded lorry. His guitar was the one thing that remained unbroken in the crash. In the years that followed the prospect of Nic Jones performing on stage again seems very remote indeed.