A CURIOUS MIX OF BRITISH FOLK MUSIC AND AMERICAN POLITICS
A lost folk “masterpiece”, recorded by a brother and sister duo from Hull, has entered the charts 45 years after its initial release. “I knew Lal wrote son
Just 1,000 copies of Bright Phoebus by Lal and Mike Waterson, a stark album of “folk noir” tales encompassing pagan child slaughter and nuclear apocalypse, were pressed in 1972 [ . . . ] More at: Lost ‘folk noir’ masterpiece Bright Phoebus from Waterson siblings is a chart hit 45 years on – The i newspaper online iNews
When writing an in-depth review of an important new album, it is normal to start somewhere near the beginning, to pick a measured path through the record, to assess it as the sum of its chronological parts and to talk about those individual parts in some semblance of order. It is certainly not customary to begin with the very last words of the final track. But perhaps it should be. It is, after all, the moment the whole album has been working towards, the focal point of months, often years of work on the part of songwriters and performers.
Eliza Carthy first assembled the Wayward Band in 2013 in order to explore and celebrate her long and varied career in folk music; ‘the last truly underground music scene’.To do this Eliza put together a team of hugely talented people from across the UK, and set out on the road to promote her ‘Best Of’ compilation, Wayward Daughter (Topic Records), which coincided with a biography of the same name.Since then the band has become a festival favourite, and Eliza has been awarded the MBE for services to folk music.
Source: Folk legend Eliza begins a new UK tour with Bury St Edmunds show – Newmarket Journal