Long term Londoner and Alternative Country godfather Sid Griffin’s twenty-first century bluegrass blueprint is a nostalgic negotiation with his native Kentucky’s indigenous music.
Producer John Wood brokered Fairport Convention’s sixties deals with British folk, and now he carves common ground between Carla Frey’s fleet Western Swing fiddle, Griffin’s mandolin, and his Scottish lieutenant Neil Robert Herd’s Celtic flavoured songwriting contributions.
Bowie’s Heroes breathes anew as a stately banjo-driven cover, and the whirling reel Betsey Trotwood fairly ignites, but a sitar spangled Paint It, Black smacks of novelty.
The Coal Porters walk a fine line with bold barefacedness.
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World Without End, Twitter
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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