Katherine Priddy – ‘These Frightening Machines’ album review: An emotive folk odyssey
A fantastic offering…
Folk
The childhood trauma underlying John Martyn’s best work
“Underneath he suffered a lot of self-doubt”.
‘Isle of Innisfree’: The folk song about longing for Ireland written in Ireland
Immortalised in a John Ford film.
Manchester’s The Slow Country go full ‘slacker folk’ on ‘Firing Line’
Too many cooks making something delicious.
‘Lots of Little Soldiers’: How the ultimate anti-war song was born in Yorkshire
“I put them up on a table, and I marched them all around…”
The Woody Guthrie record inspired by one of America’s most infamous murder trials
A defense of immigrants caught in the American justice system.
The high school in Cleveland behind the most tragic folk song in history
The saddest song of all time?
The genre Rod Stewart liked more than rock and roll: “A folkie at heart”
“I thought I was a folk singer…”