‘I’m Shipping Up to Boston’: How Woody Guthrie gave the world a punk anthem
Simpe yet effective.
Folk
Bonnie Kemplay offers a pastoral respite from life’s hectic pace on ‘Big Machine’
“I live in a big machine / Feels like forever in a dream.”
‘The Ballad of Stalin’: the British folk singer who wrote for the Communist Party
An essential figure…
Katherine Priddy – ‘These Frightening Machines’ album review: An emotive folk odyssey
A fantastic offering…
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.