‘The Ballad of Stalin’: the British folk singer who wrote for the Communist Party
An essential figure…
Folk
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.
‘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.