1 Grub Street 2.48
2 South Island 6.41
3 A Long Time Between Sunsets 3.58
4 The Old Country 4.42
5 Shoulders of giants 3.48
6 Nightsoil 4.33
7 Sally Forth 4.30
8 The Brentford Lullaby 4.36
9 The Churn 4.04
10 Polska For a Lost Rubber Duck 5.21
The album half of the project. All original material, firmly in the tradition. Featuring guest spots from Jon Loomes and Rakoczy. Recorded on location by Talking Cat studios.
1. Brighton Camp
2. Goat of Dunsdale
3. Staffordshire Hornpipe
4. The New Land
5. Golden Slippers / Soldier’s Joy / Great North Run ’86
6. Trip to Kitchen / Upton Upon Severn Stick Dance
7. Lili’s
8. Blue Eyed Stranger
9. Portobello Hornpipe / Barham Down
10. Verticulos
I was honoured to be asked to perform on James Kerry's first solo album, alongside Danny Tonks and James Delarre. Recorded in Margate November 2022, and toured in 2023 to great success, it's a cracking good English instrumental album, and I do recommend you grab a copy.
1) Old Molly Oxford
2) Belt-Driven
3) Grimstock/Greesleeves Morris
4) Miss Firth's/Eglantine
5) Hellebore/Ice House Schottische
6) In Store Bakery
7) Lamaload/Bean setting
8) Staines Morris/Trip to Paris
9) Tom Tolley's Hornpipe/Pidge
10) Women and Wine/Old Age and Young
11) La Fanatique/Infinite Espresso
5 years after my first solo album; 'Interloper', this is the musical half of the Busk England project. It accompanies the book of the same name. It's the soundtrack to 18 months of busking around England, trying to get under the skin of a country I thought I knew. An exploration of acoustic and tone.
I was delighted to be able to continue my partnership with Marit Fält, the nordic mandola player. She contributes enormously to this, playing with power, invention, and precision.
The album was recorded 'live' in Danebridge Methodist chapel in early December 2019.
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I play on 'The Spade' on this lovely album. Get it here.
I'm delighted to have been asked to play fiddle on the track 'Golden Apples' on Daria's new album. If you hear fiddle anywhere else on the record, that would be that nice man, Phil Beer. :)
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My dance band's new double album, with CDs for listening and for dancing, although there's plenty of overlap.
Nearly two hours of English dance music.
I play on most of this, transatlantic singer-songwriter Zoe's fifth studio album. One of the two tracks I don't play on has since been covered by Joan Baez, on her Grammy award nominated album 'Whistle Down The Wind', which at 2 steps removed is likely to be as close as I get to a major music award. I'll take it.
I play on four tracks of this lovely, intelligent record.
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I play on most of this, the debut album from Elfin Bow.
With 5 stars in the Telegraph, this is our acclaimed if slightly overdue second studio album.
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I play on about half of Alice's lovely debut album. Buy it Here.
An outward facing, forward looking English music album.
The Sunday Express awarded it 5 stars, a place on their list of albums of the year, and said it was "the most beautiful instrumental playing of the year." The 2 star review on Amazon said it was "not as good as the Fureys." I'll let you decide.
Country Album by singer-songwriter, Lesley Curtis. I play on about half this album.
I guest on tracks 1 and 11. My boat's engine can be heard as the basis for the last track. More information here.
I play on the majority of this lovely record. You can buy it here.
Our attempt to crack the Christmas market, but without making anything needlessly cheesy. I feel we achieved the second target, at least.
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This is Pilgrims' Way's first full studio album, and it got us to the BBC Folk Awards, where we didn't win the Horizon award. Our journey to the Lowry centre in Salford was made by vintage oil tanker through the ice, a journey documented by Mike Askin in a film that has now had over 175,000 hits on youtube, easily eclipsing the modest success of the album.
My dance band's debut album. Mostly English dance music! Get it here, digital or physical.
Discontinued! I think I have 3 left but you'd have to make a really good offer. This is the EP that launched the Pilgrims' Way ship. We got 22 festival bookings off the back of this. I don't recall sleeping much during the summer of 2011, and we ended up in the list of the top ten hardest working acts in the UK for the year. It was a brief moment of fleeting success!
The second of my two records with Gren Bartley. Check out his more recent work here.
Gren has variously described me, on stage, as looking like 'All the Guess Who tiles at the same time', 'like someone made out of the leftover bits following the creation of a police identikit picture', and simply 'An egg in a cape.' We remain the best of friends.
Many millions of years ago, I spent five years touring with Gren Bartley. We made 2 records of which this is the first. We had no idea what we were doing. This album was once described as being like a best-of compilation where none of the tracks were good enough to make the cut.
I play on track 2 of this E.P. This session saw me make a trip to High Wycombe where I was ejected from a pub for drunkenly playing my fiddle too loud, following which I attempted to buy a baseball cap with the logo 'Mr Cod' from a chip shop employee. £40 was my final offer, and sadly, he refused to part with it. I have pretty much no other memories of this. The online information says the fiddle was played by 'Matt Kitching'. Probably just as well.
The EP that lunched a thousand chips.
Discontinued! Is this the worst record cover ever? I can probably do you a CDR of this if you ask really nicely. I'm actually still rather proud of this one.