With thanks to Georgiansilver, who posted this quite beautiful - visually as well as musically - clip at Mudcat. Salut! Live wishes all readers a happy or, as I put it in a gloomy piece due to be published by... Read more →
For the first time since I began nominating my folk CD/s of the year, an entirely subjective exercise though I have been lucky enough to have platforms for my views for 20 years or more, I found myself stumped. There... Read more →
Image: Linda Fitzgerald-Moore One of the most memorable live experiences I have ever known came at the Cropredy festival in 2007, when the sublime Chris While took Sandy Denny's place in what was otherwise the Fairport Convention line-up that recorded... Read more →
No sooner had I voted in the BBC Folk Awards for Bellowhead's Fakenham Fair as my traditional track of the year, and Eliza Carthy's Mr Magnifico in the contemporary category, than along comes something that knocks spots off both of... Read more →
Some people are altogether too clever. Others just paid attention at school. Those paying attention at Salut! Live will have seen my reference to the delicious Sandy Denny/Fotheringay anecdote from the Manchester gig where, in response to repeated demands Banks... Read more →
