Just when I thought I had one solution to the failure of my attempts to showcase Ed Pickford's noble anthem in appreciations of ordinary people, The Workers’ Song, as sung by the Pitmen Poets, a much better one popped along.... Read more →
I do not always nominate a best-of- year album or other piece of work. This year, I feel bound to do so. I have heard nothing better all year than the Pitmen Poets' rousing and timely rendering of one of... Read more →
SCROLL DOWN FOR THE BBC FOLK AWARDS Well, you've had the substance of the Salut! Live interviews with Ed Pickford. He has turned out, much as expected, to be an absorbing, intelligent and thought-provoking subject and I am grateful for... Read more →
So we already know that Ed Pickford has a passion for songwriting, and that this passion somehow grew stronger still after he learnt that he had a life-threatening disease. When he complained to me that painting and decorating chores were... Read more →
Farewell Durham, Yorkshire too Nottingham the same to you Scotland, South Wales say "Adieu" Farewell Johnny Miner With the four-line chorus quoted above, and the verses either side of it, Ed Pickford summed up in the starkest terms the impact... Read more →
