Andrew Curry writes: The folk singer Wizz Jones has died, two days after his 86th birthday, after a short period of illness. His career in folk music stretched over more than six decades. His son Simeon announced the news on... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: Winter Song was on Lindisfarne’s first LP, Nicely Out of Tune, along with Lady Eleanor and We Can Swing Together. It was a low-key beginning for the band, but the huge success of Fog on the Tyne... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: Ralph McTell turns 80 today, and it strikes me that for someone who took a while to decide to become a full-time musician, he has a decent claim to being the most successful English folk musician of... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: We noticed a while back that the guitarist and singer Wizz Jones had celebrated his 85th birthday this year, and we mentioned it on our Facebook group. But we realised that we’d never written about him properly... Read more →
