Next stop on our virtual journey is Nottingham, where fiddler Sam Sweeney was born. He has played in a number of bands and collaborations including Kerfuffle and Bellowhead. He recently released a solo album called Unearth Repeat, from which this tune is taken: Highway to Warrington.
Singer/songwriter Grace Petrie from Leicester is the rare modern phenomenum of an old school protest singer. Here are a couple of songs from her 2018 album Queer As Folk starting with A Young Woman's Tale:
and Farewell to Welfare:
Now for something completely different from the West Midlands, some Blues Rock. Joanne Shaw Taylor was born in Wednesbury near Birmingham and continues in the finest tradition of British Blues Rock. She has since moved to Detroit, and there are similarities between her and Detroit born Suzie Quatro, both confidently fronting a band with her guitar and often clad in leather. She counts Joe Bonnamassa , Stevie Wonder and Annie Lennox amongst her fans. This is a track from her latest album Reckless Heart called In the Mood:
Folk band Blowzabella were actually founded in London, but they do have a nice Staffordshire song in their repertoire, The Uttoxeter Souling Song, which features on their 2018 album Two Step:
Lucy Ward from Derby is a singer/songwriter performing with a voice described as expressive and powerful traditional folk songs as well as her own material. She plays guitar, ukulele and concertina. This is her 2012 debut single For The Dead Men, another protest song:
Here's an a capello song about a woman's solution to deal with her drunk abusive husband from her much acclaimed 2011 album Adelphi Has to Fly, A Stitch in Time:
Vocal folk trio Coope Hayes & Simpson describe themselves as from Derbyshire and South Yorkshire and have been together since the early 1990's. Here's a song that is of particular relevance to these strange times we are living in at the moment, Keep Your Distance, from their 2010 album, As If:
Contemporary folk singer Bella Hardy is from Edale in Derbyshire's Dark Peak. She performs both traditional material as well as her own songs and has won the 2014 BBC Folk Musician of the Year award. In 2012 she released an album of songs from her home region, The Dark Peak and the White. This is a song from that album, The Drunken Butcher of Tideswell:
That's it for today from the English Midlands. As usual you can follow my virtual journey on my Tripline map. Next stop Manchester. I'll finish with a picture of an autumnmorning in Derbyshire
and Farewell to Welfare:
Now for something completely different from the West Midlands, some Blues Rock. Joanne Shaw Taylor was born in Wednesbury near Birmingham and continues in the finest tradition of British Blues Rock. She has since moved to Detroit, and there are similarities between her and Detroit born Suzie Quatro, both confidently fronting a band with her guitar and often clad in leather. She counts Joe Bonnamassa , Stevie Wonder and Annie Lennox amongst her fans. This is a track from her latest album Reckless Heart called In the Mood:
Folk band Blowzabella were actually founded in London, but they do have a nice Staffordshire song in their repertoire, The Uttoxeter Souling Song, which features on their 2018 album Two Step:
Lucy Ward from Derby is a singer/songwriter performing with a voice described as expressive and powerful traditional folk songs as well as her own material. She plays guitar, ukulele and concertina. This is her 2012 debut single For The Dead Men, another protest song:
Here's an a capello song about a woman's solution to deal with her drunk abusive husband from her much acclaimed 2011 album Adelphi Has to Fly, A Stitch in Time:
Vocal folk trio Coope Hayes & Simpson describe themselves as from Derbyshire and South Yorkshire and have been together since the early 1990's. Here's a song that is of particular relevance to these strange times we are living in at the moment, Keep Your Distance, from their 2010 album, As If:
Contemporary folk singer Bella Hardy is from Edale in Derbyshire's Dark Peak. She performs both traditional material as well as her own songs and has won the 2014 BBC Folk Musician of the Year award. In 2012 she released an album of songs from her home region, The Dark Peak and the White. This is a song from that album, The Drunken Butcher of Tideswell:
That's it for today from the English Midlands. As usual you can follow my virtual journey on my Tripline map. Next stop Manchester. I'll finish with a picture of an autumnmorning in Derbyshire
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