English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2 LP with printed inner sleevenotes

A second snapshot of the English folk scene right now - from seasoned professionals to folk club singers, everyone is equal. Recorded on location, in front rooms and kitchens with two pairs of microphones, capturing immediate, intimate performances. For this second volume, we cast our net wider. From old Northumbrian kingdoms, through the Midlands, way over to the Welsh border, with an expanding set of experimental and traditional musicians interpreting the music that roots them, in their own unique ways. This is not the collecting of songs - rather, the documenting of a continuum that thrives, flourishes and persists in this country. This is each artist’s response to what From Here means to them, by way of identity or place, feeling, reflection or memory: “this is who I am, this is where I’m from”.

Heavyweight 180g vinyl.

Tracklisting:

1. gan tae the kye/peacock followed the hen NANCY KERR
2. the sandgate dandling song RACHEL UNTHANK
3. cottenham medley C JOYNES
4. the almsgiver RICHARD DAWSON
5. ladle/richmond CATH & PHIL TYLER
6. barbera allen MARY HUMPHREYS & ANAHATA
7. the king of rome JUNE TABOR
8. adieu sweet lovely nancy LAURA SMYTH & TED KEMP
9. two lovely black eyes COHEN BRAITHWAITE-KILCOYNE
10. a young woman’s tale GRACE PETRIE
11. nightingales BELINDA KEMPSTER
12. bonnie pit laddie/lads of alnwick KATHRYN TICKELL
13. so much to defend CHRIS WOOD
14. nancy clough SANDRA & NANCY KERR