Actually, as the avid trainspotters will already have conjectured, and loudly, it is the other way around, it is Chant No.1 (We Don't Ne...

Richard Thompson : The Poor Ditching Boy Los Lobos : Will The Wolf Survive? [ purchase Henry The Human Fly ] [ purchase How Will The Wol...

Writing this on a windy, wet and bleak day in Shropshire, exhausted from a ramble around the Wrekin. Exactly the mood to bring on an attack ...

Well, clearly I had to sneak this in as the shutters pull down, ashtrays empty and lights go out. Prompted by J.David's last post , his ...

It's funny, I had never really quite appreciated this song to have actually been about a battle or, indeed, warfare at all. It had alway...

Trying for a double whammy, associating both the song and the performer with the theme, doncha know! Well, no, not as it turns out. And, any...

Wreck of the Carlos Rey Mayday always seems to me the cipher for maritime disasters, despite it being anything but exclusive thereto. B...

King Crimson : The Court of the Crimson King [ purchase In The Court of the Crimson King ] Fairport Convention : Time Will Show The W...

As in they coulda/woulda/shoulda, Trees were the band Fairport Convention could have been if Dave Swarbrick hadn't been knocking ab...

The Left Banke : She May Call You Up Tonight  [ purchase ] When you think of the Left Banke, if you do, you probably think about “Wa...

Disclaimer: This post might well contain folk music. May, both the day and the month, is big in british folk, with any number of songs ...

In a year in which we lost David Bowie, Prince, Merle Haggard, two thirds of ELP, Paul Kantner, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Maurice W...

Fairport Convention are way more than a mere convention, being more an british institution, now a year shy of their half-century. Some...

Who? Shame on you, Kirkpatrick is the king of the English squeezebox, I would say single-handedly bringing back this instrument, or instr...

So, I'm just back from the 50th Cambridge Folk Festival. (Why, thank you, yes, it was marvelous. I may have mentioned I was going.......

Buy some early Fairport OK, there is no such band as Fairport Connections, but, challenged by Darius' post below, I thought it pert...