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Mountain Firework Company - Creeping Vine - The Lonesome Losing Blues - MFC www.themountainfireworkcompany.com/
Haddo - Ampleforth - Borderlands - Haddo www.haddofolk.com/
Megson - The River Never Dies - in a box - EDJ Records www.megson.com/
David Wilcox - It'll Work On You - blaze - What Are Records? www.davidwilcox.com/
Carrie Newcomer - The Work Of Our Hands - A Permeable Life - Light Records www.carrienewcomer.com/
Pete Morton - Rambling Through Old England - The Frappin' and Ramblin' Pete Morton - Fellside Recordings www.petemorton.com/
Mountain Firework Company - The Lonesome Losing Blues - The Lonesome Losing Blues - MFC www.themountainfireworkcompany.com/
Haddo - Midama - Borderlands - Haddo www.haddofolk.com/
Megson - In A Box - in a box - EDJ Records www.megson.com/
David Wilcox - Single Candle - blaze - What Are Records? www.davidwilcox.com/
Carrie Newcomer - Visitation - A Permeable Life - Light Records www.carrienewcomer.com/
Pete Morton - A-Begging I Will Go Frap - The Frappin' and Ramblin' Pete Morton - Fellside Recordings www.petemorton.com/
Ben Bedford - The Ballad of Harlington Wood - What We Lost - Waterbug Records www.benbedford.com/
Mountain Firework Company: Third release from this excellent Brighton UK-based acoustic folk/alt country/alt bluegrass quintet based around the superb songwriting and excellent and broadly accented vocals of band member Gareth McGahan from Northern Ireland on guitar and banjo, Grant Allardyce drums and vocals, Simon C. Russell Double Bass and vocals, Mike Simmonds fiddle, mandolin, viola and vocals, and Ewan Wallace guitar and vocals; TLLB is a superb follow up to their critically acclaimed 2008 release Samurai;if you like Mumford And Sons you'll love these guys!
Haddo: first release of mainly tunes from this hugely talented husband and wife duo of Will, twice BBC Radio 2 Award nominee, award winning world class harmonica maestro and fabulous melodeon player, and Nicky Pound, Royal Academy of Music, London graduate specializing in Baroque Viola on fiddle; both with backgrounds in Earlsdon Morris and Chinewrde Morris not to mention appearances individually with Martin Simpson, Blair Dunlop and well-known Morris dancer Elton John! An excellent debut recording of traditional songs and tunes intermixed seamlessly with more contemporary and self penned tunes pointing to many pleasures to come from future recordings;
Megson: glorious 7th release from yet another husband and wife duo, Stu (vocals, guitar, mandolin) and classical/opera trained singer Debbie (vocals accordian) Hanna, nominated for Best Duo Award at the BBC Radio Two Folk Awards for 3 consecutive years, hailing from Teeside in North East of England and capturing the cyclical and rhythmic heartbeat of their native city with songs with universal identification and traditional lyrics and themes given a new tune here and there doubtlessly to their joyous improvement; with backgrounds in punk, rock and opera their well-earned ascendency into the UK folk world has probably surprised no one more than themselves!
David Wilcox: 18th album from this deservedly well established ace songsmith and tunesmith on which he explores not just the joys of Life and those he loves, but also those who frighten him, inspire him, or make him come unglued: the joy of cyclists with the road stretching out before them and underneath them, an oil-free world without the attendant doom and gloom, MLK, a prisoner assessing the walls of his prison, a handgun or an Austin Healy Sprite - sumptuous stuff and all grist for the mill for this master of word and melody!
Carrie Newcomer: 15th album from one of the most quietly generous performers on the planet who writes wonderous though never preachy songs about love, faith, hope, loss, and compassion for the oppressed and the fragile, while simultaneously recognizing these events in her own life, and taking action behind the scenes with various charities and organizations for the betterment of Mankind without the vulgar need for public acknowledgment that some Hollywood celebrities find so essential; a cultural ambassador for The American Center who has travelled extensively in India to perform with local musicians by night and community service groups by day; the gentleness of her Quaker background resounds in her recordings in the 'nothing wasted nothing lacking' structure of her compositions that are sublime and her purring voice that beckons irresistably... like a Siren;
Pete Morton: 13th album from folk-rapper and singer-songwriter Pete Morton, who has performed for Little Rock Folk Club on a number of occasions going back to 1990! For the occasion he has produced an album of exquisite compositions combining his unique observations on the World in general, and the UK in particular, with choruses and refrains selectively taken from hardy traditional material to form contemporary commentary both arrestingly new and yet comfortably familiar. Bolstering the album beyond the solely political, his admission into the ranks of fatherhood has also resulted in the creation of some of his most beautiful love songs to date. Sympathetic instrumental support includes, amongst others, Chris Parkinson (The House Band) on melodeon and Maggie Boyle (Tilston & Boyle) on flute, both of whom have also performed for LRFC - now that would be a trio to see on stage at LRFC!
Ben Bedford: 3rd album from this gifted singer-songwriter from Illinois who writes story-songs that unfold before your eyes like an epic from the glory years of Hollywood; literate, insightful, and with a gift for melody, Bedford ploughs through the oft visited fields of literature, the daily news, and World and American history to bring us people and events that reveal themselves in close proximity before us - the homeless, the Confederate soldier's wife during the Civil War, Amelia Earhart, John The Baptist, the poet Vachel Lindsay, Jack London, the murder of Emmett Till, and the 1973 Pine Ridge standoff are some of people and events that populate his songs described by Chicago Tribune writer Eric Zorn as "American Portrait Writing". Ben Bedford will be in concert with Little Rock Folk club on Sat Jun 7th 2014.
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