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3 brand new releases... and the 199th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo...
Merry Hell - Loving The Skin You're In - Head Full Of Magic Shoes Full Of Rain - Mrs. Casey Records www.merryhell.co.uk/
Boo Hewerdine - Amazing Robot - Amazing Robot (single) - Reveal Records www.boohewerdine.net/
Chris Wood - None The Wiser - None The Wiser - RUF Records www.chriswoodmusic.co.uk/
June Tabor & Oysterband - Bonny Bunch Of Roses - ragged kingdom - Topic Records www.oysterband.co.uk/
The Bursledon Village Band - Waterloo Dance~Isle Of France - (VA) Hampshire Dance Tunes Pyle 1822 - Wild Goose Records www.bursledonvillageband.com
Mary Humphreys & Anahata - Elwina Of Waterloo - Fenlandia - Wild Goose Recordings www.maryanahata.co.uk/
Merry Hell w. Dave Swarbrick - Let's Not Have A Morning After(Until We've Had A Night Before) - Head Full Of Magic Shoes Full Of Rain - Mrs. Casey Records
Boo Hewerdine - Drinking Alone - Amazing Robot (single) - Reveal Records
Chris Wood - The Wolfless Years - None The Wiser - RUF Records
Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts - Plains Of Waterloo - Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts - Pure Records www.katerusby.com www.kathrynrobertsandseanlakeman.com/
Feast Of Fiddles - Swaggering Boney - Rise Above It - Feast Of Fiddles www.feastoffiddles.co.uk/
Pete Coe and Alice Jones - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses-O - The Search For Five Finger Frank - Backshift Music www.backshift.dmon.co.uk/
Mawkin-Causley - Drummer Boy For Waterloo - The Awkward Recruit - Navigator Records www.jimcausley.com/ www.mawkin.co.uk/
Merry Hell:the traditionally difficult 2nd release from this 8 piece folk-rock band from NW England, many of whom were previously in The Tansads,
with songs coming from the various Kettles - Andrew, Bob, John and Virginia, who get things steaming from the opening track - a beautiful rocking anthem to
egalitarianism and rapidly proceed from there to the boil... zesty joyful muscular music played with enjoyment that will especially appeal to Oysterband fans;
Boo Hewerdine:- brand new single from highly productive and accomplished English singer-songwriter, producer, and movie soundtrack composer, previously the voice and
creative force behind 1980s cult-favorite The Bible, well known for collaborations with US singer-songwriter Darden Smith, Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader, and
more recently with US but now Cambridge, UK resident Brooks Williams;
Chris Wood: 5th solo album from this English singer-songwriter and former choirboy, whose resume reads like a folk fan's dream wish list, and whose song-writing
brilliantly dispels any Ye Olde Merrie Englande illusions in title track, nominated for a BBC R2 Folk Song Of The Year Award, followed immediately thereafter by
William Blake's anthemic poem "Jerusalem" fitted out with a new and minor keyed melody which invites the listener to contemplate Blake's beautiful vision of paradise
on Earth in England and the modern reality of intergenerational unemployment, political corruption, poverty, the coarsening of society and an absence of anyone
capable of leading the nation back to sanity. Sound familiar? With simple double bass and keyboards and an electric guitar in attendance, other subjects covered
include a brilliant look at aging in "A Whole Life Lived" and "Thou Shalt" and the power of relationships both physical and spiritual amidst trying times in "The
Sweetness Game" and "I Am".
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