One of the most underrated contemporary folk singer/songwriters of the last decade, James Yorkston is a diamond for those in the know and continually delivers a veritable treasure trove of moving, roughly elegant, subtly mindblowing tunes. Folk Songs see’s James backed by The Big Eyes Family Players,to cover a selection of British and Irish 1960s folk revival songs to compliment his own catalogue of work. After a decade which has seen folk music morph into nu folk, mobile phone-ad folk, mortgagefolk, smoothie-folk and so on, Yorkston has reached back into the tradition of song and place and drawn a line in the sand. Featuring tunes by Anne Briggs, Peter Kennedy, the Collins Sisters, Nic Jones, Christy Moore, James Green and others this is a knockout of an album that breathes new life into folk with impressive results.
- Hills Of Greenmoor
- Just As The Tide Was Flowing
- Martinmas Time
- Mary Connaught & James O'donnell
- Thorneymoor Woods
- I Went To Visit The Roses
- Pandeirada De Entrimo
- Little Musgrave
- Rufford Park Poachers
- Sovay
- Low Down In The Broom
