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Notes & Queries: Are Hawkwind the best least-successful chart band ever?

4174 days ago
Guardian Music — Notes & Queries is a series where readers answer other readers' questions, on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts. Add your question or answer belowHawkwind had only one hit single, in 1972, but are still go... more info
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Ian Campbell

4174 days ago
Guardian Music — Leading singer in the British folk revivalIan Campbell, who has died from cancer aged 79, was a leading singer in the British folk revival of the 1960s, and one of only a few folk artists to have had a song in the singles charts. His group's recordin... more info
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Sam Lee: 'There is a difference in the songs Gypsies sing'

4206 days ago
Guardian Music — Sam Lee didn't want to find out about folk music from archives. Instead he has trawled traveller sites, learning from families who have passed these songs down the generationsFreda Black leans forward in her armchair, arches back her shoulders and si... more info
Martin Carthy Fairport Convention

Blair Dunlop: Blight & Blossom – review

4229 days ago
Guardian Music — (Rooksmere Records)The British folk scene has produced a series of impressive dynasties, and this looks like the start of yet another. Blair Dunlop is the 20-year-old son of Ashley Hutchings, famed for his role as co-founder of Fairport Convention, a... more info
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New band of the day – Goat (No 1,361)

4235 days ago
Guardian Music — These Swedish space cadets sound like a Womad wig-out involving Faust, Funkadelic, Fairport Convention and Fela KutiHometown: Korpolombolo, Sweden.The lineup: Christian Johansson and a cast of seven.The background: Goat may not be the G.O.A.T., but t... more info
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Martha Redbone Roots Project: The Garden of Love - Songs of William Blake

4236 days ago
Here Comes The Flood — photo: Fabrice Trombert Singer Martha Redbone had a vision: set the poems of William Blake (1757-1827) to music. Redbone grew up on Appalachian folk music and gospel, and both genres ended up om what would become the Martha Redbone Roots Project. Th... more info
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New band of the day – Hundred Waters (No 1,352)

4246 days ago
Guardian Music — This Florida five-piece's enchanting and intricate folktronica will appeal to fans of Four Tet and FairportReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Gainesville, Florida.The lineup: Nicole Miglis (keyboard, vocals, flute, percussion), Sam Moss (vocals,... more info
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Readers recommend: songs about clothes – results

4306 days ago
Guardian Music — From handbags and gladrags to white socks and flip flops, here are your sartorial soundsLast week's call for songs about clothes prompted some winning styles, after a lot of rummaging around for forgotten rags and prized combos.Clothes are of course ... more info
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Sleeve notes: Sixty years of No 1 singles

4354 days ago
Guardian Music — Catch up on the last seven days in the world of musicSixty years of No 1 singlesTo celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UK singles charts, Guardian writers and celebrities have picked their favourite tracks that made it to the coveted No 1 slot. Tak... more info
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Old music: Fairport Convention – Si Tu Dois Partir

4355 days ago
Guardian Music — Faiport Conventions' first, light-hearted hit offered few clues that they would reinvent English folk musicI first heard this song on Tony Blackburn's Radio 1 show, in the days when it was just beginning to dawn on me that there was music out there b... more info
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