Seth Lakeman: Hearts and Minds | CD review

(Virgin/Relentless)Seth Lakeman has become a victim of his own success. He brought folk to a new audience and notched up a top 10 album with Poor Man's Heaven, thanks to his technique of mixing stomping, attacking ballads with impressive violin work and furious strumming backing. But now he seems to be running out of ideas. When he started out, he was remarkable for his storytelling, and the way he could write about tragedies from the West Country, or the English civil war, with an easygoing urg...

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