Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' | Interview

Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts finds catharsis in the darkest songs, he tells Tim AdamsAlasdair Roberts is an angular, tentative presence, thin as twigs and full of caveats and quiet amusement, but the cerebral star of what he would never call "vogueish nu-folk" music is sure about one thing: "I am not interested in this individualistic one-man-singing-of-his-pain-with-his-acoustic-guitar bullshit. I never listen to singer-songwriters. I'd rather listen to Bach."Given that Roberts often...

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