Chris Wood | Folk review

Union Chapel, LondonChris Wood is an intriguing blend of the witty and easy-going, and the quietly passionate, angry and emotional. He is also the finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the British folk scene since Richard Thompson, but he seems bemused by his own success. "Some of my stuff is a bit dense, but I'm glad you like it‚" he announced at the end of a performance in which he had covered the nature of Englishness, political despair, evolution, alienation a...

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