First sight: Sparrow and the Workshop

Who are they?A Glasgow-based trio who have already been compared to Fleet Foxes, Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, and, er, both Detroit and Seattle rock. We say: a band who make timeless, slightly otherworldly country-folk, with a few odd twists.Such as being fronted by a Sparrow?A Dead Sparrow, actually. That was the name Chicago-born singer Jill O'Sullivan's sang under solo, before hooking up with Welshman Nick Packer (bass, guitar and stringed instrume...

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