Johnny Flynn:
A Larum

By: Dennis Cook Part of a neo-traditionalist revival currently sweeping the pubs and countryside in the United Kingdom, Johnny Flynn does what Fairport Convention, Pentangle and others accomplished in the late '60s: make the antique relevant to modern ears. There's the salt air sweep of sea shanties and highwaymen ballads within A Larum (Lost Highway) but transposed to contemporary angst, homelessness, non-specific discontent and other thoroughly modern maladies (and ancient ones like the he...

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