Jon Boden, the Unthanks and others: Oak Ash Thorn - review

(Folk Police Recordings)It's been 10 years since the death of singer and songwriter Peter Bellamy, but he's rightly back in fashion, as shown by this new treatment of his settings for Rudyard Kipling songs, featuring a Who's Who of the new British folk scene. Bellamy's original Oak, Ash and Thorn album was a rousing, sparse affair in which he performed many of the songs unaccompanied or with vocal backing from Heather Wood and Royston Wood, his colleagues in the Young Tradition. This new set is ...

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