June Tabor: watery, not grave

June Tabor's new album draws inspiration from the sea. But dogs, cows and a margarine ad also featured when Pete Paphides met herPersistent woofing reverberates around the Welsh hillside farmland where June Tabor's house is situated. The closer you get to the front gate, the barking intensifies in a manner that suggests it would be idiocy to proceed any further. I telephone Tabor and she is audibly tickled by my reluctance to enter. If I wait there, she says, she'll come to collect me. The preci...

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