The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends: Folk Songs II – review

(Static Caravan)Three years ago, the Scottish singer James Yorkston recorded the album Folk Songs, making use of decidedly untraditional settings provided by Sheffield-based experimental instrumentalists The Big Eyes Family Players and their leader James Green. Now the experiment is revisited, this time as a Big Eyes album, with even more adventurous, often sprawling arrangements, and now involving a series of other singers and collaborators. Green is a multi-instrumentalist, playing anything f...

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