February 1st, 2019 sees the return of Yorkshire musician Serious Sam Barrett with a brand new solo album, his first since 2016’s Sometimes You’ve Got To Lose. Recorded at The Stationhouse in Leeds by producer/engineer James Atkinson, Where The White Roses Grow finds Sam expanding on his musical palette beyond his regular acoustic 12-string to several banjo tunes. Alongside his original songs are a handful of traditional numbers including Geordie song ‘Waters Of Tyne’, learned from the Dransfields’ rendition, ‘Robin Hood And The 15 Forresters’, one of the Child ballads (139), a song he learned through his folk-loving parents…and ‘Holmfirth Anthem’, learned from the recording by The Watersons.
Watch his video for the title track Where The White Roses Grow below (also our Song of the Day) on which he shared the following:
“I was lucky enough to grow up in the beautiful village of Addingham in the Yorkshire dales. I remember when I was a child my Mum would send me into the village with a bit of money to buy some eggs. I used to wander around the village and then come home with no money and no eggs and no idea what I had been doing. There was a true magic in wandering around being lost in your thoughts in a dales village in the 1980s.”
Photo Credit: Ricky Adam