To mark Cam Penner’s return to the UK this November we have a UK video premiere for Broke Down which was recorded in and around his homemade sound machine, located in the forest and mountains of his home in B.C.
Cam Penner & Jon Wood bring Sex & Politics to the Tron Theatre for Celtic Connections and transport the audience to the hand-built studio shack in the woods where the album was crafted.
Recorded over the space of ten days in Penner’s hand built wooden shack in the back of beyond Sex & Politics is a rough hewn blast of folk, blues, Gospel and vintage rock’n’roll tempered with layers of electronic wizardry provided by sidekick Jon Wood.
Our Song of the Day is a live recording from Cam Penner made back in 2012. He shares the true story behind the song which involves a 85 Ford Getaway Van and a state trooper.
Cam Penner’s latest album ‘To Build a Fire’ is at its heart a good old-fashioned country rock album. It manages to avoid the clichés of the genre with some excellent song writing, an honest, wide-eyed worldview and some very genuine emotional clout.
Watch Cam Penner’s new video for ‘To Build a Fire’. “I’ve got to know that you’ll make it through the night, make it through the day, make it out alive, that you’ll always have water running down the mountain side, always have shelter and know to build a fire.”
A new arrival on Folk Radio UK is artist, Cam Penner with his third album, Trouble and Mercy which is released this week. I’ve been looking forward to reviewing this album ever since I first heard it.
