Cheltenham Folk Festival returns once again in February 2014 with a weekend long celebration of folk music and song: Blowzabella, O’Hooley & Tidow, Chris Wood, Blazin’ Fiddles & many more!
Chris Wood is set to head out on an extensive Solo tour of the UK. We also find out which track from his album ‘None the Wiser’ was the most popular from our earlier album preview.
‘I Am’ is the penultimate from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’, Written by John Clare as he lived out his days in Northampton asylum. Listen here.
Track Number 7 from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘Tally of Salt’ and the first of two collaborations on this CD with the professional story teller Hugh Lupton. Listen to it here.
Track Number six from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘Thou Shalt’. Chris is pulling no punches at all here with the album’s main sermon, dressed as it is in the biblical terminology of “thou shalt not” and “thou shalt”.
The Little Carpenter is almost the fulcrum of Chris Wood’s latest album as we reach and tip beyond the half way point of the nine track album. As the centre piece it’s also perhaps appropriately the only traditional song on the album. Listen to it here.
Track Number four from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘A Whole Life Lived’ another of Chris’ fables that will speak very well for itself. It seems that the wisdom of age is that wisdom is still to be had. Listen to it now.
Week three and track three form Chris Wood and The Sweetness Game throws yet more conventions to the wind and asks whether love and politics are happy bedfellows.
In week two of our preview of Chris Wood’s new album ‘None the Wiser’ we preview the track ‘Jerusalem’, one that initially appears as the first of the album’s real surprises and Chris talks about getting no wiser.
Chris Wood, Jim Moray and Jackie Oates will be among the major names from English folk music performing at English Folk Expo – to be held the weekend before the world music industry conference Womex 2013.
The first track from the album and the title track sets up the album None The Wiser perfectly. In typical style the song hits the bulls-eye of some big targets, listen to it now.
Folk Radio UK is delighted to have been chosen as the partner for the launch of the new Chris Wood album, None The Wiser. Chris will be making a track a week available to listen to via our website.
Read our interview with Simon Emmerson of the Imagined Village in which he discusses their latest release ‘Bending the Dark’, he talks about some of the dificulties faced in making the album alongside some of the more exhilarating.
Fran Smith writes like she means it: refreshingly uncompromising, with an honesty that is both brutal and beautiful. Intrigued by her background Mike Wilson managed to interview Fran and uncover some history and influences.
The BBC is to feature six new one-hour Radio Ballads in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. The series will feature songs from Jez Lowe, Chris Wood, Martin Simpson, Julie Matthews and Steve Tilston.
