james varda

James Varda’s ‘ Chance and Time’ is to be reissued on vinyl – We look back at his influences, his journey from folk club to TV, his disappearance from the music scene and his escape to the country, where he crafted his most rewarding album.

James Varda, one of the most distinctive singer songwriters of his generation, has died. I interviewed James back in January and we spoke about his career and ‘Chance and Time’, widely hailed as his best ever album on which he ‘turned his songwriting talent to chronicling the experience of confronting illness and death, and in doing so, created a unique language and music of love and pain, family, landscape and …

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We talk to James Varda about his latest album ‘Chance and Time’, regarded by many as his best work to date. We look back at his career alongside his diverse influences that have helped shape his music.

Our Song of the Day comes from James Varda with Pass it On, a love song like no other which has a strong message for us all to learn from.

Whilst Varda remains as much an enigma as he did with his 1989 debut, preferring the music to provide his biography this is very much an album to cherish.