Stand up, the debut album from Nathan Ball, will thrill those who love good songwriting. It’s a slow burn, and slightly sombre at times, but deeply satisfying and filled with depths of humanity.
The ragged quintet comprised of fiddler Alastair Caplin, singer-songwriters Scott Cook, Nathan Ball and Jez Hellard and double bass maestro Nye Parsons have turned the domestic gig into something of an artform as they demonstrate on ‘Live at the Ley’.