thirty pounds of bone

‘whence, the’ is the latest offering from Thirty Pounds of Bone – Experimental but equally delicate and intimate, folk with a cosmic sheen and a human heart, from whence it stems.

Thirty Pounds of Bone and Philip Reeder board Girl Emily, a 1974 fishing boat to perform nine new arrangements of traditional fishing/maritime songs, as the skipper and his mate go about their business of fishing.

The Taxidermist is the fourth full-length album from Thirty Pounds of Bone, the nom de plume of Shetland born multi-instrumentalist Johny Lamb. It marks a departure from its predecessor in being an entirely one-man show with Lamb playing everything, recorded live (with no overdubs or edits) in a cellar in West Cornwall.

Our latest mix features a number of new releases from artists such as Inge Thomson, Jackie Oates, Men Daimler, Robin Adams, Ryley Walker, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman and many more. Just sit back and enjoy our special mix – Lost in Transmission iii

Another great mix to start your weekend – Pulco, The Kitchen Cynics, Thirty Pounds of Bone & some great Welsh acts in the form of Cate Le Bon, Y Niwl & Trwbador.

We continue our look back at the Best Albums of 2013 including: Gavin Davenport, Bella Hardy, eagleowl, Thirty Pounds of Bone, Arborea and many more.

EPISODE 21 of Mix Tape Radio is here with 18 tunes to help you deal with all this hot weather. Or maybe deal with all this rainy weather.

This weeks Simple Folk Radio is presented by Dillon, with studio guest Mary Hampton. Featuring in session Thirty Pounds of Bone. Aired to mark the release of his critically acclaimed album ‘I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where’.

Thirty Pounds of Bone is to release a new album in May titled: I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where. It features Darren Hayman (Hefner), Laurence Collyer (Diamond Family Archive) and more.

Simple Folk Radio will feature a re-run of the James Yorkston show of May 2012 which features James in session, an exclusive remix by The Pictich Trail & co-presented with Thirty Pounds Of Bone.

A very special show from Simple Folk Radio this week featuring THIRTY POUNNDS OF BONE performing ‘The Ships Log’ from ‘The Boat Project’ which was part of the Cultural Olympiad.

A big show in store from Simple Folk Radio this Saturday featuring James Yorkston in session who is about to release a new album ‘I Was A Cat From A Book’ which you can hear a track from below.