Time Magazine has said "Linda Thompson may be rock's best woman singer", and anybody with an interest in contemporary music would expect that description to be expanded to include folk music. Although Linda hasn't made a recording for seventeen years, the pure, [...]
Quite simply: one of England's greatest voices has now made the ultimate recording. An Equal Love demonstrates Christine's growth as both a singer and a songwriter - half the album is written by her. "Collister's effect is transfixing" - fROOTS. "....her finest [...]
Christine's second solo album for Topic finds her great voice in even better form, if that is possible. Into the Light is the closest thing yet to capturing the live quality and personality of this outstanding singer. Its style is more acoustic [...]
With the release of Prodigal Son (winner of BBC Radio 2 Folk Award's album of the year 2008) Martin Simpson created a contemporary classic that effortlessly crossed musical boundaries and exhibited what many had known for years - here is one of [...]
A radio-ballad about Britain's nomadic peoples by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger The last of the radio-ballads deals with gypsies, tinkers and the rest of Britain's travellers - 'people talking about what it means to be a tenth-rate citizen in [...]
A radio-ballad about boxers by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger Part documentary, part allegory, The Fight Game takes the listener into the gladiatorial arena of professional boxing. "In The Big Hewer, about coal mining and The Fight Game, about boxing, [...]
A radio-ballad about the teenagers in England and Scotland by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger. Just as groups like The Beatles were about to redefine youth culture, the radio-ballad team produced this powerfully revealing account of the lives and dreams [...]
A radio-ballad about the psychology of pain by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger. Conceived as a documentary on the psychology of pain, The Body Blow focuses on five people partially or totally disabled by polio. 'The rhythmic nuances of the [...]
A radio-ballad about Britain's coal miners by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger The Big Hewer - 'a poetic documentary with worker heroes,' as The Times called it - charts the lives of Britain's coal miners, in the Northeast, East Midlands [...]
A radio-ballad about Britain's herring fishing communities by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger Britain's herring fishing communities are the subject of this, perhaps the best-remembered and most widely heard of all the radio-ballads. It was broadcast in more than 80 [...]
A radio-ballad about the building of the M1 Motorway by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger The second of the remarkable Radio Ballads Song of a Road tells the story of the making of the M1, Britain's first motorway. The road [...]
A radio-ballad about the railwaymen of England by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger The first of the radio-ballads was inspired by a steam locomotive driver who died performing an act of heroism. It was based, like its successors, on many [...]