The Magpie Arc UK
Featuring award-winning UK folk artists Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Findlay Napier,Tom A. Wright and Alex Hunter, The Magpie
Arc is your new favourite folk/rock band from Sheffield/Scotland.
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The Magpie Arc recommends:
The first solo album of original songs by BBC Folk Award-winner Nancy Kerr, this is up there with the absolute best of the genre. 11 beautiful songs. If you haven't got it.....get it!
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Live Before Lockdown, Bootleg 2019
by Martin Simpson
Superb solo live album from one of the best guitarists in the world. A complete gem!
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It Is What It Is
by Findlay Napier
Excellent Scottish singer/songwriter/musician, variously described as "Michael Marra meets Elvis Costello" and "the Caledonian Louden Wainwright". This is his superb new album.
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Bloody Noses EP
by Richard Thompson
supported by 14 fans who also own “The Times They Are A-Changin'”
John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser. Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this. Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?). With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP.
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Serpent's Tears
by Richard Thompson
supported by 13 fans who also own “The Times They Are A-Changin'”
There's a similarity in song writing between Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell which maybe isn't surprising as they went to the same school at the same time, although Thompson is older. Due to Thompson's association with John French of Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band I searched for his work on the Bandcamp app. French, Thompson and Cornwell all have albums on the app which I'm very pleased about. Only Thompson has released contemporary albums, much to his credit.
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Darkness begins to creep into the corners on the latest from Itasca.
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