We talk with the phenomenal songsmith about how working with a genealogist to learn the history of her people, nearly lost to time, led to her latest album.
More than 55 years ago, a group of teenagers started a Nashville tradition. Their impact is still seen today. It's a story about longtime friendships and being united for a powerful purpose.
The folk maestro’s latest record, Nothing But Green Willow, is a beautiful collection of songs from the Appalachian Mountains. Here he tells us how he breathed new life into them
In putting together their new album Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs Of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry, Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz and his latest trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson, knew for a fact that they weren’t the only musicians who’d long obsessed over Cecil Sharp’s “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians” collection.