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James Yorkston - Folk Songs

Review by Noel Gardner

In the course of dutifully checking some dates pertaining to James Yorkston’s back catalogue, the man’s Wikipedia entry alerted me»

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james yorkston returns in the company of the big eyes family players with a new album of traditional songs from the length and breadth of the great britain and ireland, and one tune from galicia in spain. after a decade which has seen folk music morph into nu-folk, mobile phone-ad folk, mortgage-folk, smoothie-folk and so on, yorkston has reached back into the tradition of song and place and drawn a line in the sand.
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