Detailed Description
RELEASED 22nd SEPT 2010. Formed by BBC Folk Award winning duo John
Spiers and Jon Boden, eleven piece outfit Bellowhead release their
second full length album 'Matachin'. Self-produced by the band
themselves, the album sees them taking a selection of traditional folk
songs, sea shanties and their own original material and reconstructing
them into a unique mix of raucous and brash folk songs backed with a
full brass section.
The eleven piece
folk phenomenon return with a rum sodden second album that has has seen
them enter the national album charts and impress fans and critics alike.
Reviews:
**** Mojo / **** Uncut / ***** Independent / **** Sunday Times / ****
Observer / **** Songlines.
Tracklisting:
1. Fakenham Fair
2. Roll Her Down The Bay
3. Vignette 1
4. I Drew My Ship Across The Harbour
5. Kafoozalum / The Priestes' Miss
6. Cholera Camp
7. Vignette 2
8. Whiskey Is The Life Of Man
9. Spectre Review
10. Widow's Curse
11. Bruton Town
12. Trip To Bucharest / The Flight Of The Folk Mutants Parts 1/2
13. Vignette 3