Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds - Singing It All Back Home ( AUDIO CD 05-24-2019 )

Folk is fixed, staid and fusty, stuck in its ways. This reputation lingers, so shake it: the best of it has survived by being remixed and reborn. Take the work of Naomi Bedford (a one-time singer with Orbital) and Paul Simmons (of folk punks the Men They Couldn’t Hang). Now on their third album together, they are resolutely DIY, self-releasing and self-promoting, but their results are beautifully polished, what mainstream labels should be releasing: spirited revisions of traditional songs, rather than anodyne collections of aural chloroform.

CONDITION: NEW

TRACK LISTING

1 I Must and Will Be Married (feat. Lisa Knapp & Ben Walker) 4:01
2 The Fateful Blow (feat. Rory McLeod, Ben Walker & Ben Paley) Paul Simmonds & Naomi Bedford 3:00
3 A Rich Irish Lady (feat. Justin Currie & Ben Walker) 4:22
4 The Rebel Soldier (feat. Ben Walker & Ben Paley) Paul Simmonds & Naomi Bedford 3:54
5 Hangman (feat. Rory McLeod & Ben Walker) Paul Simmonds & Naomi Bedford 3:10
6 Hands on the Plough (feat. Rory McLeod & Ben Walker) Paul Simmonds & Naomi Bedford 2:59
7 Matty Groves (feat. Ben Walker) 7:48
8 Who's That Knocking (feat. Ben Paley) 3:05
9 The Sheffield Apprentice 4:43
10 The Foggy Dew 1:53