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My Top 50 Albums Of All Time (Now including a Top 131, sort of)

As you may have seen, this week’s NME features the 2013 edition of their 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. For this one, they also accepted votes from a bunch of the mag’s alumni, including me, so I thought it’d be an easy, albeit self-indulgent, blog to reproduce my Top 50 albums here.

Bert Jansch: “I didn’t think in terms of career… I never have”

From Uncut’s January 2010 issue, John Robinson talks to Bert Jansch about LA Turnaround, alcohol and Led Zeppelin

Sam Lee: “Ground Of Its Own”

I first came across the English folk singer Sam Lee just over a year ago, when I wrote about a tribute album to Peter Bellamy. Alongside more familiar names like The Unthanks and Trembling Bells, it was Lee’s version of “Puck’s Song” that stood out, as he cut a fine path through an artful mix of old folk recordings and incantatory drones.

THE DECEMBERISTS – THE KING IS DEAD

Uplifting, melodic sixth is the Portland, Oregon conceptualists’ most immediate work...

The 37th Uncut Playlist Of 2010

Take a look at this, which has been the best thing I’ve heard this week by a mile, and the clip’s superb, too.

James Yorkston And The Big Eyes Family Players – Folk Songs

Great Scot draws deep from the wellspring of British folk + Q&A

Trembling Bells: “Carbeth”

Perhaps as a response to the American psych-folk scene, over the past few years there’ve been a handful of British bands who’ve sought to channel the late-‘60s/early-‘70s folk-rock scene. Most of them, unfortunately, have been more or less worthy but misfiring. Trembling Bells, though, are a big exception.

Ray Davies and Clash Legends To Appear At Laugharne Weekend

Mick Jones and Topper Headon join host of authors and musicians at Welsh festival

The Incredible String Band – Tricks Of The Senses

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors

Inspirational Guitarist Davy Graham Has Died

The man who inspired Paul Simon, Shirley Collins and John Martyn has died aged 68 from cancer
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