It’s been a couple of years since I wrote about Irish folk artist Kris Drever. As a result it’s almost time for his followup to his debut record Black Water. Kris is one of the new voices of Irish folk and has been nominated in the past as best male vocalist at the Irish Music Awards and also nominated by BBC Radio as best folk act. So his sophomore release is highly anticipated.
I’ve got the title track “Mark The Hard Earth” to share with you today. It’s a good example of traditional English folk accented with touches of more contemporary sounds.
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I don’t post a lot of videos on songs:Illinois. For one reason I think it’s kind of lazy – we’re not called mp3 blogs for nothing and I think each post should have an mp3. Secondly the artists I write about don’t often have proper videos. They’re barely able to get their records out into the market, so I think doing a video is an afterthought if at all. So I was glad to get the new video for the Caroline Herring song “Tales Of The Islander”. The video does justice to Caroline’s beautiful song as well as showing her beautifully serene and peaceful personality.
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