Whilst this is great, does it prove our folk credentials? It proves that we can play at least a few traditional songs, but does that make us ‘folk musicians’? Any semblance of the idea that it did was blown out of the water when we realised (reliably informed by someone at Loughton Folk Club) ‘My Donal’ (track 4) was actually written by Owen Head. A very small amount of internet-research revealed this was indeed the case and he only died in 2003. So we then had the sobering task of trying to find the owner of his estate and handing over the 75p of royalties owing to him. Deflated by this embarrassingly amateur oversight, we were brought back to questions about our folk cred. Are we simply urban folk fakers? Is folk really something you have to be born into?


Many aficionados of folk music have said they began on the circuit of folk clubs aged 17, where they put in their years of graft and training. For Ben Walker and I to have done that it would have been necessary for folk to be part of our lives from a much younger age. Is it not enough for us to be willing to trawl the folk clubs now? On the other hand, we also like to play a bit of country and Americana and will be releasing our ‘Homemade Heartache’ EP, 4 self-penned folk/country style tracks this summer. So will we ever truly be folk musicians if that is not all we wish to be? To be truly classed as a folk musician do you have to play exclusively ‘folk’ music?


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