A prolific recording artist since 2002, James Yorkston has once again found a new way of presenting his poetic songs.
This is to add to his already lengthy list of collaborations that have taken in everyone from the Athletes and the Fence Collective to the Big Eyes Family Players, Kathryn Williams, Jon Thorne, and Suhail Yusuf Khan. The self-styled “low-rung sangster from the East Neuk o’ Fife, Scotland” has also, you could say, found a new opportunity to escape the “folk” tag that’s continued to dog him ever since he once (or twice) recorded an album of traditional songs, worked with the Watersons, and – as an acoustic-guitar player of some renown – supported Bert Jansch on tour.
Yorkston is working once more with soft-voiced…

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