It’s 2018 & I’m recording a new album on Dharma Records. This one is going to be a collection of traditional British folk songs arranged for voice & solo acoustic guitar. I’ve spent the last few years building up a repertoire & in the upcoming weeks & months I will be blogging about the process of finding & arranging songs, the history of the ones I have chosen & about the composition of the guitar arrangements.

For the first time in many years I have a producer, which is something I am very happy about. A producer manages the project & exercises his or her taste & judgement on arrangements. The producer has control over how the record will sound. There’s a lot to this job & I’m glad to be able to concentrate on the performance alone.

A producer called Ian Carter has the reins of this project. He is best known in UK folk for his work producing & performing in an outstanding band called Stick In The Wheel & he has many other performance, writing, engineering & production credits to his name. I feel lucky.

So for the next month or so I am intensively rehearsing & we aim to record next month. More news soon…