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rever McCusker Woomble may sound like a dilapidated McCusker worked together on a Kate Rusby tour – on which
firm of chartered surveyors, but they’ve come up with
a short solo showcase effectively triggered Drever’s solo
one of the most unexpectedly fresh and entrancing albums
career – and they’ve been united in mutual admiration and a
FOLK
of the year.
common desire to break new territory ever since.
Well, maybe it shouldn’t be considered that unexpected.
The third member of this holy alliance of chartered surveyors
This is, after all, a Scottish supergroup of sorts. A supremely
is even more intriguing…Mr Roddy Woomble, mainman
imaginative guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and
arranger, Orkney’s Kris Drever is one of the hottest new
with Idlewild, rock band of this parish but an avid, if unlikely,
talents in the UK, both as a member of the all-conquering,
convert to folk music. “I’ve been getting into folk over the last
improvisational trio Lau and a brilliant solo album Black
few years. After a while in a rock band you start becoming
Water that’s not only won him various awards but a glut of
more open-minded about music and I started listening
invitations to work with other people. Like fiddle star John
to people like Fairport Convention, Trees, Pentangle, Bert
McCusker, an iconic figure dating back to seven years on the
Jansch – people I never knew anything about when I was 18.
road with the Battlefield Band, 10 years with former partner And I’ve become a big fan of Dick Gaughan, especially his
Kate Rusby, a couple of solo albums and, most recently, a Handful of Earth album, which I saw him play live at Celtic
seven-month world tour with Mark Knopfler. Drever and
Connections.”
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