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Best Americana Offering: “Outside”, Ian Roland
A folksy treasure, “Outside” tells of a conversation between father and son. The first verse coming from the son’s perspective as he asks to venture outside of his childhood instilled walls. The second verse contains the father’s response; replete with metaphorically reasoned concerns and counsel. Lyrically rhymed to perfection and with a storytelling flourish that speaks with allegorical grandeur, “Outside” is a musical think piece of nuanced proportions. Eclectic Pop

Here’s an mp3 file of the live radio session Simon and I did for Marlow FM’s ‘World Folk Show’, with host Paul Mansell, on Sat 30th Jan 2016

We had a fantastic time at Royston Folk Club last night. Thank you Chris Walls Cee Dub and Mark Gamon for inviting us to play a slot.

We had a great time yesterday (Sat 30th Jan 2016) doing a live radio session for Marlow FM’s ‘World Folk Show’, with host Paul Mansell. I was accompanied by Simon Yapp on fiddle and backing vocals and we played tracks from the ‘Helicopter’ EP and ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album.

We’ll also be doing a live radio session for Uckfield FM’s ‘Folk Is Not a Rude Word and Neither is Country’, hosted by Chris Giles, this coming Wed 3rd Feb 2016 from 9pm.

Here are some YouTube videos of our slot at Downend Folk Club, filmed by a member of the audience, on 15th January 2015, where we supported Tobias Ben Jacob & Lukas Drinkwater. Thank you for filming these, Brian.

How That Dust Jumps
Hate
Songbirds
Helicopter
Passing Through
Hope

Fantastic review in Rocking Magpie of the ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album…

Here’s a live radio session we did for Doug Welch’s ‘Kent Folk’ show on BBC Radio Kent on Sunday 10th Jan 2016…Interview starts around 21 mins in…

Ian Roland, Doug Welch, Simon Yapp at the BBC Radio Kent studios

‘How That Dust Jumps’ album featured in Armandaleg www.armandalegmusic.com

I will be doing a live radio session, accompanied by fiddle player Simon Yapp, for BBC Radio Kent on Sunday 10th Jan 2016. We will be playing songs from the ‘How That Dust Jumps’ album on Doug Welch’s ‘Kent Folk’ show at 9pm on 96.7 FM | 104.2 FM

‘How That Dust Jumps’ album is in Americana UK’s ‘Writers Best Of 2015’ …

“The great and the good of Americana UK have scratched their individual heads over the traditional pints of Tia Maria and Grenadine and have come up with this the absolute best of everything that has crossed our desk this year.” Americana UK, WRITERS BEST OF …. 2015, posted 24 Dec 2015 www.americana-uk.com/features/best-of/writers-best-of-2015