Freedom Fields by Seth Lakeman

Not a book but some music today.
Us old folkies have to welcome in the new especially when we've known about them for ages and the rest of you may not have done.
Local lad Seth Lakeman hit the news with a Mercury Prize nomination for Kitty Jay last year and has landed a well deserved recording contract in the process.This probably saves him having to record tracks in his brother's kitchen just up the road from here, but I bet the acoustics were good.
Seth was born and brought up on the Dartmoor folk tradition and has added his own unique style of fiddle playing to the mix.He's worked and slogged hard with his music over the last few years and at last it's happening for him. Richly deserved.
We all loved his last album, Kitty Jay.
What do you mean you have never heard of Kitty Jay? Where on earth have you been? London? New York? It was launched at a concert for the inmates of Dartmoor Prison, weren't you there? Me neither, but we all bought the album.
His latest album Freedom Fields is being re-released on the new label on Monday August 21st and head to Seth's brilliant website for a preview of the single, Lady of the Sea.
Don't worry, you can hear the words and the tune is nice and he doesn't put his hand over his ear or sing through his nose having hummed first to find the note. All because he jumps around, sings and plays the fiddle at the same time, this is clever.
Freedom Fields was the site of a famous battle in Plymouth during the English Civil War and the city then commemorated it by building a maternity hospital of the same name nearby.
Many of us have fought bigger battles of our own in there, thanks for reminding us Seth!