Tag: The Unthanks
The Unthanks: Mount the Air
Two years in the making, the newly-released album by British contemporary folk band The Unthanks is a majestic collection. If all the lyrics are still curated from old poetry and song collections, learnt from other singers or newly written in the mode of traditional ballads,…
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset: The Bairns
A song only becomes a folk song when people start singing it. Rachel Unthank The Unthanks are an English folk band from Newcastle formed in 2004. Originally an all-female quartet, Rachel and Becky Unthank with Niopha Keegan (violin & voice) and Belinda O’Hooley (piano & voice) recorded…