Hailing from Birmingham in the West Midlands, singer and multi-instrumentalist Stuart Estell performs on more instruments than is healthy - mainly concertina and dulcimer, but nothing's off-limits really. Except woodwind. He doesn't get on with woodwind.
He plays a wide variety of folk material from the English and Appalachian traditions - the old tragic ballads, songs from the singing of the Copper Family and Jean Ritchie, plus his own songs, and a variety of covers which range from the more sensible (Johnny Cash, the Carter Family) to the more obscure (Pop Will Eat Itself) and the downright daft (George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows", anyone?)
NEW ALBUM - MOTHER'S THINKING BATH - NOW AVAILABLE
featuring 11 new original instrumental tracks in the English and Appalachian folk traditions.
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"Mother's Thinking Bath" was recorded in Birmingham as a tribute to the late Wild Willi Beckett of the Psycho Surgeons and brims over with all sorts of instruments: anglo concertina, appalachian dulcimer, duet concertina, piano, harmonium, melodeon, guitars and whatever else happened to be to hand.
The album is chock full of dance rhythms, drones, and downright catchy tunes.
More importantly, profits from the first batch of CDs pressed will go to WATER AID in memory of Wild Willi Beckett.
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