The spark to seek out this masterful record was a grainy black-and-white film about The Watersons called Travelling for a Living, directed by Derrick Knight. The 1966 film made a lasting and deep ...

Compare the column inches devoted to the death of Maurice Gibb last year to that of Lal Waterson five years ago. We all knew about the former; the fact that the latter went by virtually unreported ...

Incessant sleigh bells? Head-bopping tempo? Seven music writers pick their all-time favourite festive bangers As festive bangers go, Low’s Just Like Christmas is the sparkly stocking with a lump of ...

For forty years - so far - two adjectives could always be applied, safely, to one of England's seminal groups: "vocal" & "English". The Watersons are a family band: members are Watersons, their ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

The Watersons' ageless Frost And Fire: A Calendar Of Ritual And Magical Songs is being re-released by Topic Records on October 28. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut ...

When I think of seasonal songs, I don’t think about The Watersons’ Frost And Fire straightaway. I think of ‘The Scarecrow’, a song from the extraordinary album they released seven years later, Bright ...

With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England. By Jim Farber Norma Waterson, a vaunted fixture in ...

Revered folk artist Norma Waterson has died, leaving behind a lasting legacy in the English traditional music scene. The Hull-born musician was one of the founders of seminal folk group The Watersons ...

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