Stick In The Wheel - A Thousand Pokes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2018 . East London five piece folk band Stick In The Wheel are headed by singer Nicola Kearey, and guitarist/producer Ian Carter. Their debut From Here (2015) was fRoots magazine Album of the Year and a MOJO Folk Album of the Year, with four BBC Folk Award nominations since their inception in 2013. They are known for Kearey's fierce, working-class delivery, culturally and politically switched on, the group have been widely commended for their timely appraisal of English Folk, and their skill in telling stories through song that reconnect modern audiences to the past - drawing unexpected parallels between then and now. Album Tracks 1. Over Again 2. Weaving Song 3. Witch Bottle 4. White Copper Alley 5. Follow Them True 6. 100,000 Years 7. Abbots Bromley 8. Roving Blade 9. Unquiet Grave 10. Blind Beggar 11. Poor Old Horse 12. Red Carnation 13. As I Roved Out

Stick In The Wheel (singer Nicola Kearey, and guitarist/producer Ian Carter), blend the traditional with their own innovative and unique sound.Their debut From Here (2015) and second album Follow Them True (2018) received much critical acclaim; with the Guardian describing their music as 'razor-sharp, direct and fantastic'. Their third album Hold Fast is the creation of a band who are politically motivated, unapologetically raw, experimental and genuine. It's a made-under-pressure, no-punches-pulled unique and vivid collection of protest music in it's true sense, and in times like these it makes Stick In The Wheel one of Britain's most essential bands.Hold Fast was written and recorded in the six months preceding the global pandemic. As the impending situation closed in, there was Incha real sense of urgency, how it was crucial to get it right, a feeling that we can't mess it up,Inch says Carter. With most of the work taking place at the band's own studio, there was an intensity to the sessions, with Carter ultimately moving into the studio to produce and mix it as the world went into lockdown. Given the timing, the album's key themes of struggle and seem salient now more than ever. Kearey says, InchThis record is about working hard in the face of adversity, focusing on the positive, questioning the canon and making an offering with hope and resilience for the future.Inch Album Tracks 1. A Tree Must Stand in the Earth 2. Budg & Snudg 3. Top Knot 4. Villon Song 5. Gold So Red 6. Fake Away 7. Soldier Soldier 8. Possible Reasons for Eventual Admission to the Asylum 9. Drive the Cold Winter Away 10. Nine Herb Charms 11. Forward

These fresh new arrangements recorded at the renowned Eastcote Studios burst with vital energy, as Stick In The Wheel present live favourites from their recent touring band Siân Monaghan on drums, George Hoyle on bass, along with Ian Carter's trademark dobro and synths and Nicola Kearey's unmistakable voice. Whereas Tonebeds for Poetry reflected their prolific studio experiments, Endurance Soundly Caged captures the intensity of the last two years' live shows. The raw holler of Bedlam - recently featured in The Essex Serpent (AppleTV) - hardens through to a revitalized, heavier White Copper Alley's S*x-worker fable, drawing a line to a supercharged version of Villon Song, a 2020 favorite of both Iggy Pop and Marc Riley. Robot, taken from Tom Cox's short story of the same name, is an all-new version of the menacing folk-horror saga that has mesmerised recent live audiences. An synth-led and autotuned As I Roved Out weaves a 10th Century charm into it's other-worldly pastoral, whilst psychedelic Gold So Red conjures a final spell from one of the oldest surviving carols. The title is taken from a line in Bedlam, from the 1672 songbook InchPills to Purge MelancholyInch. The last two years saw SITW studio album Hold Fast (2020), and 2021's more abstract mixtape, Tonebeds for Poetry (#2 Guardian Contemporary AotY), as well as the collaborative project Perspectives on Tradition (2022 with Nabihah Iqbal, Olugbenga & Jon1st). Their relentless approach to questioning traditional music forms is matched only by the energy with which they play it. Album Tracks 1. Bedlam 2. White Copper Alley 3. Robot 4. As I Roved Out 5. Villon Song 6. Gold So Red