Steeplejack Music is an independent record label focusing on the genres of folk, acoustic pop/rock and adult contemporary.

Happy New Year to everyone. We would like to wish you all a happy and successful 2012.

Our year has started with a nice surprise. The track “Ich weiß ein fein brauns Mägdelein”, sung by Mark Bennett on the Geisterbahn CD, has made it back in at number 18 on the “Liederbestenliste für deutschsprachige Musik“.

It looks like it’s going to be a good year!

The Geisterbahn album has been nominated for the quarterly German music critics prize in the category “Folk and Folklore”. This is another great result for producer Andrew Cadie and all the other singers involved in the project. A pat on the back all round.
Information about the prize can be found here: www.schallplattenkritik.de

The track “Ich weiß ein fein brauns Mägdelein”, sung by Mark Bennett on the Geisterbahn CD, has made number 20 on the “Liederbestenliste für deutschsprachige Musik“. A further title, “Tanz mir nicht mit meine Jungfer Käthen” sung by Craig Herbertson, was also mentioned in the listing. This is a great reward for Andrew Cadie and all the singers involved in the project.

The “Liederbestenliste” chart has been complied monthly since 1984 by a jury consisting of 20 journalists and radio editors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Coming soon to Steeplejack is the latest album by Craig Herbertson – Communication Breakdown.

Craig is best known as a writer of songs based in the Scottish tradition, but his latest CD ‘Communication Breakdown’ draws on a variety of experiences. It includes songs about the Apocalypse, soldiers returning to England from the East, how to love a drug addict, New Orleans eccentrics and the simple vision of a beautiful woman.
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Traditional German folk-songs sung by folk singers from the British Isles.

After 10 years living and playing folk music in Germany, Andrew Cadie decided it was time to get together a rabble of fellow musicians and go on the trail of German folk songs. Although German songs are not completely forgotten, it appears that folk songs from the British Isles seem to be more widely sung in Germany than the indigenous ones. Despite one or two fairly high profile releases of German folk song CDs in recent years it is still relatively difficult to hear ‘folkie’ arrangements of this sort of material.
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