Projects

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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