Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings - Parlour Ballads [Mustard Colour LP]

Cat. no: HUD052LPX
Format: LP Mustard Colour LP
Barcode: 5051078015811
Release Date: 25 Oct 2024
Genre: Folk

Parlour Ballads is the new album from Jon Boden, a piano led record full of sentimental ballads that tie together parlour music and folk song

Parlour Ballads seeks to awaken the sound of the old, well loved, slightly out of tune domestic piano and to reunite it with (or introduce it to) songs that might feel glad of the acquaintance.

"My great- great- grandfather Alphonse Cary (1848-1922) ran a music shop in Newbury and would, for a fee, perform the latest parlour songs, recording himself (accompanied on piano by a colleague) onto wax cylinder there and then for the customer to take away. Sadly I have yet to fnd any surviving cylinders of his voice.

I have been toying with the idea of a piano-based folk album for many years."

Jon Boden is the stand out performer of his generation of traditional folk music, but he is an artist whose repertoire extends far beyond the boundaries of the genre.

Most recognisably Boden is the lead singer of the multi- award winning folk juggernaut Bellowhead. Jon also performs in his duo Spiers & Boden with John Spiers. Alongside his solo work and shows with the Remnant Kings he has been commissioned to compose and arrange for the likes of the Royal Shakespeare company.

Parlour Ballads was produced by long time collaborator Andy Bell and features The Remnant Kings - Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls, Rob Harbron, Sally Hawkins & M G Boulter. Paul Sartin was a key member of the Remnant Kings for ten years and was involved in the early developments of this album and we can hear his infuence 

LP Mustard Colour LP Tracks: On One April Morning / Bonny Bunch of Roses / Clock O' Clay / Merry Mountain Child / Mortal Cares / Oggie Man / Old Brown's Daughter / Prentice Boy / Danny Deever / Rose of Allendale / London Waterman

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