Karine Polwart, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Julie Fowlis arrive in the northeast primarily to perform tracks from their collaborative album Looking For a Thread. This particular American/Scottish alliance was instigated by Carpenter, who had previously worked with Julie Fowlis on the Transatlantic Sessions and had long since admired the work of Karine Polwart.
Kenny Anderson, also known as King Creosote hails from Fife, Scotland. He was one of the founders of The Fence Collective a loose knit group of folks who would release music and put on events in their little corner of the world. I was fortunate enough to be also living in Fife at the time and managed to attended several Fence Collective gigs, so it was with a feeling of nostalgia I went along to The Fire Station to review King Creosote 20 years on.
I’m really looking forward to seeing THE WASHBOARD RESONATORS live but when I saw them referred to as ‘Purveyors of Blues, Jazz, Folk and Hokum’, I thought to myself 'What the hell is Hokum?’ That notion sent me down one of those internet rabbit holes and what I came up with was some fascinating music history.
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