Friday
Tim says:
“Songs are oxygen and water to me. My audience’s response to them sustains me and keeps me alive. “Folk” is a broad church and I like all kinds of music that directly or indirectly fall within the category – including more than a tinge of Americana. Words and music resonate most tellingly for me as a vision of the Lost English pastoral – and of a modern English melancholy. I’m from the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire. I lived in California for 12 years, but back in England now, to stay. Here, with my children, are where my bones belong. Mine is a deep love affair with our soft and savage, fragile and friable rural England; every coppice and spinney, stonewall and stile, washing line and wickergate, beermug and barstool, has a story to tell; some of which I try to put in songs. Songs with a foot in the past and an eye to the future. Out the corner of my eye there’s a half-glimpsed other England; the England for which John Mortimer wrote there is no known cure”.