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Voices

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 Voices 2025 Outlaws & Heroes. All-era Folk, blues, country, americana selection with the usual healthy focus on protest songs.   ^^stream & download^^ CLICK PLAY TWICE There's a whole load of shite going off in the world right now with levels of ignorance, misinformation, cruelty, inhumanity, surveilance & polarisation not seen in the West in 80 years. With our freedoms, economic security and the living planet itself under serious threat billionaires are running amok, stirring up racial predjudice & class war to cover up their ebezzlement en mass  while impoverishing governments (i.e. the people) at previously unseen levels everywhere . Enough is enough! The people must & will prevail over big money and greed eventually due to total unsustainability. It requires a complete overturn of economic & management systems as we know them though and will involve some personal sacrifices and lifestyle changes but it is doable. Right now, while we're on the ...

June Tabor & Friends - Fountains Flowing

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June Tabor & Friends - Fountains Flowing June Tabor is a cultural icon and towering figure in the folk music scene, the 'First Lady of Folk' releasing around 30 albums and performing at countless festivals & events since the early 70s. During this time she has collaborated with many other artists, crossing genres & breaking much new ground.   ^^stream & download^^ Folk music is not concerned with transmitting history and tradition alone but also serves to record contemporary events, causes and commentaries and June has excelled in this field, refusing to sell out by adhering stoically to purity of form... and this tenacity paid off eventually as she found success on her own terms. She is open to experimentation, occasionally trying her hand at jazz, rock and other styles (as can be heard here), but generally rejects modern revisionism and frequently performs in time-honoured, pure, unaccompanied a capella format. June has collaborated with a host of o...