Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs Of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry: CD
Thomm Jutz and his trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson aim to spread their love for Cecil Sharp’s 1916 and 1918 collection, “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians”—particularly those tunes from singers Mary Sands and Jane Gentry and the mystery and timelessness which they convey.
Thomm Jutz and his trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson aim to spread their love for Cecil Sharp’s 1916 and 1918 collection, “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians”—particularly those tunes from singers Mary Sands and Jane Gentry and the mystery and timelessness which they convey. Knowing they weren’t the only ones obsessed with this particular catalog, Simpson and Jutz found a host of others with a similar mission, bringing together a mix of roots artists from both sides of the pond—Sierra Hull, Angeline Morrison, Odessa Settles, Tim O’Brien, Tammy Rogers, Seth Lakeman, and more—to create an homage to the bridge from Appalachia to England and back, just as the songs of Sands and Gentry originally did.