Poor Man's Heaven - Seth Lakeman

Poor Man s Heaven is West Country folk king S Seth Lakeman s third album and has much to live up to after the critical and commercial success of his first two albums Kitty Jay and Freedom Fields. And it does. From the outset each song is injected with passionate lyrics which tell a story, couple with frantic fiddle. The first song, The Hurlers is a brilliant foot stomping song about the myth of a stone formation on Bodmin which is reputed to be formed when some hurlers were turned to stone by the priest for playing their sport on a Sunday. Feather in a Storm continues in a similar vein; this time with a coastal theme and tell the story of a pirate who lured ships to ...

Freedom Fields - Seth Lakeman

of music back to the troubadours and minstrels who wandered through the countryside from village to village passing on the news of current events through their songs. S Seth Lakeman was born into a musical family in Devon. He and his brothers, Sam and Sean (I think their parents must have a thing about names beginning with S ) are all involved in the folk music scene, although Seth is the one who seems to have found commercial success and received the most public acclaim. His early style of folk music was firmly rooted in the traditional, with songs quite often based on historical events, frequently West Country based history, or rural mythology and sounds, in many ...