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JC Carroll Acoustic Show

About the band

Born in a Cellar Bar in Camden that is a monument to the founding father of British Folk Guitar Davey Graham, this Band has more then a passing relationship with the Great Man, Bass player Tony Reeves accompanied Davey on his most Famous albums "Folk Roots and Beyond" and "Midnight Man", whilst Guitarist Joe Woolley was his last pupil and protégé.
Add to this mix singer songwriter and unreconstructed punk Rocker JC Carroll you get a new take on "Folk Blues and Beyond." From gentle Astral weeks style "Caveman TV" songs to Arabic/Jazz crossover "Golborne Road there is a fluidity to this Trio that encompasses so many genres and yet defies pigeonholes. Here you will find English Folk Songs, Appallacian Murder Ballads. British Blues , Arabic Jazz and JC's stories of live love divorce and death in the suburbs all wrapped in a deft accompaniment of String Bass, Guitar, mandolin accordion and Uke. Carroll's classic 1977 Sound of the Suburbs recently revived by Ade Edmundson's Bad Shepherds is represented in the set, but not as a folk punk pastiche its here as part of JC's Body of work, and for those of you who have been watching his progress from punk to accordionist to Film music composer, it's a great body of work and an interesting journey. His songs, stripped down to bare bones acoustic shine through the set as does his narrative and wit.

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