FRIDAY MUSIC: The Unthanks, by JD

Can't believe I haven't featured the Unthank sisters before now and I had forgotten how good they are. Their father George Unthank is also a folk singer with a quartet called the Keelers; worth investigating further I think. The sisters use 'folk' and traditional music as a starting point for their musical explorations which leads them in all sorts of interesting directions.

"Concise descriptions of The Unthanks range variously from “music that asks you to consider everything you know and un-think it”, to “a take on tradition that flips so effortlessly between jazz, classical, ambient and post-rock, it makes any attempt to put a label on them a waste of time”.

https://www.the-unthanks.com/

The Unthanks – Mount The Air (Folk Awards 2016)

The Unthanks - Magpie - Later... with Jools Holland - BBC

The Unthanks perform The Testimony of Patience Kershaw

The Unthanks - The Bay Of Fundy (Official Video)

River River by The Unthanks

The Unthanks - King of Rome (2012 Folk Music Awards)
(King of Rome was written by Dave Sudbury of Derby. Here is the link for the story of Charlie Hudson and his famous pigeon.
http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/features....)

Unique and unbelievably excellent, I'm sure you will agree.