Jon Boden has an impressive pedigree in traditional folk music, including 'Spiers and Boden', 'Bellowhead', and Eliza Carthy's band 'The Ratcatchers'. A few months ago he started a new project called 'A Folk Song a Day'. It's exactly what the title says; if you subscribe to his podcast, you will receive a traditional folk song (sung by him) every day. Jon has a very fine singing voice, and many of the songs are unaccompanied; a few have a fiddle or accordion in them, but that's about it.
I subscribed yesterday, and was able to download all the songs released in the month of August. At the end of each month, Jon seems to take the songs down and release them as a CD which you can get from iTunes and a few other places.
So far I'm really enjoying them. A few of the songs are already familiar to me, but many of them are not, and I'm finding that hearing them performed unaccompanied is a great way to put the spotlight on the song itself, rather than on anyone's musical expertise.
If you want to try them out without subscribing to the podcast, just go to the website where all the songs for August are available in streaming audio.
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