Folk Bands and Artists
Andrew Mill
https://www.andrewmillmusic.com
In between releasing his two solo albums Andrew has rambled between stages, bars, festivals, bus stops, stations and ports, trying to work out what on earth this is all about. A fork lift driving poet from Choctaw, Oklahoma; a peanut porridge seller by a burned down record shop on Orange Street, Downtown Kingston; a barman named Horace weeping and singing in his bar, the baptist choir across the road, and the brass players ripping it up in Central City, New Orleans. These are the good people, the ones that have brought tears and revelations and something towards the beginning of answers but maybe just more questions, but better and deeper ones… from Jamaica to Glasgow there are wonders of people and artists all around us… sometimes you have to go and look for something to find out what was around you all along. The words of highland rock n roll poets, the cry of 13 fiddles in a room playing reels and laments as one, the soul of a lone banjo and a story, and all the good people, animals, art, mountains and seas, here, beyond, and in between.
He decided to make Govanhill in Glasgow his home and writing base, after years of touring and has now released his second album, Wandering Albatross, written in collaboration with writers, artists and musicians he is lucky to call his friends. The brass has been swapped for accordions, banjos and fiddles, the gospel singers for friends and poets, the street jazz for bar room ballads and the raw Jamaican ska for their own Celtic soul music.
Tune in for songs of pigeons sleeping with lawnmowers, albatrosses falling for French girls, burnt deserts, bubbling sea graves, borrowed lovers and stolen wine, nursed loneliness, the biting cold, shotguns, old dogs and tire marks… weary-eyed goodbyes, teary skies, rivers dried, life sentence lies…
