Recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nick Harper’s 58 Fordwych Rd revisits the songs and stories that shaped his childhood home, where folk legends once gathered.

Nick Harper’s latest release ‘58 Fordwych Rd’ invites you back into the living room of his childhood home, but this is not just any old childhood home. As the son of English folk legend Roy Harper, Nick was exposed to some of the acoustic folk greats intimately playing in his living room from an early age, and through this spellbinding album he offers a nod to all the folk gods who passed through the doors of 58 Fordwych Rd.

Nick recorded this album live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and this appears to have been the perfect way to capture the intimacy of the album, it feels as if you could hear a pin drop, the audience certainly must have been enraptured, sat transfixed on the edge of their seats. As it is a live album, it is interspersed with sometimes insightful, often witty, and always personable and engaging stage patter from Nick which helps to set the scene and conjures up vivid images of his unique childhood growing up in a house where the likes of Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny and Jackson C. Frank were regular guests in the family home.

As has come to be expected from Nick over his 20 plus year career, his acoustic guitar playing is phenomenal and his voice carries the meaning of every phrase with clarity and thoughtfulness. Although this is technically a covers album, it is arguably far more than that. Nick puts his unique stylistic twist on every song, making it own, whilst still capturing the essence of the original version. His version of Blues Runs The Game by Jackson C Frank is a great example of this. In the verses he predominantly stays faithful to the original but on the refrain he switches to an almost ethereal Jeff Buckley-esque falsetto which enhances the haunting and lonely nature of the track.

Exquisite, intimate and profound, this album draws you into Nick Harper’s unique upbringing whilst also shedding new light on songs by old folk favourites.

Find out more and order your copy of 58 Fordwych Rd at harperspace.com

See Nick Harper live as he takes 58 Fordwych Rd on the road:

Friday, October 10 @ 7:30PM
The Yard Manchester, Manchester - Get tickets

Friday, October 17 @ 7:00PM
Ropery Hall, Barton-upon-humber - Get tickets

Saturday, October 18 @ 7:30PM
The Parish, Huddersfield - Get tickets

Sunday, October 19 @ 6:00PM
Water Rats, London - Get tickets

Wednesday, October 22 @ 7:00PM
Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham - Get tickets

Saturday, November 14 @ 7:00PM
The Globe at Hay: Institute of Art and Ideas, Hay-on-wye - Get tickets

Friday, December 5 @ 7:30PM
The Queens Head, Box - Get tickets