Thirty Pounds of Bone & Philip Reeder - Still Every Year They Went review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month

The Guardian 60

(Armellodie)
An evocative album of softly shined shanties and folk songs recorded on a working fishing boat, with added atmosphere supplied by the waves and gulls

Folk music and field recordings have always been earthy, natural bedfellows; the sounds of real life or the land help to lash those old songs back to a universal present. Producer Philip Reeder and Thirty Pounds of Bone (AKA Shetland-born singer/multi-instrumentalist Johny Lamb) have taken this approach to its extreme on Still Every Year They Went, an album of fishing songs recorded in the belly of a boat while fishermen continued working around them.