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Andy Jackson Ken Stubb's - Willetts on Forest Tracks (6) Ken Stubb's - Willetts on Forest Tracks 25 Oct 13


Ken Stubbs' Willetts Recordings out now on Forest Tracks

I posted on another thread the other night about a song, Beware Chalk Pit, on the Forest Tracks label. Although a founder member of the Forest Tracks record label back in 1970 I don't have that much to do with the running of it nowadays. I'm happy to leave that to the capable hands of Paul Marsh.
A recent discussion as to what Forest Tracks is up to these days prompted me to check out the website. I was delighted to see that Paul has been busy! He has produced a milestone twin CD of the The Willett Family
Released last month and launched at an evening in Lingfield on the 14th September, the tracks are from previously un-issued field recordings by the much undervalued Ken Stubbs.
Sadly Ken did not live to see his collection released on Forest Tracks but he knew that Paul would be digitising his complete collection and was happy that selections from it would be issued on Forest Tracks. (Mudcat Ken Obit thread here)
In usual Forest Tracks style there is a full 32 page accompanying booklet with short biographies of the singers, exclusive interview with Ken, song texts and previously unseen photographs by kind permission of the Willett family. Obviously many years of painstaking work.
This is only the first of several projects from the Ken Stubbs collection and the remainder will be made available via the FT website as MP3s in due course.
This was not meant to be a blatant advert but you must agree it's very exciting and I wanted to share it with you. And of course it means a whole lot of new songs to learn

Andy


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