Nick Harper releases the album of the show
Nick Harper releases 58 Fordwych Road, the album of his live show of the same name that celebrates British folk legends, on 26th September.
A singer and guitarist of extraordinary talents, Nick grew up surrounded by music. The family flat in North London was a regular haunt for guitar mavericks Davey Graham, Bert Jansch and Martin Carthy and singer-songwriters including Sandy Denny and Jackson C Frank, among other friends of Nick's dad, singer-songwriter-guitarist Roy Harper.
Harper senior, as well as creating a catalogue of outstanding albums including Flat Baroque and Berserk, Stormcock and HQ, was the inspiration behind Led Zeppelin’s Hats Off to Harper. He also sang Have a Cigar on Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here album.
With 58 Fordwych Road, Nick focused on and interpreted songs and guitar pieces by visitors to the flat at that address. It won a Herald Angel for outstanding performance when Nick took it to the Edinburgh Fringe and included Davey Graham's guitarists' rite of passage, Angi, Bert Jansch's Blackwaterside and Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where the Time Goes – all linked by Nick's entertaining chat.
The album is available to pre-order now here
