29th September 2020
In
Music & Films
To Althea From Prison film
recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, this song is appropriate as it gives a guide to coping with being confined – the words are a poem by Richard Lovelace from 1642 and it is set to music by the late, great Dave Swarbrick (Swarb) – I played support to Martin Carthy and Dave one night and Swarb asked me to play this song – I was a bit confused but took it as an honour