Chris Wood May 21, 2013

Chris Wood has been nominated for a BBC Folk Award 12 times and received six awards from just three albums. He kept bumping into Joan Armatrading, at the Folk Awards, then at Glastonbury, she was so taken with Wood’s writing she invited him to be her special guest on her UK tour (he opened for her at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in November last year).

During the Armatrading tour, Wood travelled the country, eavesdropping on conversations from pound shops to tea rooms, army recruiting centres to hotel saunas collecting ‘the poetry of recession’. His response is None The Wiser, a fourth solo album. Justin Mitchell (keyboards/trumpet) and Felix Krish (bass) join the singer, guitarist and fiddle player as he sings humble hymns and sweeping statements. From Alzheimers to William Blake, Wood lovingly takes the pulse of his homeland and this might be his best album yet...

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