Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs Of Black British Experience [Green Vinyl]

Cat. no: TTSLP007
Format: LP Green Vinyl
Barcode: 714822940078
Release Date: 08 Mar 2024
Genre: Folk

Limited edition green opaque vinyl re-pressing of widely-acclaimed 2022 Topic Records debut, produced by Eliza Carthy

The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience,' released on Topic Records in October 2022, lifted Cornwall-based folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Angeline Morrison, out of relative obscurity and into the limelight. Immediately recognised as an important work in the British folk canon, Morrison's courageous album rightfully enjoyed unanimous acclaim. 'The Sorrows Songs' shines a light into a previously, virtually neglected corner of Black British History. Whereas, the USA has long since documented its Black history in song, until now, the UK had no real equivalent. 'The Sorrow Songs' begins to address this. Angeline refers to the album as "re-storying" and as a gift not only to the forgotten Black ancestors of these islands but to the folk community here today.

Produced by Eliza Carthy and featuring some of her beautiful, soaring string arrangements, The Sorrow Songs also features a guest appearance by her father and bona fde folk legend, Martin Carthy on 'Slave No More.'

The original black vinyl pressing of this album quickly sold out in 2022. This green opaque re-pressing, a limited edition of 500 copies, makes it available once again for those who missed out.

Hype sticker of press review quotes included - The Guardian, Uncut, Mojo, Folkradio, etc, etc

The Guardian newspaper's Folk Album Of The Year, 2022
'The Sorrow Songs' was a Mojo magazine Folk Album Of The Year, 2022
9/10 – Uncut magazine
5/5 – RNR magazine
5/5 – New Internationalist
9/10 – Americana UK
"A gift and landmark folk album" – Folkradio.co.uk
"The most anticipated folk album of the year. A triumph" – Tradfolk

Track, 'Black John,' features on Uncut's Jan issue Topic Records covermount CD

Artist is out on tour in March 2024 and throughout the rest of the year, with a new album forthcoming in the Autumn.

2024 is the 85th anniversary of Topic Records, the oldest independent record label in the world.

Tracks: Interlude - Some Terrible Habits / Unknown African Boy (d.1830) / Black John / Interlude - These Little Ones / The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy / Mad-Haired Moll O'Bedlam / Interlude - Nobody Round Here Likes It / The Hand Of Fanny Johnson / Cinnamon Water / Hide Yourself / Cruel Mother Country / Interlude - In The Village / The Flames They Do Grow High / Interlude - Need Not Apply / Go Home / Slave No More