Rachael McShane & The Cartographers
Release Date: 10 August 2018
Label: Topic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 714822005968
Genres: Folk English Folk
Description
Brand new album (her first since 2009) from former Bellowhead string player/singer, Rachael McShane sees her reworking traditional songs with a new band, The Cartographers, featuring guitarist Matthew Ord (Assembly Lane) and melodeon player Julian Sutton (Kathryn Tickell, Sting).
Best known as an original member of folk big band Bellowhead, who recorded 5 studio albums and won a total of 8 BBC Folk Awards in their 12 years together. Rachael's first solo album 'No Man's Fool' was released on Navigator Records in 2009 though she has more recently been singing the role of Susannah Holmes in an acclaimed new adaptation of The Transports alongside The Young'uns, Faustus, Nancy Kerr, Greg Russell and Matthew Crampton.
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers are a brand new signing to Topic Records, the oldest independent label in the world, on the eve of its 80th anniversary.
Tracklisting
Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
Angeline Morrison
The Watersons
Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman, Jack Rutter
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
Anne Briggs
Martin Simpson
Fay Hield
Eliza Carthy & Ben Seal
Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly
The Home Service
Nick Harper
Banter
Mat Green & Andy Turner
Leon Rosselson
Various Artists
