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The man for all folk seasons
BEVIS MILLER recommends a two-volume biography of the man at the heart of Topic Records, the legendary independent record label
Bill Leader at WMA, Bishops Bridge Road, late 50s
[Matador]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Sounding the Century: Bill Leader & Co
1 Glimpses of far off things: 1855-1956
and
2 Horizons For Some 1956-1962
by Mike Butler
Matador, £19.99 and £15.54 respectively
BILL LEADER was the recording engineer and general factotum for Topic Records the longest lasting independent British record label spanning 70 years.
In recognition he was awarded in 2012 both the gold badge of the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the BBC2 Folk Good Tradition Award.
His discography covers 1955 to 2013 and includes artists such as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peggy Seeger, Bert Jansch, The Dubliners, The Watersons, Billy Connolly, Pentangle, Christy Moore, Mike Harding, Dick Gaughan and many more.
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