LIMITED 180g VINYL EDITION. 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize - An "Album Of The Year" nominee. North Londoner Lee was a visual artist, occasional burlesque dancer and teacher of wilderness survival skills before he turned his hand to folk music. From 2006 to 2009 Sam was "adopted" by the late ballad singer and storyteller Stanley Robertson as his musical "next of kin". In 2009, he won the Arts Foundation Award for folk music for his "unparalleled insight into traveller musical heritage" as "one of the current leading lights of the folk revival". His debut album, released in June, sees him re-interpret eight traditional folk songs drawn from across the British Isles, a number of them from gypsy and traveller communities. Announcing his Mercury nomination, the judges saluted the "unadorned singing" and "adventurous instrumentation" that made up what they described as "an album of singular charm and beauty".
