Marry Waterson, David A Jaycock

Part of the great Waterson dynasty, Marry Waterson has the family gift for story-telling and a warm, characterful voice heard on two solo albums and many appearances with other artists. Her latest collaboration, with Cornish guitarist and composer David A Jaycock, taps into his dreamlike, surreal and dark world with fascinating results.

The new album, Two Wolves, was recorded in May 2015 and produced by guitarist Neill MacColl and multi-instrumentalist and arranger Kate St. John.

The songs themselves cover a wide range of subject material from laments about disappearing village communities (Hoping To Be Saved) to the title track’s reflection on the duality of human nature.

Two songs explicitly acknowledge the Waterson legacy: The words to The Honey and the Seaweed are fashioned from an original Lal Waterson lyric, written out of love for her friend and co-writer Christine Collins and set down in the late 60’s in a book containing early Bright Phoebus songs. Velvet Yeller meanwhile utilizes Mike Waterson’s recording of Tam Lin to startling effect.

‘I got to ‘sing’ with him one more time by weaving him into this tribute, which he read before he died,’ says Marry of the song.