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A year of folk songs with Bellowhead's Jon Boden

The best folk and acoustic music. Jon Boden shares songs for every season.

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Singer Jon Boden talks us through his new book, A Folk Song a Day. The collection of 365 traditional songs has its origins in Jon's 2010 project of the same name, in which he released one song every day for a year.

Now the collection is available as a book, Jon talks about what the songs and the process meant to him.

Jon also chats about his big band, Bellowhead, which returns for a UK tour in November.

Produced by Pomona Audio in Salford for BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Christy Moore

    My Little Honda 50

    • Folk Tale.
    • Sony Music.

  • Alana Henderson

    Not Going Anywhere

    • Fine.

  • Hamish Napier

    Passes (The Drove Roads / Làirig )

    • The Hill.
    • Strathspey Records.

  • Breabach

    Hold the Line (feat. Darius Rucker)

  • Lavinia Blackwall

    Time Will Forget

  • Jon Boden

    Bay of Biscay

    • A Folk Song a Day: October.
    • Digital album.

  • Bellowhead

    Rigs of the Time

    • Burlesque.
    • Westpark Music.

  • Sam Sweeney & Grace Smith

    Dawning of the Day

    • Morning of May.
    • Hudson Records.

  • Lal & Mike Waterson & Bob Davenport

    Child Among the Weeds

    • Bright Phoebus.

  • Bob Davenport

    Navvy Boots

    • Down the Long Road.
    • Topic Records.

  • Eddi Reader

    Patience of Angels

    • Eddi Reader.
    • Blanco Y Negro.

Broadcast

  • Wednesday21:00
    BBC Radio 2