CPI Archive 2009: Folk music is officially back, and this time it’s folk with an English accent. Andrew Hamilton chats to Marcus Mumford from London four-piece Mumford and Son - leaders of this new folk revival.
The night a 17-year-girl from Hampshire can breeze onto the set of Jools Holland and leave everyone open-mouthed, you know it’s time to take notice. So when Laura Marling did exactly that, while singing folk songs that her grandparents might have thought a little old-fashioned, it was a clear sign of something very big just over the horizon. Playing drums for Marling that night was Marcus Mumford. Scarcely out of his teens himself, Mumford would soon find his own place in the British folk revival. Borrowing heavily from the sounds of the American south, Mumford and Sons have created a new take on folk music from this part of the world. “Because there are four of us, we all have lots of influences, there isn’t just one thing. Like Ted, the bass player really loves blues. I really like lot of everything from old soul stuff to gospel music, bluegrass and country. I guess the sound came from a combination of four guys who really loved their music and loved their instruments and wanted to explore the sounds. We all had a shared love for country music and folk singer-songwriters. It really is a big old melting pot,” said Marcus.
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