My association with Peter Twitchett goes back some thirty odd years…some of them very odd…and my personal folk music education owes a lot to this sensitive balladeer whom I’m pleased to say that in all this time nothing has changed in his performance or presentation. Very much a positive thing in my opinion. Some things are best left untouched by the ravages of modern times and Peter is one of them. He is a softly spoken but gentle advocate of this music we have all grown to love and his choice of songs, as ever, hit the spot just right backing himself on his trusty old Gibson gut-strung guitar. To me it was always the mark of someone special who could transport the listener from the frantic urban sounds of Croydon (where I originally met him) to the rural setting of say Norfolk where he is now based. In this respect Peter does not disappoint and through a selection of self-penned songs including “Swifts And Swallows” and “Grandfather Was A Fiddler” through to traditional ballads he conveys a timeless quality that unfortunately is rarely heard these days. I’m told there is no room for sentimentality in these austere times we now live in but if you get a chance give this album a spin it’s the nearest I’ve come to settling comfortably with my slippers on in front of the telly watching “Lark Rise To Candleford”.
PETE FYFE
Artist website: www.twitchett.me.uk/PeteTwitchett.htm
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