Tag: As The New Day Follows Night

Steve Tilston Releases his final album Last Call today, 7th March, more than 50 years after releasing his debut.  

50 years plus on from his debut his final album is as good as anything from his extensive back catalogue and is a fitting way to bow out.  

 2025 and so, here, we have it: Steve Tilston’s last album, over half a century on from his first, Acoustic Confusion, and on a par with his finest. With the empathetic accompaniment of good friends and long-term musical collaborators, Steve looks both back and ahead as he traverses the musical spectrum from social and political comment to rustic reflection, from autobiography to eternal geographical history, across blues, traditional folk, poetry and even a hint of jazz. It’s a thing of audible joy and circumstantial sadness. 

Like so much of Steve’s output in a long recording career, the music herein is of its time and still timeless, a section cut through the moment that combines content and context. For a final album, this gives a Tilston fan everything they could wish for – the majestic natural epic ‘Time And Tide’, the evanescent moving intimacy of ‘No Tears To Spare’, the endless fresh springtime stand-off of ‘Sweet Primroses’, in which Steve reminds us that he is not only a great writer of songs (just ask Fairport Convention), also a great song interpreter too, setting this most familiar sample of the folk repertoire against a baroque string quartet. 

And so it goes…The title track, a song without words, Last Call allows us to marvel at the mastery of a guitar maestro, five and half minutes packed with acoustic allusion and self-reflection, a fitting fretwork farewell. 

Artist’s website: https://www.stevetilston.com/

‘As The New Day Follows Night’ – live: