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Green Ribbons

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1.	The Well Below The Valley 04:17	info	buy track
2.	Green Ribbons 03:37	info	buy track
3.	My Geordie, Oh 03:08	info	buy track
4.	The Week Before Easter 02:13	info	buy track
5.	Jeannie Jenkins 01:04	info	buy track
6.	Garden Song 04:23	info	buy track
7.	Heathery Hills 03:50	info	buy track
8.	Ima Nema 00:55	info	buy track
9.	Sea Snake Island 04:52	lyrics	buy track
Vocals: Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong, Alasdair Roberts, Jinnwoo
10.	Here's A Health Unto All True Lovers 04:32	info	buy track
11.	A Question 03:07	info	buy track
12.	Softly Spoken Man 02:33	info	buy track
13.	Lady Margaret 04:49	info	buy track

about

Green Ribbons is a project dedicated to the celebration of unaccompanied song. The current line-up features Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen), Frankie Armstrong, Alasdair Roberts and Benjamin “Jinnwoo” Webb (Jinnwoo, Bird in the Belly). Their debut release is an intimate collection of traditional and newly composed songs. Recorded live at Studio 95 in Brighton by engineer Tom Pryor, GREEN RIBBONS sees each artist featured solo, in duet and in full ensemble. Ben “Jinnwoo” Webb brought the project together in July of 2018:

“Very broadly speaking, unaccompanied singing seems to have gone out of fashion in more recent years – but it’s always something I have enjoyed performing and listening to when I’ve had the chance. I wanted to get a group together whose voices I feel really lend themselves to storytelling, and focus purely on the voice and the stories. We wanted to make something very rough around the edges and unpolished, a kind of documented swapping of songs…”

Of the track that gives its name to the project and album, he says:

“I found these words in the Bodleian Archive and set them to my own melody. Green Ribbons were used to label people as ‘insane’ in the 1800s. I enjoyed the historical reference to mental health, a subject which features in some of my own writing. I liked, too, the directness of the lyric.”

“restoring the voice to its rightful place at the epicentre of folk storytelling” - The Living Tradition

TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2019 - Folk Radio UK

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released March 19, 2020

Vocals: Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong, Alasdair Roberts, Jinnwoo

Recorded July 2018 at Studio 95, Brighton. Engineered & Mixed by Tom Pryor
Mastered & Cut by Frédéric Alstadt at Ångström Studio, Brussels

Artwork by Jinnwoo

Thanks:
Debbie: Thanks to Ponyo; Kyle and Alex for their endless love and feedback; Gervase for putting me up; all at the Bow Street Runner for making Brighton the best and most beautiful.
Frankie: Thanks to Ben for inviting me to join the project, to Tom for his studio and expertise as the recording engineer, to Debbie and Alasdair - to them for all their support and to Ponyo for his furry presence. Also to Ann and Alan Dale for their hospitality during the recording
Jinnwoo: Everything I do is for my dad. Thanks to Gervase French for teaching me about plants, and buildings, and birds, and drinking (and and and); Siobhan Begley for sending me notebooks and pens in the post; Hickory Signals and Bird in the Belly for letting me try out new songs on them and listening to my chronic anxiety; Pam Thompson; The Bow Street Runner; Pigeons; Cereal; God; Prescriptions; Documentaries about the things people get up to in their retirement; Ponyo the studio cat
Alasdair: Thanks to Ben, Debbie and Frankie for their company in song; to Tom and Ponyo for their studio cool; To Gervase for his hospitality; to Elle Osborne for pebbly times on the seafront; to Dave Broom for the whisky and all the whisky knowledge; to Cedric D'hondt for his patience and support.

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