Graham Irwin: my music; folk songs - traditional and contemporary>

I guess all songs is folk songs. Leastwise, I ain’t never heard no horse sing ’em. Big Bill Broonzy

I am producing booklets with the words, melody lines and chords for some of the songs I have recorded, and some I have not (?yet) recorded. Here is the first: Songbook 1.

I have also developed a simple script to aid transposing chord sequences for songs and tunes. You can try it here.

Graham Irwin: My music

I have uploaded over 200 videos of my music to my Youtube channel.

My musical taste is mostly, but not exclusively, British and Irish folk, both traditional and contemporary. Over the years I have received inspiration from Shirley and Dolly Collins, Steeleye Span, Ian Campbell, John Conolly, The Albion Band, Fairport Convention, Strawhead, Martin Carthy and many others.

I have also created music tracks for meditation, relaxation, massage, yoga and therapy, as well as some electronic pieces. These are included on my YouTube channel, too.

More recently I have composed a few "contemporary classical" pieces, including an arietta, a toccata and a fantasia. Sheet music is available to download for Fantasia Per La Pace and Sunset Variation.

Love, Lust & Loss

I also have an album: Love, Lust & Loss which is available to download and stream at Bandcamp, and as a CD or vinyl album from elasticStage. See here for more details and how to buy Love, Lust & Loss.

A Song-Story

I have also taken a shot at recreating Shirley and Dolly Collins's "A Song-Story" from their 1969 album Anthems in Eden, using my own recordings. It is a playlist on Youtube: A Song Story.

The tracks are:

A Beginning (A Beginning)
A Meeting (Searching For Lambs)
A Courtship (Come Write Me Down aka The Wedding Song)
A Denying (The Blacksmith)
A Forsaking (Our Captain Cried)
A Dream (Lowlands Away)
A Leave-taking (Pleasant And Delightful)
An Awakening (Whitsun Dance)
A New Beginning (The Staines Morris)

I substituted my own composition A Beginning as the first track. All songs are traditional except track 1 (yours truly) and track 8 (words by Austin John Marshall, Shirley Collin's one-time husband, tune traditional).