I’ve been addicted to Andy Whittle’s music for a couple months now, thanks to the enlightened opinion of my fellow Ray LaMontagne messenger and blog contributor : Martin.
I’ve bought both of Andy Whittle’s albums this summer and his songs are still looping in my tunes library. His music has already become part of my collection of old classics such as ‘Recent songs’ from L. Cohen.
His two singles - ‘Old Fashioned Dream’ in 2006 and ‘A Songmaker’s Tale’ in may 2007 - revealed a complete artist with a mature songwriting capability (25 years old) and a multi-instrumental player. Andy was originally trained in classical music, a career as a concert pianist beckoned in his teens until his piano teacher forbade him from playing his own compositions…
Find below a track from each of his albums.
I invite you to check Andy’s label, Folkwit record for great English folk artists . Sign their mailing list by clicking the following link - they will also give you the chance to receive a free sampler album : subscribe@folkwit.biz ! Enjoy.
Artist : Andy Whittle
Label : Folkwit Records
Folks : Ola Podrida, Colby Stead, James Yorkston
Nice review about Whittle at You Crazy Dreamers! I love your write ups.
Great great songwriter who deserves all the attention he can get.Pretty much unknown outside of Nottingham but hopefully that will change in the near future. It’s criminal that such a great songwriter Like Andy is not at the forefront of the Folk genre. Great Musician and a great story teller, i’m sure this post will be updated at various times the bigger Andy becomes. Old fashioned dream was in my top five albums of last year by anyone in any genre.An absolute must have album.