Ground Of Its Own

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Cat No: TNCR001LP

Release Date: 25 June 2012

Label: Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5052442001911

Genres: Folk

Release Date: 18 February 2013

Label: Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5052442003793

Genres: Folk

Release Date: 03 July 2023

Label: Cooking Vinyl Limited / Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 711297539523

Genres: Folk

Description
"Ground Of Its Own" is the Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominated and striking debut release by Sam Lee, a young musician who is busy forging a unique path in the future of folk song.

'Ground of Its Own' is an 8-track release (produced by Gerry Diver and with mixes by John Wood, of Nick Drake fame) comprising traditional material, largely discovered through Sam's years of dogged research and exploration of often long forgotten songs. Not content to learn only from books or records, Sam has sourced most of his material direct from English Gypsy and Irish and Scottish traveller communities

This versatile, pioneering, charismatic, provocateur has created a memorable album of depth and vitality.

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LIMITED 180g VINYL EDITION.

2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize - An "Album Of The Year" nominee.

North Londoner Lee was a visual artist, occasional burlesque dancer and teacher of wilderness survival skills before he turned his hand to folk music.
From 2006 to 2009 Sam was "adopted" by the late ballad singer and storyteller Stanley Robertson as his musical "next of kin".

In 2009, he won the Arts Foundation Award for folk music for his "unparalleled insight into traveller musical heritage" as "one of the current leading lights of the folk revival".

His debut album, released in June, sees him re-interpret eight traditional folk songs drawn from across the British Isles, a number of them from gypsy and traveller communities.

Announcing his Mercury nomination, the judges saluted the "unadorned singing" and "adventurous instrumentation" that made up what they described as "an album of singular charm and beauty".
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