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Magna Carta’s prog-infused folk has been an almost ever present fixture of the music scene for over 50 years. Founder member singer/songwriter Chris Simpson talks to Jason Barnard about their new anthology ‘When All Is Said And Done’ and the group’s history.
How did you choose the material that features in ‘When All Is Said And Done’?
It was in my heart and soul from day one up on the hilltop in the Yorkshire Dales and when it is all around you and you are a child of the seasons it fits in like a hand in a glove. All I had to do was look around me and there it was.
You grew up in up in the Yorkshire dales. What music were you exposed to growing up?
Whatever came out of the battery radio. Apart from books, which I adore (I believed that when the old man came back from Uncle John’s corn mill near Harrogate, with new batteries, I wondered how the BBC got the programmes in the radio). Gus Goodwin on Luxembourg fading in and out hit us with Elvis; Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran and Sun records. Read on
Magna Carta on Repertoire Records
