From here - English folk field recordings

"A set of 17 intimate performances, many of them unaccompanied vocals, that attest to the simplicity, narrative drive and tenderness of folk craft. There are assured pieces from stalwarts Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, bravura outings from Lisa Knapp and Bella Hardy, and regional accents such as Stew Simpson's Geordie coalminer and Nicola Kearey's music hall cockney. Sam Lee's Wild Rover steals the show, revealing the sadness beneath what is usually a pub yell-along".

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"The idea of "From Here" (ask a bunch of folk singers and musicians to perform something personally meaningful from their repertoire) is very simple, but the results are startling effective. Stew Simpson (Hadrian's Union) belts out Ed Pickford's "A Cud Hew" in an a cappella style best described as "bloody exciting", while Bella Hardy, accompanied solely by her own sparse fiddle, is utterly captivating. The stories behind the artists' selections are fascinating and revealing. Jack Sharp (Wolf People) confesses that he "used to hate country dancing and all that", but subsequently discovered his local song "Bedfordshire May Carol" after hearing it on a Shirley Collins record ... "From Here" succeeds both as a brilliant compilation of top-notch performers and perhaps to prompt a timely appraisal of the state of the folk nation".