Ink of the rosy morning : a sampling of folk songs from Britain and North America

"An artfully executed, stripped back but still enchanting collection of traditional folk songs ... Indeed, there aren't many positives from the pandemic, but one thing it taught us was the importance of reconnecting to the simple beauty around us ... Let's hope that Sanders and Savage take this relaxed method of recording that led to such lovely results with them in the years to come - a little light from the dark days that showed us more about ourselves and the beauty in the uncomplicated".

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"Beautifully unadorned and empathetic meeting of folkie minds".

"Top of the world" - "Like a number of albums released this year, the root story behind the Cambridge duo's debut for Topic Records is wrapped up in the 2020 lockdown (...), from which this luminous, arrestingly beautiful set of mainly traditional folk songs emerges. Recorded simply and sparely in an old schoolhouse in Hastings, they lit a fire in the dining room, opened some wine, set up a few mics and started playing. They'd already had a third album ready to roll. They rolled that into the long grass, and with nothing pre-arranged - and with no thought of releasing the subsequent performances - they set down this quietly intimate set ... A line from the outstanding 'When First I Came to Caledonia' provides the album title, and their performance is a close match in emotive force to the otherwise peerless version from the late Norma Waterson. Instrumentally, it's spare, lyrical and intimate, their solo and harmonised vocals bringing each of these songs back home".