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SUMMARY:Chris Wood
LOCATION:Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe
DESCRIPTION:- Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals h
 is love for the un-official history of the English speaking people. With g
 entle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parab
 les.A self-taught musician\, composer and song writer\, Chris is a lifelon
 g autodidact whose independent streak shines through everything he does. A
 lways direct and unafraid to speak his mind\, his song writing has been pr
 aised for its surgical clarity. He cites his major influence as “Anon”
 .His most recent album So Much to Defend has received wide critical acclai
 m and includes reflections on minor league football\, empty nest syndrome\
 , learning to swim\, Cook-in Sauce and\, not least\, the Gecko as a metaph
 or for contemporary society.Hollow Point\; his chilling ballad of the shoo
 ting of Jean Charles Menezez\, won a BBC Folk Award (he's won six.) and em
 phatically secured Wood’s place as a serious speech-master for the unoff
 icial history of England.Collaborators include Martin Carthy\, Dizraeli\, 
 Billy Bragg\, Andy Cutting\, Andy Irvine\, Karine Polwart\, Jean Francois 
 Vrod\, The Imagined Village\, Hugh Lupton\, Martin Butler and many others.
 On stage Chris has the air of a craftsman who no longer needs to be precio
 us about his art. Without any apparent effort he reaches deep into an envi
 able repertoire of songs before revealing another gem.“Chris Wood might 
 be the Ken Loach of song writing. Very political\, but at the same time fu
 ll of compassion\, and he grows sharper and more acute with each passing a
 lbum. He’s good\, quite probably the very best we have today\, and we ne
 ed him more than ever.” (fRoots).“Nobody comes even close to equalling
  his bird’s-eye-view.” (The Irish Times). “As close as it gets to a 
 perfect union of voice and guitar\, lyrics and melody\, compassion\, irony
 \, realism\, wit\, and humanity.” (The Herald).“Chris takes a traditio
 nal song and has you absolutely gripped…. He makes it really obvious why
  it is of contemporary relevance. On the flip side\, he has managed this m
 agical thing\, writing songs on contemporary themes\, or putting music to 
 Hugh Lupton’s words\, that absolutely fit hand in glove with traditional
  songs\, but are totally modern.” (Ian Anderson - fRoots Magazine).\n\nB
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