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Greg Russell
12+ albums
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Greg Russell (born 1993) is a British folk singer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bouzouki, banjo). In 2013 he won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and in 2014 won the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award (alongside Ciaran Algar) as one-half of Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar. His debut solo album, "Inclined to be Red", was released in 2017. During 2016, Russell was involved in two critically acclaimed projects, "The Transports" and "Shake the Chains" (the latter being put together and artistically directed by Russell and which included Peggy Seeger, Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr, Leon Rosselson and many more). His debut solo album, "Inclined to be Red", released in 2017, featured guest musicians Archie Churchill-Moss (of Moore Moss Rutter) on melodeon and Tim Yates (of Blackbeard's Tea Party) on double bass. 2019 saw the release and tour of Field & Dyke, a songwriting project that came out of an oral history project about 21st Century Britain conducted by musician and historian Danny Pedler. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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albums
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The Queen's Lover
The Silent Majority
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The Call
Utopia and Wasteland
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BBC Folk Awards 2014
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Inclined to be red
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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
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The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions: Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
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The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions 2013
Make A Fool Out Of Me
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Song Of Denver, Vol.1.
The Journey Continues