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MARTIN SIMPSON

ROOTED

Topic Records

A new album from virtuoso Martin Simpson is always a major event. “The songs embrace nature and travel, mental health, real life, loss, politics and history…” he tells us. “Threads that that bind all this together can be followed back a long way, to 1965 when I got my first guitar and started to soak up material and ideas at a very rapid rate.” Available in both standard and deluxe formats – the latter comes with a second CD of instrumentals – Rooted comprises 13 tracks played sublimely on an eclectic collection of instruments

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