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Artist: Jon Wilks

Album: Up The Cut (independent)

Jon Wilks is a folk singer from the Black Country, whose most recent album,, takes traditional songs from his native land and arranges them for acoustic guitar. Minimalist maybe, but Jon’s playing can be complex, fleshing out the song’s melody with technical flourishes, as he demonstrated on his most recent tour. “The live arrangements haven’t changed much from the album,” he tells us, “but the more you

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