The spark to seek out this masterful record was a grainy black-and-white film about The Watersons called Travelling for a Living, directed by Derrick Knight. The 1966 film made a lasting and deep ...

Compare the column inches devoted to the death of Maurice Gibb last year to that of Lal Waterson five years ago. We all knew about the former; the fact that the latter went by virtually unreported ...

For forty years - so far - two adjectives could always be applied, safely, to one of England's seminal groups: "vocal" & "English". The Watersons are a family band: members are Watersons, their ...

Incessant sleigh bells? Head-bopping tempo? Seven music writers pick their all-time favourite festive bangers As festive bangers go, Low’s Just Like Christmas is the sparkly stocking with a lump of ...

Mike Waterson, a founding member of influential English folk act the Watersons, died June 21 at a hospice in Scarborough, England, after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 70. The Watersons — ...

When I think of seasonal songs, I don’t think about The Watersons’ Frost And Fire straightaway. I think of ‘The Scarecrow’, a song from the extraordinary album they released seven years later, Bright ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

In terms of sheer imaginative rethinking, the Watersons were the most inspiring, musically original and culturally defining group to shape the English folk-music scene. Even though some bright spark's ...

UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 01: Photo of Lal WATERSON and Mike WATERSON and Norma WATERSON and WATERSONS; Group portrait - L-R Lal Waterson, cousin John Harrison, Mike and Norma Waterson in Hull (Photo ...

With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England. By Jim Farber Norma Waterson, a vaunted fixture in ...