Spiers and Boden

Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays melodeon and concertina, while Jon Boden sings and plays fiddle and guitar while stamping the rhythm on a stomp box.[1] Spiers and Boden were founding members of the folk band Bellowhead.[2]

Spiers and Boden
Background information
GenresFolk music
InstrumentsSqueezeboxes, fiddle, guitar, vocals
Years active1999–2014; 2020–present
LabelsVarious
MembersJohn Spiers, Jon Boden
Websitewww.spiersandboden.com

Biography

They began playing together in 1999 and their first album as a duo was Through & Through (2001).[3] In 2002 they were both session musicians on Eliza Carthy's album Anglicana,[4] and toured with her as part of her band The Ratcatchers.[5] However it was their second album, Bellow, in 2003 that drew significant attention. The tunes and songs were mostly traditional, grounded in the Morris tradition. In the same year they won the "Horizon Award" in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards,[6] followed by the "Best Duo" [7] category in 2004. Together they play fiddle, guitar, assorted squeezebox instruments, a stomp box and they both sing – a combination which sounds like a two-man-one-man-band

An album called simply Tunes came out in summer 2005 and another, Songs, followed in October of the same year. Their fifth album, Vagabond, was released in 2008.

The Works was released on 11 July 2011. It's an album of re-recorded tracks from their 5 albums made as a duo. The album features a number of special guests, including: Fay Hield, James Fagan, Nancy Kerr, Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson and Eliza Carthy.[8][9]

In October 2013, they announced that their 2014 tour would be their last "for the foreseeable future".[10]

In August 2020, Spiers and Boden announced that they would be playing together as a duo again.[11] They performed for the online Folk On Foot festival.

Discography

Spiers and Boden

Bellowhead

Eliza Carthy and The Ratcatchers
  • Anglicana (2002)
  • Rough Music (2005)

Ian Giles, John Spiers, Jon Boden and Graham Metcalfe

Jon Boden, Joey Oliver, John Spiers and Ian Giles
  • Old Irish Jigs and Reels (2007)

Ian Giles, John Spiers, Jon Boden and Giles Lewin
  • Wassail - A Country Christmas (also released as An English Folk Christmas (2003)

References
  1. "Spiers & Boden: The Works". mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. "'Folk has a new sex appeal'". theguardian.com. 18 September 2008. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. "Spiers & Boden - Farewell Tour". folkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. "Eliza Carthy – Anglicana". topicrecords.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  5. "Eliza Carthy and the Ratcatchers". theguardian.com. 8 April 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  6. "BBC - Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2004 - John Spiers and Jon Boden". Bbc.co.uk.
  7. "Best duo". Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2007.
  8. "BBC - Music - Review of Spiers & Boden - The Works". BBC.co.uk.
  9. "Spiers & Boden: The Works". mainlynorfolk.info.
  10. "Spiers & Boden – Farewell Tour". folkradio.co.uk.
  11. "Spiers & Boden". spiersandboden.com. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
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