What Folk Music Continues To Do For nearly seventeen years now, Joseph Porter has been performing his songs as frontman with Blyth Power, a band so unique they defy classification, but for whom critical acclaim has never been less than rapturous. Now Joseph is performing acoustic solo sets in the interests of reaching those venues and audiences geared to something a little more reflective than a band described by a leading roots orientated publication as making The Levellers sound by comparison like Peter Paul and Mary. Performing a collection of songs largely unrecorded by the band, Joseph reflects upon historical indiscretions ranging from the fall of Troy, and the truculence of an unrepentant Helen, to the abdication of Edward VIII and the gleeful chants of his equerries as they invite him to clear out his desk and leave them the keys to his rooms. John Betjeman's coming out party.
Folk music is all about telling stories.