News flash - A Minstrel Came Out of the Meadow

To celebrate the release of "Songs from the Black Meadow" I am going to publish a newly discovered ballad called "A Minstrel Came Out of the Meadow" - you will hear extracts from it in the next "Garden of Earthly delights" mix which will also include tracks by every artist on the forthcoming album.

You can see from the wordle diagram below (that takes the most repeated words from this ballad (written in the mid 19th Century)) that music is clearly a recurring theme...