| rdfs:comment
| - Peel discovered June Tabor when Tim Hart, member of Steeleye Span, was due to perform a session for his show with his usual singing partner and fellow Steeleye member Maddy Prior in 1975 (Hart and Prior had already done previous sessions for Peel, beginning on Night Ride in 1969). However, she had a sore throat and Tim Hart decided to call June Tabor, who he knew from her work with other folk artists, to invite her to perform with him. After the session was performed, Peel said he very much liked her voice and, once she had begun her solo recording career with Topic Records, played her music regularly on his shows. He was impressed by her 1976 debut album, Airs and Graces, particularly the track "The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'", which he played repeatedly. Tabor recorded a total of sev
|
| abstract
| - Peel discovered June Tabor when Tim Hart, member of Steeleye Span, was due to perform a session for his show with his usual singing partner and fellow Steeleye member Maddy Prior in 1975 (Hart and Prior had already done previous sessions for Peel, beginning on Night Ride in 1969). However, she had a sore throat and Tim Hart decided to call June Tabor, who he knew from her work with other folk artists, to invite her to perform with him. After the session was performed, Peel said he very much liked her voice and, once she had begun her solo recording career with Topic Records, played her music regularly on his shows. He was impressed by her 1976 debut album, Airs and Graces, particularly the track "The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'", which he played repeatedly. Tabor recorded a total of seven sessions, including one with Maddy Prior in September 1975 and another with the Oyster Band in November 1990. Tabor holds one of the Longest Gaps Between Peel Session Appearances from 1978 to 1990. In 1977, Peel nominated her track 'No Man's Land', as one of his favourite songs of the year in his own Festive Fifty. After the 90's, Peel rarely played Tabor's subsequent music, but by then she had become a regular on Andy Kershaw's shows. (Her final Kershaw session was on what turned out to be the last of the DJ's weekly shows for Radio 3, on 14 May 2007.) Nonetheless, she praised Peel and producer John Walters for allowing her to sing whatever she wanted on her Peel sessions, in contrast to the producers of Radio 2's specialist folk programmes. She also expressed her admiration and gratitude to Peel for including her work among his music collection, when interviewed for the John Peel Archive in 2013.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)