Jon Wilks Posts

Here we go, then! Gearing up for my first big outing of 2020. I’ll be hitting all the places linked below, so make sure you…

I love traditional folk songs that are linked to specific place. For the last 18 months I’ve been playing songs from Birmingham, as it was…

As promised, here’s some background to ‘The Trial of Bill Burn Under Martin’s Act’. Unfortunately, there’s not nearly as much info here as there was…

Part of the fascination I have for traditional folk songs is the way in which they humble the singer. As a singer/songwriter, I spent years…

On June 9th, I took the Midlife songs back to Brum. Performing at Kitchen Garden Cafe, I was delighted to see folk writer and presenter,…

‘Poverty Knock’ is nothing short of a classic. I first heard it while painstakingly trying to pick it out on a piano, struggling to read…

The second song on the digi-single I released this month is a weird little thing from Hartlepool. Who Hung The Monkey deals with the tale of the monkey…

Yep, you read that title correctly. I remember sitting in the library at Cecil Sharp House with a friend of mine, back when I started…