Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith: Night Hours review – powerful storytelling folk

(Fellside)To be a great folk singer, you have to be a great storyteller, as Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith are clearly aware. Their second album is a selection of new songs and traditionals that is held together by the power of the stories, with an emphasis on the struggles of the working man (or woman). The duo are both fine singers and multi-instrumentalists, with Aldridge concentrating on banjo and Goldsmith on guitar, helped by the fiddle, accordion and pipes of excellent folk trio Teyr. T