Steve Tilston & Friends

As seen on Later with Jools Holland and BBC Four Songwriters’ Circle BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner, Best Original Song for The Reckoning Inspiration for Hollywood movie Danny Collins starring Al Pacino One of the UKs finest singer/songwriter/guitarists on fine form

Perhaps best known for his song-writing prowess, Steve Tilston is also a dazzling guitarist drawing from folk, blues, jazz and classical to create a sound that is recognisably Tilston.

Flesh all that out with Bristol music scene stalwart and harmonica maestro Keith Warmington, regular Yorkshire sideman Hugh Bradley on double bass and ace jazz drummer Tony Orrell on percussion and you can expect something very special indeed.

Celebrating the new album release ‘Last Call’

So, here, we have it: Steve Tilston’s last album, over half a century on from his first, Acoustic Confusion, and on a par with his finest. With the empathetic accompaniment of good friends and long-term musical collaborators, Steve looks both back and ahead as he traverses the musical spectrum from social and political comment to rustic reflection, from autobiography to eternal geographical history, across blues, traditional folk, poetry and even a hint of jazz.

 It’s a thing of audible joy and circumstantial sadness.

For a final album, this gives a Tilston fan everything they could wish for – the majestic natural epic Time and Tide, the evanescent moving intimacy of No Tears to Spare, the endless fresh springtime stand-off of Sweet Primroses, in which Steve reminds us that he is not only a great writer of songs (just ask Fairport Convention), also a great song interpreter too, setting this most familiar sample of the folk repertoire against a baroque string quartet.