Listen to East Virginia Blues by Ewan D. Rodgers from the forthcoming album Tomorrow Might Be Monday (Folk Police Recordings 2011)

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Ewan D. Rodgers was brought up in a small Yorkshire town and currently lives in Brighton where he has been performing regularly for the past year. Before venturing to the south Ewan was involved in the Leeds folk-music scene playing banjo for the ceilidh band Pretty Polly's Beard, providing guitar, vocals and kazoo for The Thirty Minute Skiffle Hour and playing countless solo gigs in and around West Yorkshire.In addition to his guitar, Ewan has performed and recorded with his 5-string banjo and diatonic accordion as well as dabbling from time to time with an old mountain dulcimer and a not-so-old ukelele. Ewan lists British folk and blues players such as Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and Nic Jones as his main musical influences: however a closer listen to his music reveals influences from as far away as the Appalachian Mountains, the sheep-stations of New South Wales and the Shtetls of old Eastern Europe. From Ewan's live performances you can expect stripped-down folk and blues, old-time banjo and the odd disgruntled sounding rag.

Recorded during 2009, Ewan's self-released debut album From Hull, Halifax and Hell was Ewan’s first venture into the studio and features Ewan’s interpretation of a number of mainly traditional songs performed on guitar and banjo. The album was rated amongst Maverick Magazine’s top 10 albums of 2010 and was described by FATEA Magazine as ‘containing a good deal of working class grit’. Ewan’s musical interests have continued to develop: his forthcoming album Tomorrow Might be Monday includes several original compositions as well as re-interpretations of traditional French and Eastern European folk songs performed on Diatonic Accordion, guitar and musical saw.

Tomorrow Might be Monday will be released by Folk Police Recordings later this year