With the state title three-peat complete, courtesy of a thrilling 21-14 win over Salem in the Class 4 championship game on Dec. 9, Phoebus football is back. All the way back. It would be ...

When Lal and Mike Waterson turned away from the traditional singing of The Watersons to the rag-and-bone shop eclecticism of Bright Phoebus, the 1970s folk commissars disapproved. The album fell into ...

With this Domino reissue, Lal and Mike Waterson's 1972 album Bright Phoebus seems to be finally receiving the recognition that it deserved all along. Called their folk-noir masterpiece and compared to ...

Donald Gatling wore blue-framed sunglasses for his postgame interview. The sun had long since vanished behind the horizon, but Phoebus’ stars shone bright enough to warrant shades. Gatling returned ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1972, with their family singing group on hiatus, Lal Waterson and her brother Mike recorded an album, Bright ...

FIRST released in 1972 but shoddily pressed and soon withdrawn, Bright Phoebus, an album of extraordinary songs by Lal and Mike Waterson of the English folk dynasty, gained fabled status as a lost ...

This 12-strong collection of songs dusted with eldritch magic has languished in the dungeons of folk music ever since its release in 1972, the victim of a bankrupt label and neglect. But the potency ...

An image that will endure from the Class 4 state championship game for Phoebus football coach Jeremy Blunt was his captains — Markus Hopson, Brenden Thompson, Davion Roberts and Kaleb Tillery — ...

For around four decades a Yorkshire family - THE WATERSONS - have been leaders in the ongoing revival of English traditional song. Thirty years ago, two of them - MIKE and LAL WATERSON - made an ...

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