From Spring onwards next year I shall be working on my first solo album (used to sing with Jinks' Stack)with a number of musicians including Tim Van Eyken, string sections etc etc.

I have masses of material which I am able to arrange and record but would welcome the thoughts of all you out there. I'm particularly interested in "bridgeing" the gap between what is normally accepted as the standard unaccompanied trad. performance style and the classical arrangements by Williams, Holst, Britten etc of song and music.

Have you any ideas about material which would fit the pastoral mode of folk song. Songs from the tradition which conjour up visions of Constable paintings etc etc.