New Book Review: Stuart Cantle: A life in Song

Subject: Review: New Book thankyou
From: GUEST,Jan Cantle
Date: 21 Jun 19 - 06:03 PM

I have been working on a book of my husband's songs since he died last year/ It is today available via Amazon and I want to thank you all for the help you have given me with finding the lyrics to many of the songs.
I am not sure if I am allowed to advertise it, but just in case I am,it is called Stuart Cantle: A life in Song and contains a bit of music history, a bit of biography and the words to something like 150 songs. It is also available to borrow through Kindle Unlimited.

Subject: RE: New Book Review: Stuart Cantle: A life in Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 19 - 07:17 PM

Hi, Jan -
We don't want people to get too "commercial" in hawking their wares, but we do want Mudcatters to know about books and recordings and other items related to music that have come out on the market.
Please do tell us more about the book and how to get it.
I changed the thread title to include the title of the book.
-Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-

Subject: RE: New Book Review: Stuart Cantle: A life in Song
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 19 - 06:54 PM

Thank you so much Joe.
The book is available through Amazon .com At the present it is only available in digital form. Log in to Amazon, then go to Kindle books and put Stuart Cantle: A life in Song in the search engine. You should be able to preview it before buying. You can also borrow it through Kindle Unlimited - Amazon's library service.


I met Stuart in a folk club in Shipping Sodbury - just outside Bristol, England. He sang mostly solo songs, but also in a group of 3. Stuart was expert on the songs of the American prison systems - not quite an English Alan Lomax. He also sang a wide variety of folk songs, blues, jazz, work songs and shanties.

The book is in 3 parts - a small biography section, a history of music section and then the main part is the songbook.
Wherever possible I have contacted people to get permission to use the words. I have left on each song that I could get details for where I found it. There are only words here, not music.

Stuart got dementia 4 years ago, and as his memory deteriorated, he asked me to make a collection of his songs. He died in September 2018 . I showed the original song book to a publisher/folksinger, and she suggested I augmented it and here it is now.