Trevor Beales - folk singer's songs from the attic come to light!

"Self-effacing but ambitious" - a friend describes Trevor Beales, the folk singer from England, who played in a band, and afterward solo, but never really managed to get a break. It's about to change, perhaps - this week an album of his songs recorded between the ages of 18 and 21 in the attic bedroom he lived in as a child is coming out. 'Fireside Stories (Hebden Bridge Circa 1971-1974)' is "an album of fluid, finger-picked folk blues that recalls Bert Jansch and Michael Chapman. On the album, Beales counters clear technical rigour on the guitar with an unassuming deftness; his voice is as light and melodic as it is rich and warm. The whole thing is delivered with a palpable, Nick Drake-like intimacy". Read the sad and lovely story at the Guardian.