Finding some groundless, fleeting joy at the end of a very soggy rainbow, Mike Waterson concludes Bright Phoebus – the giddy 1972 ensemble piece he fronted with his younger sister, Lal – with a little ...

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FIRST released in 1972 but shoddily pressed and soon withdrawn, Bright Phoebus, an album of extraordinary songs by Lal and Mike Waterson of the English folk dynasty, gained fabled status as a lost ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1972, Lal and Mike Waterson's beautiful and seductively strange Bright Phoebus caused a minor folk ripple before the album seemingly disappeared for ever. The brother and sister died in 1998 ...

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