Karine Polwart
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Biography
[Edit]From Banknock in Stirlingshire, Scotland, Karine Polwart was a late developer in musical terms; she was nearly 30 before she became a professional, nervously launching a career initially built on traditional Scots music, for which she showed such natural aptitude. She also began putting her faith in her own songs and later remodeled herself as a singer/songwriter. Many of the songs she subsequently wrote were drawn from her experiences as a social worker specializing in domestic and child abuse cases for the Scottish Aid women's movement. She'd previously earned a politics and philosophy degree at Dundee University, worked in a primary school and played in a variety of semi-pro bands before coming to more prominent attention in the groups Malinky and MacAlias. Malinky, in particular, gained a strong following after two well-received albums, Last Leaves (2000) — which includes her first recorded original song, the trad-styled "The Dreadful End of Marianna for Sorcery" — and "Three Ravens" (2002), on which her subtly emotive vocals were a key ingredient. The MacAlias duo with Gill Bowman also showcased her talents across a broader musical horizon, encompassing both her and Bowman's original songs alongside Robbie Burns and the Scottish tradition. Their album High Wired (2000), which includes one of Polwart's signature country-flavored songs, "John C Clarke," is much underrated. She also spent 18 months touring with the legendary Battlefield Band following the illness and subsequent death of Davy Steele and was featured on their 2001 album Happy Daze.
After six years as lead singer with Malinky she reluctantly quit in 2004 to concentrate on her career as a singer/songwriter following the release of her debut solo album Faultlines. She was full of misgivings, unsure whether her new contemporary approach would find favor with audiences used to hearing her sing traditional material. "It was mad to give in my notice to Malinky because I didn't know if the solo thing would work and I had nothing else to fall back on but I just felt I had to give it a go," she says. Initially the signs weren't good, but a plethora of nominations at the 2005 BBC Folk Awards gave her a massive boost. She ended up winning three awards, for best new act, best album and — most importantly to her — best song, for her moving depiction of a woman devastated by her partner's alcoholism, "The Sun's Comin' Over the Hill." From that point her career took off in spectacular fashion as she made dents in mainstream radio and she played bigger concerts, backed by a band who included Inge Thomson on accordion, Kevin McGuire on bass, brother Steve Polwart on guitars, and Canadian husband Mattie Foulds on drums. Her second album, Scribbled in Chalk (2006) followed a similar pattern of graphic story-songs encompassing tough topics such as sex trafficking and the holocaust yet were couched in strong melodies and immaculate song structures. She again took home the award for best song (for "Daisy") at the 2007 BBC Folk Awards, and spent most of the rest of that year on maternity leave after the birth of her son Arlo. However, that December she issued a sparsely-arranged album of predominantly traditional material entitled Fairest Floo’er. The sole original composition on the release was the closing track, “Can’t Weld a Body” which had initially been featured as part of the BBC’s revival of the radio ballads series in 2006. “Firethief” — a pensive song from the same radio show - also eventually appeared on Polwart’s well-received fourth album, 2008’s This Earthly Spell. Her second child, Rosa was born in mid-2010, a year which also saw her collaborate with the Edinburgh-formed contemporary folk trio Lau on the Evergreen EP. Following a break from the studio, she returned in 2012 with Traces, another confident set of original material which benefited from the innovative production techniques of The Unwinding Hours’ Iain Cook.
Title: Still As Your Sleeping
Artist: Karine Polwart, Dave Milligan
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: This Earthly Spell (Expanded Edition)
Artist: Karine Polwart
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Faultlines
Artist: Karine Polwart
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: Darwin Song Project
Artist: Mark Erelli, Karine Polwart, Chris Wood, Jez Lowe, Rachael Mcshane, Emily Smith, Krista Detor, Stu Hanna
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Scribbled In Chalk
Artist: Karine Polwart, Pippa Murphy
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk, Folk
Collections
Title: Cool As Folk
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Far Far from Ypres
Genre:
Title: The Songs of the Radio Ballads
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Steele The Show
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan : A Folk Tribute
Genre: Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 8
Genre: World Music, Celtic, Folk
Title: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 9
Genre: World Music, Celtic, Folk
Title: Favourite Scottish Songs
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Songs from Inspire!
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Rough Guide to Celtic Women
Genre: World Music, Celtic
Title: Rough Guide to Scottish Folk
Genre: World Music
Title: Beginers Guide To Scotland
Genre: World Music
Title: The Flooers o' the Forest
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Ballads of the Book
Genre: World Music
Title: The Rough Guide To Celtic Women (CD1)
Genre: Celtic
Title: Folk Awards 2013
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist, Celtic
Title: The Rough Guide To Scottish Music
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Cambridge Folk Festival Celebrating 50 Years
Genre: Blues, Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Welcome Aboard: Advanced Rock Box (CD4)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Amphetanarchy: Hard Rock Cafe (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Free Spirit. Advanced Rock Collection 2020 (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Featuring albums
Title: Decade: The Best of Lau (2007 - 2017)
Artist: Lau
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Return To Y’Hup
Artist: Raymond MacDonald, Citizen Bravo, Raynold Macdonald
Genre: Indie Rock