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The Rails are a new duo specialising in folk-rock, although the term “new” is used advisedly. The male half of the pair has been playing guitar for long enough to have been hailed a “teenage prodigy” after working with everyone from Son Volt and the Pernice Brothers to Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Davies, the Pogues and the Pretenders (Mojo called him a rock Zelig, a neat way of capturing his ubiquity). He even recorded a solo album for Heavenly, prompting Nick Hornby to describe him as “an unearthly cross between James Burton, Peter Green and Richard Thompson”.
Talking of Richard Thompson, the female half of the Rails is vaguely related to him, and by vaguely we mean she’s his – and Linda Thompson’s – daughter (as well as Teddy Thompson’s sister, we have just ingeniously surmised). It was Hornby who gave Walbourne his pass into British folk-rock’s foremost dynasty when he introduced him to La Thompson. Through her he met Kami when they both worked on Linda’s 2007 album Versatile Heart – and they later recorded together, before going on the Rails, as Dead Flamingoes. Her own CV is pretty full, including stints touring with Sean Lennon and Bonnie “Prince” Billy and issuing her own solo album, Love Lies, in 2011.
 Fair Warning (produced by Edwyn Collins) features covers and originals that give traditional folk music a contemporary edge. The LP is so stunning that Island have resurrected their legendary Pink Label (home of John Martyn, Nick Drake and Fairport Convention) especially for them.


Verenigd Koninkrijk
Folk
Label: Mighty Village


01. Bonnie Portmore (02:34)
 02. Breakneck Speed (04:02)
 03. Jealous Sailor (03:31)
 04. Younger (04:05)
 05. William Taylor (04:00)
 06. Panic Attack Blues (03:40)
 07. Send Her To Holloway (04:37)
 08. Grace Of God (03:53)
 09. Fair Warning (04:01)
 10. Borstal (04:17)
 11. Habit (02:58)