Artist: Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
Hometown: Cambridge, England
Song: “Polly O Polly”
Album: Ink of the Rosy Morning
Label: Topic Records
In Their Words: “Many moons ago I travelled to a storytelling festival in Wenlock Edge and David Holt dropped into the bus for tea and stories and sang this song with his banjo. I was immediately struck by the economy of the storytelling and the dark, menacing melody. He gave me a cassette which I played to death. Some years later I heard him and Doc Watson play this at Newport Folk Festival. I never ‘played it out,’ but Ben immediately knew how to bring it to air.” — Hannah Sanders
Photo Credit: Rosie Hardy
