Enchanted Way

His heritage is Welsh, English and Scottish and the rare, haunting nature of his voice is ideally suited to the repertoire, but until now David Hobson has never recorded an album of music from the British Isles. Backed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey, and with all-new arrangements by Jessica Wells, the album was recorded in the heat of inspiration, with David and the MSO being joined by Australian music legend (and friend) Paul Kelly, the Flinders String Quartet, and a host of leading folk musicians.

Irish classics like ‘Carrickfergus’, ‘She Moved Through the Fair’, and ‘Raglan Road’ (a line from which provides the album’s title) are included alongside quintessential Scottish ballads like ‘Loch Lomond’ and ‘Skye Boat Song’, and English favourites ‘Bushes and Briars’ and ‘Foggy Foggy Dew’.