After describing the processes of history at work on ordinary
people (i.e. Bill's immediate ancestors) in Glimpses of Far Off
Things, the second volume finds Bill settling in at Topic Records
and collaborating with Ewan MacColl and Bert Lloyd, the architects
of the folk revival. It is set in the period of the Cold War, 'Ban
the Bomb' and lingering austerity. Yet the small pond of UK folk is
about to be stirred by breezes blowing from the USA. The folk
revival was more advanced over there, and the influx of US
visitors, the craving for diversity generated by the Stateside
Hi-Fi craze, the irresistible rise of Lonnie Donegan and skiffle,
all cleared the path for the UK folk revival proper. It becomes
clear with Horizons For Some that the author's mission is to return
its cultural inheritance to a nation that has somehow mislaid it,
and may indeed be running the other way in hot denial. It also
shows how tradition is not set in stone, but infinitely adaptable.
The present volume anatomises how the folk demotic was influenced
by the so-called special relationship. In his quiet way, Bill was
central to these developments. Sounding the Century is rich in
character studies of the remarkable people Bill (and the author)
encounter, and wonderfully conveys the joy and absurdity of it all.
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