(10 January 1934 – 9 August 2013)
Louis Killen was one of the most widely influential musicians of the folk revival and a key voice of English traditional song. He was a hard-core, unadulterated folksinger whose passionate delivery was matched by a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of the songs and the working people who made them. Born and raised in the heart of the industrial North East of England, he came early to a love of folk music.

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