Tim Kirby "To Milk The Cow"

Tim Kirby is a songwriter, from England, and also in Naseby Crossing - http://www.nasebycrossing.com/

Melodic, honest, passionate, accessible - these are the words people use to describe Tim's music.

Writing since an early age - Tim gave up trying to read music and developed his own dot notation and wrote his own music much to the chagrin of his violin teacher.

His band Naseby Crossing formed about four years ago, and the band have since played FolkThing , Folk on the Water and Glastonbury Festival [and many local pubs!] in their wage to get the songs out and heard to as many as possible. 

"While I don't go to reverbnation often, I'm particularly glad that I did today, and heard you. What a fine group you are, voices, arrangement, and spirit that swept me along, like the great old sea  chanties . I look forward to hearing more of your music" - Jo  Mapes , Folk Singer and Chicago Sun Times Art & Culture Critic.

"My music has been variously described as 'Alt-Folk', 'Edgy-Roots' or 'New-Acoustic'. "That doesn't matter. What matters is what it means to You, the listener. You're the person that I write and sing these songs for.

"Some sound that they might have been written 300 years ago - 'You Get to Milk the Cow' as an example - but I would hope that the message is ever-more apparent and just as pertinent today.

"And the creative process? A dissatisfaction with the status quo. I try to get a new twist on things, I'm an agent-provocateur, needling to get things done, things changed because we most certainly cannot sustain the way that we are living at the moment. There literally will be nothing left for our children.

"And as I write, various themes become apparent - emigration, the loss of skills and knowledge of how to make things, the dumbing down of the masses by TPTB , an apparent burning lack of salvation save that supposedly provided by the State, and finding eventual self-salvation - you're the person that has to live with themselves. But then you have the ultimate juxtaposition - serious subjects but with damn' good tunes - ear worms!"