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Article: Enoch Kent I'm a Working Chap.(Sound Recording Review)
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- January 1, 2003
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Enoch Kent has a long history as a performing folk singer. First in his native Scotland, and in England, where he was a founding member, with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, of the Singers Club, and, since the 1970s, in Canada. On this quietly powerful and very compelling CD, Kent performs traditional songs and a variety of contemporary songs, including some of his own, which are steeped in the Scottish tradition.
Kent opens with the title track, his adaptation of a traditional song that he found in a book. In this song, Kent strongly identifies himself as a man who is well aware of the struggles that generations of working class people ...