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    13-track, CD album. Comes in a card, laminated gatefold sleeve with track-detail insert. It has a running time of approximately 47mins.

    "It certainly doesn't disappoint" Andrew Young - Terrascope

    "this is not traditional folk music, but then neither is it modern folk music, nor prog, nor ambient (nor any other labelled genre). That said, given the different emphases in each track, there are aspects of each. In many ways, though, it could be said that the album is more traditional than most folk music" - Mike Wistow folking.com


    A New Broom Sweeps Clean!
    DUIR release a re-imagining of their ‘classic’ 2007 album. Remastered by COMPUTER coalwood, 'The Stout Guardian of the Door’ has received a spring clean and its re-release adds further weight to the expanding DUIR catalogue.

    Originally started in the autumn of November 2003, shortly after the release of 'A Giant' by The Sons of T.C.-Lethbridge. Stout Guardian was based upon observations made on fieldtrips to places of interest in Lincolnshire. The recordings take the form of a journey from Terry Welbourn's birthplace in Grantham, north; along the limestone escarpment known as the Lincoln Edge, to the River Humber.

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The village of Dragonby boast a curious freak of nature - a stone dragon. A sand blown petrified stream is responsible for the odd occurrence known as the sunken church, or the stone curtain.

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“Celtic myth tells of a time when Britain was plagued by a strange May Eve scream. It transpires that two subterranean dragons caused the scream during an annual battle. They were soothed by the sinking of mead into a pit, dug through the centre of the earth.”

Here I stand on Sheffield’s Hill, my northward journey along the Jurassic Way, almost complete.
But before I triumph at Humber’s edge I pause at the village of Dragonby, in awe of a natural occurrence.
Snaking through the long, wire-like grass and around hawthorn bush through shade, the dragon’s head emerges into brilliant sunlight and rests peacefully at my feet. No billowing of smoke, no chaotic roar, just peaceful slumber on this springtime day.

But flesh and blood play no part here, for my dragon is stone-cold,
sober and benign – a brilliant freak of nature.
A sand-blown stream, petrified on limestone slopes has given birth to this stone curtain, the sunken church –known locally as ‘Tufa’.

I am astounded that a connection has never been made, between this natural phenomenon and the nearby prehistoric settlement of Risby Warren. How could the ancients, not have perceived the ‘dragon’ as sacred? Surely the dignified separation that exists between the camp and this megalithic edifice underlines this sanctity?

This ridgeway track forms part of the natural progression south to the great chalk exposed ‘dragon’ on the banks of Uffington Camp. Was this megalithic occurrence from the mid-lands an inspiration to the Uffington dragoons of yore?

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from The Stout Guardian Of The Door (Remastered), released April 20, 2020
Music and Words by Brighton/Welbourn

TEMPLAR Brighton: Acoustic Guitar and Cello
welbourn TEKH: Spoken Word

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DUIR! is a musical collective based in the East Midlands, UK that utilise spoken word, music and song to bring alive the folk memories of Lincolnshire and its environs. Their inspiration stems from myths, legends, folk-tales and topographic features of this rural country.
DUIR! comprise of, Simon Brighton, Stephen Coalwood and Terry Welbourn.

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