Songwriter of the Year – Spiral Earth Awards 2014.

Criticised by an art school lecturer as having “a remarkable eye for trivia”, Chris Wood’s love of small things has made him one of England’s most vivid and arresting song writers. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables.

Joan Armatrading presented Chris with the 2011 BBC Radio Two Folk Singer of the Year award before inviting him as special guest onto her Autumn 2012 tour. They played 51 cities and Wood found himself eavesdropping on conversations from pound shops to tea rooms, army recruiting centres to hotel saunas collecting the poetry of recession. His response is None The Wiser, a fourth solo album, released in summer 2013. With humble hymns and sweeping statements from Alzheimer’s to William Blake, Wood lovingly takes the pulse of his homeland in what could be his best album yet.

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