“Place is often important in folk music; Dorset and Ninebarrow are a case in point. Named after a down in the Purbeck hills, the duo of Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere draw inspiration from the county’s beauty and history. This fourth album intertwines originals that hymn Dorset’s hills, the work of Victorian poet William Barnes and a pair of sea shanties (la mode du jour in young circles). The ”
